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Tyler Robinson Smirks and Swaggers in Court, Showing No Remorse for Murdering Charlie Kirk

It's almost as if he likes his chances at trial.

Tyler Robinson, accused in Charlie Kirk killing, smirks and chuckles during first in-person court appearance, with family in tow
...
Thursday's hearing was the first time Robinson was physically present and seen in court. Prior hearings were virtual.
Robinson looked unfazed by the grim charges he faces -- which accused him of brutally shooting the 31-year-old Kirk on Sept. 10 during a Turning Point USA talk at Utah Valley University in front of a crowd of thousands.

Why is this man smiling?

Because he knows he won't be convicted. He has leftist supporters who want to reward him for murdering Charlie Kirk, and he has members of the pseudoright -- Candace Owens acolytes -- who think he was framed by the Deep State to cover up Erika Kirk's murder of her husband.

So get ready for the acquittal. It's coming, and Tyler Robinson knows it.

And don't think "At least the acquittal will finally convince Candace Owens to stop with her insane grifting practices." No, it won't. She's smile, she'll laugh, and she'll say, "You see, I was right! The acquittal proves it was Israel and Egyptian Planes who killed Charlie Kirk!"

🚨: JUST IN: Charlie Kirk’s assassin Tyler Robinson strolls into court SMIRKING like a man who didn’t just destroy a family, steal a father from precious children, and attack an entire movement.

First time seeing him in person… and he’s proud of it.

No remorse. No humanity.… pic.twitter.com/GhFxPYkhuX
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) December 11, 2025

For months, Candace Owens has been claiming that officials at TPUSA were covering up the assassination-- because they were in on it from the start. Owens claims they're hiding video tape that only they have which would prove that the lethal shot wasn't taken by Tyler Robinson, but from someone much closer to Kirk, both in terms of physical proximity and close personal relationship. Her "mommysleuths" are obsessed with the idea that a 30-06 bullet should have been seen visibly impacting the wall behind Kirk, therefore, he wasn't killed by a rifle bullet. Must have been a pocket pistol carried in, who knows, maybe a.... purse?!

Owens has pretended she was not accusing Erika Kirk as being part of the assassination plot, even as she accused Erika of covering up the murder. But of course, only someone directly involved in her husband's murder would have any interest in covering it up.

After showing the patience of a saint and letting this diseased toxic lunatic smear her as a husband-murderer for three months, Erika Kirk has finally had enough and told Candace Owens to STOP.

The cruelty that has been heaped on Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika, since his assassination three months ago has been unrelenting.
First it was leftist ghouls cheering on his cold-blooded murder, in front of a crowd of 3,000 people at the first stop of his Turning Point USA "American Comeback Tour" outdoors on the campus of Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
The ghouls gloried in the death of the young father of two, mimicked the instant the bullet hit his throat, created T-shirts with his image and gushes of blood to celebrate the moment his voice was silenced.
...
But what has been far worse than the leftist haters are right-wing-adjacent grifters and nuts pushing wicked conspiracy theories about Charlie's murder, pointing the finger at his colleagues, friends and even Erika herself.
These fantasies have been peddled primarily by former prominent TPUSA luminary Candace Owens on her hit podcast, which gets more than 40 million views for her wildest rants.
She has claimed Israeli Mossad agents, men in maroon shirts, the US military, Egyptian planes, Jewish donors and the French government are somehow complicit.

She also claimed some kind of Mormon cult centered around... bee worship might have had a hand in it.

She endlessly plays videos of that awful day and theorizes about the "exit wound" or lack thereof.

See, if there's no exit wound, that means that one of Charlie Kirk's own staffers must have shot him from the stage using a lower-powered pistol bullet.

Just asking questions?
Worst of all, she torments Charlie's widow by suggesting in a disingenuous "just asking questions" way that Charlie was "betrayed" by the people who loved him most.

Do you know this next part? Her "proof" that Charlie Kirk was "betrayed" by those closest to him is... a dream.

She claims that Charlie Kirk cane to her in a dream and told her to smear her friends and wife as conspiracists in his murder.

Her proof?
A dream.
"I had a very vivid dream whereupon Charlie told me that he had been betrayed."
She has thrown suspicion on Charlie's pastor, his chief of staff, his chief operating officer, his spokesman, the camera guy, you name it.

She plays clips of their reactions the moment Charlie was shot and claims they looked guilty.
She is suspicious that TPUSA supposedly won't give her their footage of Charlie's murder that she laughably claims she needs so she can "debunk all these internet conspiracies."
"Everything about this is wrong," she said.
"I helped to build that organization, so I am almost the perfect person to discern what is normal and what is abnormal."
She also claims: "I've chosen to be on the side of goodness and truth no matter what the cost is."
Her daily tantalizing drip feed of absurdities cashing in on her former friend's death has made her millions of dollars.

Finally, Erika Kirk broke her self-imposed silence -- trying to let Candace Owens' hatred, jealousy, and narcissism just burn itself out naturally, only to realize it would never burn out because the money is too good -- to tell Owens to stop.

She didn't name Owens, but it's clear who she's talking about. (Owens herself says it's clear that Erika is calling Owens out.)

Finally, on Wednesday, Erika Kirk erupted in a controlled demolition of Owens and all who amplify her toxicity.
"This is righteous anger, because this is not OK. It's not healthy. This is a mind virus," she told Harris Faulkner on Fox News' "Outnumbered" program in an appearance to promote the publication of her husband's final book, "Stop, in the Name of God."
"I want justice for my husband, for myself, for my family, more than anyone else out there. But here's my breaking point on that. Come after me, call me names, I don't care.
"Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever."
"But when you go after ... the people that I love, and you're making hundreds and thousands of dollars, every single episode going after the people that I love [saying] because somehow they're in on this? No."
With courage and graceful intensity, she explained why she so far has remained silent in the face of ever more cruel clickbait: "My silence does not mean that somehow, Turning Point USA, and all of the handpicked staff that loved my husband -- and my husband loved them -- is somehow in on it."

Remember, she patiently allowed Candace Owens to defame her for months to let her burn it out of her, and now that silence is taken as an admission she was in on it.

At one point, Erika turned to the camera and pointedly addressed the conspiracy theorists:
"Just know that your words are very powerful, and we are human. My team are not machines, and they're not robots. We have more death threats on our team and our side than I have ever seen ... What are we supposed to do? Relive that trauma all over again?"
The best part was that Erika never mentioned the name of the woman who TPUSA insiders say is afflicted by "first wife" syndrome.
They say Owens is consumed by jealousy that Erika has been appointed CEO of TPUSA, following Charlie's express wishes to the board and colleagues and captured on video.
"She is a woman scorned," one TPUSA insider said of Owens.
"She was iced out of TPUSA ... She was not close to Charlie -- he kept her at arm's length. He knew the best tack on her was to keep her on ice ... She was not invited to Charlie's wedding."

Owens has repeatedly claimed she wants to meet with TPUSA staffers to get to the "truth" and claimed she would go anywhere and debate anyone to prove her dream of Charlie Kirk is accurate.

TPUSA agreed to a public debate -- and then Owens made excuses and said that date wouldn't work for her. And nor would any other date.

...
At first, Charlie's family and colleagues decided to ignore the bile.
But last week, his inner team, who have been running his podcast since he died, finally invited Owens to come on the show and clear the air.
They have spent all week negotiating with her but say she keeps making excuses for why she can't go to their studio in Phoenix, including that there is a local "cartel" that wants to assassinate her.
She has also claimed that French President Emmanuel Macron -- who is suing her for defamation over her prolonged claims that his wife, Brigitte, is really a man -- has ordered her assassination.
Of course, she claims there's an Israeli in the assassin squad.

You might think that Erika Kirk telling her to stop might make her stop.

Why would you think that?

Well, because Candace Owens said she would stop if and when Erika Kirk told her to stop.

You see, for months, when people told Candace Owens that it was rotten to smear a widow as culpable in her husband's murder, she claimed that only two people could make her stop spinning her conspiracy theories about Erika Kirk -- her husband (or "husband," as other conspiracy theories posit), or Erika Kirk herself.

So... because Candace Owens is truthful and honorable and not motivated by insane levels of narcissism, entitlement, and belief that Erika Kirk should have put Candace Owens in charge of Charlie Kirk's organization, she immediately honored her promise and agreed to no longer spread conspiracy theories about Erika Kirk being an accomplice in her husband's murder.

Just kidding!

Erika Kirk did not say “please stop lying” in this clip. She said “please STOP” as in, shut the fuck up Candace. You’re literally beating on a widow because you can’t fucking STOP.

It takes a special kind of evil to do this. pic.twitter.com/oBsfoOLaqa
— The Misfit Patriot (@misfitpatriot_) December 12, 2025

Everyone acknowledges that Candade Owens is baselessly accusing Erika Kirk of having murdered her husband. Everyone, that is, but Megyn Kelly, who continues insisting the "brilliant" Candace Owens never said any such thing.

Owens now says it's "absurd" for Erika Kirk to whine about being smeared as a murderess.

Often-incoherent podcaster Candace Owens fired back at Erika Kirk as the widow finally addressed the conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie Kirk's death and Turning Point USA, claiming the widow "missed the mark" and accused her of using "the exact same emotional strategy deployed by BLM."
"It is a positively ABSURD notion that you cannot critique a 150 million dollar organization because the CEO says they are like a family, and are grieving," Owens railed on X.
"It is the exact same emotional strategy deployed by BLM in the wake of George Floyd's death, when I called out their shady financial dealings."
Erika Kirk has been publicly pushing back for the first time on rampant conspiracy theories flying around the internet by conservative activists about her husband's assassination -- among them Owens, a once close friend of Charlie's.
...
She's repeatedly gone after Erika, who was named CEO of Turning Point USA -- the massive conservative activist organization founded by Charlie.
Owens later attacked Erika on her podcast for not addressing the rumors publicly as the new CEO of the company, but as a mourning widow.
"It completely missed the mark for me. I am sorry. It just has. But the good news is that she is now un-murking the water in terms of her intentions with this massive political organization," Owens said on her podcast after Kirk's TV appearance.

What she means is that Erika Kirk, by telling Owens to stop defaming her, has confirmed that TPUSA was in on the murder plot all along.

This is why I have been so vitriolic about conspiracy theorists and their maniacal belief that anyone pushing back against the conspiracy theory is just further proof of the conspiracy theory being right. Every time I've railed against conspiracy theorists lately, I have been thinking of this ugly Low-IQ grifter whore.

I guess i should have said so.

When confronted by one of her own lunatic supporters about her promise to "stop" if Erika asked her to, Candace Owens, get this, prevaricates. She claims that Erika didn't tell her to stop, but to stop lying, and because she's not lying (she claims), she'll keep on doing what she does.

Except she lied right there, didn't she?

Not only is Candace Owens refusing to "stop" as she promised she would do if asked, but she's doubling down and attacking Erika Kirk more, accusing her of showing "no passion" in talking about the murder of her husband -- wink, wink -- and giving "ChatGPT answers" when accused of murder.

Another of Candace Owens' conspiracy theories is that Erika Kirk is hiding his body by not publicizing the location of his grave. Which she assumes would be immediately vandalized and desecreated by the left, forever. But no, this is further proof she is hiding the body to cover up her own involvement in his murder.

She says she is building a beautiful memorial for Charlie Kirk, which will be public. But she seems to, understandably I think, want to keep the location of his actual grave private.

Erika Kirk says she is in fact scared that the jury has been "tainted" by both left-wing support of left-wing killers and conspiracy theorists claiming that she is the Real Killer of her husband.

Erika Kirk and TPUSA haven't sued Candace Owens for defamation and intentional infliction of extreme emotional distress... yet. Owens should remember that when Alex Jones accused parents of children killed in a school shooting of pretending their kids had been killed, a jury absolutely destroyed him with a multi-billion dollar judgment. That is way too much, but Owens should keep in mind that when you accuse people who are the victims of a tragedy of being complicit in that tragedy, a jury can decide that your lies are worth billions of dollars.

Remember, Candace Owens is just "anti-Zionist" not anti-Jew you guys.

Allie Beth Stuckey
@conservmillen
Candace commented on my Instagram post saying I only disagree with her baselessly implicating Charlie's friends in his murder because my great-grandfather whom I never met was Jewish. Okay.
Also, apparently, she was Charlie's only true friend.
I have been extremely, explicitly clear that Charlie and I had a strong friendship that was completely professional. I'm grateful to be one of many that he shared stages and wisdom with over the years.
Charlie's inner circle -- his friends, his coworkers, his WIFE -- are the only ones who loved and knew him best and they are the ones we can trust to seek true justice on their behalf.

This woman had a great grandfather she never met who was Jewish so Candace Owens -- not antisemitic, mind you, just "anti-Zionist" -- accuses her of being "tribal."

Tucker Carlson decided to weigh in on the Jews Killed Charlie Kirk Conspiracy Theory, of course. The grifting potential is just too tempting.

He does his usual cowardly signalling that he likes the conspiracy theory without having the guts to sign his name to it. He says he supports Candace Owens in her search for "truth," and says that she is acting in good faith when she accuses Erika Kirk of arranging her husband's murder. Then he says he does not trust the FBI, thereby discarding the evidence against Tyler Robinson.

Tucker here doesn’t mention anything about the fact that Tyler Robinson was seen at the crime scene, left his DNA on the towel covering the rifle and the trigger, CONFESSED to the murder and outlined his motive to his trans lover, and was IDENTIFIED BY HIS OWN FAMILY.

This is… https://t.co/d4G2EqcLkG
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) December 11, 2025

I used to say "No, Tucker isn't just doing this for the money, he's a Nepo Baby and heiress (yes, I said heiress) to the Swanson frozen food fortune. He doesn't need the money."

Now I'm not so sure. It can't be a coincidence that Tucker Carlson always goes where the clicks are.

And it can't be a coincidence that the guests he keeps having on to spread propaganda just happen to be paid foreign agents.

Tucker's anti-Christian and pro-Islamist positions are becoming more and more apparent. https://t.co/lJhBDDo3p1
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 11, 2025

Tucker Carlson totally isn't taking money from Qatar, a country which infamously pays people off to say nice things about Qatar.

Posted by: Ace at 01:16 PM

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1 BLADE IS FIRSTIEST

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 12, 2025 01:18 PM (5IH8V)

3 Why? Did they finally call in an exorcist?

@disclosetv 2m
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Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 01:18 PM (mlg/3)

4 She didn't name Owens, but it's clear who she's talking about. (Owens herself says it's clear that Erika is calling Owens out.)

==

She did directly - in the upcoming CBS Townhall. I saw the clip !

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:19 PM (g47mK)

5 Egyptian planes?

Known Jewish country...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 12, 2025 01:19 PM (bss/y)

6 *Get ready for the AOS groyper contingent

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:19 PM (g47mK)

7 En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at December 12, 2025 01:20 PM (0sNs1)

8 This guy looks like a smarmy Fag.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:20 PM (Wg6v7)

9 Moar Code of Hammurabi!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (xcxpd)

10 >>>She did directly -- in the upcoming CBS Townhall. I saw the clip !

oh cool. I forgot that was coming.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (1wjle)

11 There's that Tucker clip again. So it'll be a shiplap thread soon enough.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (77rzZ)

12 "Owens should remember that when Alex Jones accused parents of children killed in a school shooting of pretending their kids had been killed, a jury absolutely destroyed him with a multi-billion dollar judgment."

That trial was a farce and railroad. This trial was the trial run for railroading political opponents. AJ was an easy target, sure. But of course it didn't stop there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (iFTx/)

13 Candace Owens will soon connect Charlie's death to Ancient Astronauts.

Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (SwyyQ)

14 She also claimed some kind of Mormon cult centered around... bee worship might have had a hand in it.

Utah -> Mormons -> Beehive State. It's all right there in front of you, sheeple!

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (3nLb4)

15 He's a rock start to the left, and he knows it; why shouldn't he smirk?
And then there are psychopaths on the so-called right like Candace swearing that he's innocent because it was really the French Foreign Legion what done it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (uWKK8)

16 Have they arrested or charged Squirrel Boy yet as an accessory?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)

17 There sure are a lot of terribly horrible people in this world.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (wtvvX)

18 Tucker's favorite bathroom is decorated in bamboo shitlab. Discuss.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (mlg/3)

19 I don’t know why Tucker is on the AmFest speaker list. He is buying a house in Dubai, isn’t he? Shock.

Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

20 Tucker and Candace are grifting morons.

Their stupidity and mendacity is exceeded only by their supporters.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:24 PM (1Nv0l)

21 Owens has to be one of the biggest attention whores I've ever had the displeasure of knowing.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (/HDaX)

22 >>>19 I don’t know why Tucker is on the AmFest speaker list. He is buying a house in Dubai, isn’t he? Shock.

I just heard that. " " " Buying " " " a house, right. He will be taking possession of it, let's leave it at that.

Another foreign government bribe for Mr. America First.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (1wjle)

23 Have they arrested or charged Squirrel Boy yet as an accessory?
Posted by: Bulg
---

They offered him an acorn to turn state's witness.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (1Nv0l)

24 I am what is popularly referred to as a Mormon, in reality a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Gotta say, the idea that we have secret bee worship section is a new one.

Certainly the bee is one of the many symbols we use, but worship it? Um, no. And the bee symbol itself is mostly tied to Utah and pioneer history; as the Church goes worldwide the bee is fading as far as any sort of relevance goes.

That said, the word "Deseret" is translated as honeybee, so if you see Deseret, it is associated with the bee.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (0Aoc4)

25 My wife was a Candace Owens fan so I get to hear WAY more about her than I'd like.

Frankly unless she's being spit-roasted wearing high heels and stockings and nothing else, I don't care about her or anything she says or does.

She's a con artist, a greedy grifter and very probably mentally ill. Which means the spit roasting scene is probably also fetish porn and not just regular porn.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (xcxpd)

26 I've been watching profound mental illness interviews from the 40s-70s on Youtube. Those poor people make the new Tucker and Ovens look crazy in comparison.

Posted by: Dr. Whatsamatta at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (oftw2)

27

Didn't the Utah governor say at some point "be kind"?

The shitstain will not be convicted.

Posted by: four seasons at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (3ek7K)

28 She's smile, she'll laugh, and she'll say, "You see, I was right! The acquittal proves it was Israel and Egyptian Planes who killed Charlie Kirk!"

I thought it was Jew Space Lasers? I can't keep these things straight.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (qIS88)

29 I thought this post was about Tyler Robinson.

Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (oraVG)

30 Mrs. Kirk maybe should have said, "Stop before I come over to your house and kick the crap out of you," but she's too much of a lady.

Posted by: huerfano at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (98kQX)

31 >>>21 Owens has to be one of the biggest attention whores I've ever had the displeasure of knowing.

she was always like this. She made herself some big controversy in high school and at the age of 18 or whatever gave a TED talk about her victimization. Her thirst for attention is Saharan.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (1wjle)

32 He smirks like a man who knows he never could have made that shot or make it 'bounce' or whatever is currently claimed.

...but meeting someone going by "Jack Ruby" will change his expression.

Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (T7fic)

33 Dana Loesch has a montage of Tucker denying he knows or has met various people followed by clips of him talking with these people. Dave Rubin just pointed out that Tucker has denied knowing him while revealing that they've each appeared on the other's show and Tucker wrote the blurb for his book. Conversely, Tucker claiming he's met people whom he never has. Bill Ackman is the latest example. (Ackman calls Tucker a "soulless POS".).

Tucker has also lied about his father's role in the CIA and also about being in a plane crash in Pakistan.

The nice way to put it, he's a serial fabulist.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (VnsnO)

34 "Tyler Robinson, accused in Charlie Kirk killing, smirks and chuckles during first in-person court appearance, with family in tow"

Why not? He doesn't think he did anything wrong. He thinks he's a hero, and incredibly tens of millions of Americans agree.

My prediction: This fudgepack beats the rap. I don't think it will even be close.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

35 I don’t know why Tucker is on the AmFest speaker list. He is buying a house in Dubai, isn’t he? Shock.
Posted by: Piper

Qatar.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (77rzZ)

36 Once acquitted, the psycho Left will make sure Robinson will never have to work a day in his life. He's a hero to them.

Posted by: brak at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (jGJov)

37 Also: Utah Valley, which is where Robinson's trial is being held, is absolutely NOT a hotbed of leftism. If they get a jury from Utah valley/Utah county, it should be pretty easy to get a conviction, and the state is pushing for the death penalty. And the legislature is under a lot of pressure to actually reform the appellate system so as to make sure these death penalties get carried out so someone doesn't just grow old and die in prison, as happened recently.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (0Aoc4)

38 I stopped watching when the Judge became 'overly concerned' the shackles on the murder were accidentally shown by a courtroom camera.

Yes of course you're right, Ace.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (7BRdR)

39
Are firing squads still done in Utah?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:27 PM (tgvbd)

40 He will be convicted.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (/+FOE)

41 He won't be acquitted.

He *may* dodge the death penalty.

Killing someone for their beliefs ain't gonna go down well in Mormonland.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (1Nv0l)

42 oh right, not dubai, but Doha, Qatar.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (1wjle)

43 This shit is crazy.

Posted by: Guy who think this shit is crazy at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (TbWk/)

44 FU Candace Owens!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (NpAcC)

45 35 I don’t know why Tucker is on the AmFest speaker list. He is buying a house in Dubai, isn’t he? Shock.
Posted by: Piper

Qatar.
Posted by: Bulg at December

Even better. Insert eye roll.

Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

46 29 I thought this post was about Tyler Robinson.
Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:26 PM (oraVG)

It started out like that but the mood all changed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (xcxpd)

47 she was always like this. She made herself some big controversy in high school and at the age of 18 or whatever gave a TED talk about her victimization. Her thirst for attention is Saharan.
Posted by: ace

Wasn't she somehow involved in the Gamergate thing, and that's what put her on the map?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

48 Candy O is like Major Tom floating round in a tin can far above the Moon. Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing she can do.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 01:29 PM (L/fGl)

49 Further, Robinson confessed, multiple times, to multiple people. Outside of some sort of jury nullification thing, he's gonna fry.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:29 PM (0Aoc4)

50 She also claimed some kind of Mormon cult centered around... bee worship might have had a hand in it.
===

It can be found in the Mormon Quarter of Jerusalem.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:29 PM (9ipOP)

51 Ace, thank you for the thorough roasting of those *grifters*. I'm sick to death of the "just asking questions" crowd who pretends they're on "our" side.

Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)

52 Utah does do firing squads if the perp requests it. It's not the default, but certainly an option.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (0Aoc4)

53 I thought Candace Owens was insane. Now I think she is flat evil. And incredibly jealous of Erika Kirk.

Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

54 I do want to see the evidence about the shot and the bullet. That one shot neck shot with no exit wound is...odd. Not impossible, Jim Cirillo has seen weirder stuff, but odd.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (xcxpd)

55 Tucker is just pathetic. His justification is unreal.
He's talking out of both sides of his mouth like Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (NpAcC)

56 50 She also claimed some kind of Mormon cult centered around... bee worship might have had a hand in it.
===

It can be found in the Mormon Quarter of Jerusalem.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:29 PM (9ipOP)

Ok, I laughed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (xcxpd)

57 I'm going to hell for asking this, but does anyone else think that Erika Kirk is ... well, strange? I don't for a minute believe that she was complicit in her husband's murder, and I cannot fathom the grief she is experiencing, but I find her speaking and mannerisms very odd in a sort of carefully calculated drama sort of way. I probably shouldn't even bring it up, but it's an observation that may or may not explain why Owens feels emboldened to defame her in such a way.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (bNf8H)

58 I don't buy an acquittal, he's just a lunatic jerk. And Candace lost her mind about the time she was fired from the Daily Wire. They knew something we didn't at the time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (dfIr7)

59 49 Further, Robinson confessed, multiple times, to multiple people. Outside of some sort of jury nullification thing, he's gonna fry.
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Heh, Rookie mistake.
-Zombie OJ Simpson, author of 'IF I did it'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:31 PM (Dv3i1)

60 I stopped watching when the Judge became 'overly concerned' the shackles on the murder were accidentally shown by a courtroom camera.

Yes of course you're right, Ace.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

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That's standard stuff. I believe SCOTUS weighed in on this at one point. Can't prejudice the jury.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:31 PM (1Nv0l)

61 That said, the word "Deseret" is translated as honeybee, so if you see Deseret, it is associated with the bee.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (0Aoc4)

Interesting. I always took the beehive symbol to be emblematic of industriousness...git 'er done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 01:31 PM (npFr7)

62 >>.Wasn't she somehow involved in the Gamergate thing, and that's what put her on the map?

I don't think so. She claimed she had been doxxed or defamed or something (irony!) so she wanted to create a site called "Social Autopsy" where poeple could dox the doxxers. Two left-wing women -- one of them, IIRC, the left-wing gamergate whore Zoe Quinn -- told her that was a terrible idea, because if you create a site where people can post unvetted defamatory material about internet "harassers," of course the harassers will just use the site to dox more victims.

That was 100% right. But Owens is a low-IQ narcissist who thinks that every stupid idea she has is brilliant, so she began spiraling out claiming these left-wing women were trying to trick her into abandoning her brilliant idea.

She was a left-winger then. She says she became "right wing" because these left-wing women tried to "trick" here.

She has never been right wing. She has always been a left-wing narcissist looking for attention and fame.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:32 PM (1wjle)

63 It's almost as if he likes his chances at trial.

Like with Fani Willis, it depends WHERE the trial is being held...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 01:32 PM (ynpvh)

64 I predict (and I am pretty good at this, since I predicted that Carlson will be buying property in Qatar months and months ago!) that Carlson will be expanding/branching out his so called "network" to terrorist outpost and Iran's money launderer Qatar. Home of Al Jazeera btw. Where he will be fed "guests" and "opinion leaders" to propagandize further. He is a piece in Qatar outreach and influence peddling, together with ongoing "investments" in US politicians.

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:32 PM (g47mK)

65 Everyone acknowledges that Candade Owens is baselessly accusing Erika Kirk of having murdered her husband. Everyone, that is, but Megyn Kelly, who continues insisting the "brilliant" Candace Owens never said any such thing.
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Done with Megyn's version of dissembling too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (9ipOP)

66 >>>And Candace lost her mind about the time she was fired from the Daily Wire.

she's always been a lunatic. See post 62.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (1wjle)

67 I think the Judge in this case has gotten marching orders: Make sure the trial is very fair, and then give him the death penalty, with no reason for an appeal to succeed. The judge is highly regarded as a fair judge, so I think this is going to be a by the book judicial execution.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (0Aoc4)

68 I do want to see the evidence about the shot and the bullet. That one shot neck shot with no exit wound is...odd. Not impossible, Jim Cirillo has seen weirder stuff, but odd.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

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Oh ffs this has been addressed over and over.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (1Nv0l)

69 57 I'm going to hell for asking this, but ...

Posted by: Frasier Crane

Depends, are you just asking questions?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (Dv3i1)

70 It was swamp gas reflecting light from Venus off a weather balloon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (D+mpw)

71 Certainly the bee is one of the many symbols we use, but worship it? Um, no. And the bee symbol itself is mostly tied to Utah and pioneer history; as the Church goes worldwide the bee is fading as far as any sort of relevance goes.

That said, the word "Deseret" is translated as honeybee, so if you see Deseret, it is associated with the bee.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:25 PM (0Aoc4)

I always liked the Beehive Highway signs.

who knew that they were signposts to secret rendevous points?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (uWKK8)

72 I do want to see the evidence about the shot and the bullet. That one shot neck shot with no exit wound is...odd. Not impossible, Jim Cirillo has seen weirder stuff, but odd.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

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Oh ffs this has been addressed over and over.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (1Nv0l)

Go on. It's on topic.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (xcxpd)

73 51 Ace, thank you for the thorough roasting of those *grifters*. I'm sick to death of the "just asking questions" crowd who pretends they're on "our" side.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)

Even have one or two around here, and an apologist or two. Can't win 'em all.

Posted by: Hopefully they're seen for what the really are at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (TbWk/)

74 Ace, thank you for the thorough roasting of those *grifters*. I'm sick to death of the "just asking questions" crowd who pretends they're on "our" side.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)
*******
This^
Thank you ace!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (NpAcC)

75 Don't forget Ben Shapiro. Same class.

Drop the charges and let nature take its course.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (cS1cw)

76 Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:32 PM (1wjle)

Thanks. So Candace was not involved in Gamergate, but the Gamergate woman was one of her "harassers." I knew there was some connection to Gamergate.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

77 Utah does do firing squads if the perp requests it. It's not the default, but certainly an option.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (0Aoc4)

Time to make wood chipper the default, then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (npFr7)

78 Bad news. In the Netherlands, the two young men who projected "WHITE LIVES MATTER" on a bridge in Rotterdam have lost their appeal and their six months prison sentence was reaffirmed. Dutch media are calling this a "light sentence".

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Talk about a divisive message!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (L/fGl)

79 What do Tucker and Megan have in common?

Both worked for FNC well past the point of knowing exactly what it was.

I pointed this out sometime ago and it was generally rarely enjoyed. But there are always clues, and sometimes they don't need Sherlock Holmes.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (/+FOE)

80 NOT THE BEES!

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (C24tU)

81 6 *Get ready for the AOS groyper contingent
Posted by: runner
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Some nics just like pulling people's chains here. That is an old AOS schtick and a tiresome one.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (WDjG6)

82 ok well I agree Owens and Carlson are god-awful but I don't think Tyler believes he'll get off.

I think he's just an evil son of a whore

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (emBoF)

83 So it just about the money and clicks with Tucker?

It's deeper. He fancies himself a daring iconoclast, someone with experience and history inside the Great Beast but who cut loose and has the guts and wherewithal to expose it. I surmise that no small part of his psychology is the fact he's an ex-alcoholic and needs the alternate "dry-drunk" fix or high supplied by his platform and rabble-rousing claims.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (VnsnO)

84 ...but I find her speaking and mannerisms very odd in a sort of carefully calculated drama sort of way.

I haven't seen much of her speaking, not even at Charlie's memorial but how would you act if you knew someone was micro-analyzing every word and movement you made looking for something, anything, to attack you over?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (3nLb4)

85 I used to say "No, Tucker isn't just doing this for the money, he's a Nepo Baby and heiress (yes, I said heiress) to the Swanson frozen food fortune. He doesn't need the money."

Now I'm not so sure. It can't be a coincidence that Tucker Carlson always goes where the clicks are.
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You mean Doha?

Oh sorry, I thought you said where the "bucks" are.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (9ipOP)

86 Didn't the Utah governor say at some point "be kind"?
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The "Republican" governor of Utah asserted that the Democrat Josh Shapiro would make a fine president.

Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (TN0g+)

87 Isn't it strange that the "just asking questions" crowd is always "just asking" the exact same questions that leftist jerkweeds are asking, and only those questions?

Very strange, I tells ya!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

88 Beehive, Bah!

Posted by: The Tinman at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

89 Is there anybody in the media that isn't insane?

Posted by: pawn at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (EMg+d)

90 I always liked the Beehive Highway signs.

who knew that they were signposts to secret rendevous points?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 01:34 PM (uWKK

Oh honey...

Posted by: Sticky situation ahead, 12 miles at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)

91 Yes, Alberta Oil Peon: The honeybee is a symbol of industriousness, hard work, and community. Which is why the Mormon pioneers adopted it, and it is the state symbol of Utah. But the word "Deseret" is a Book of Mormon word (originally tracing to Egyptian 'dsrt') that was explicitly listed as translating to the word honeybee.

As such, the word Deseret entered the greater Utah cultural area... and the original name for the territory that wanted to become a state was the territory of Deseret. Congress changed it to "Utah." And chopped down the boundaries. The beehive was the state symbol back then and still is now. The "University of Deseret" became the University of Utah, but the Deseret News is still one of the two leading newspapers in the state.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (0Aoc4)

92 Dutch media are calling this a "light sentence".
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Does Dutch media know anything about Dutch prisons?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (Dv3i1)

93 Guy! Owens is a piece of lefty trash grifter, like that Jasmine Crockett character !check this out : "My favorite thing about Candace is when she didn’t pay rent on her $3,550 per month luxury apartment so she got evicted… and then she decided to sue the landlord saying the apartment gave her “systematic yeast infections”… she lost and had to pay $21,300 plus legal fees.."

https://tinyurl.com/bdfv9pae

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:37 PM (g47mK)

94 Do not think he will be acquitted. Best he could hope for is a hung jury. He would need 3 hold outs. He is kind of ugly, so I don't see it happening.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 12, 2025 01:37 PM (wGerL)

95 . Dutch media are calling this a "light sentence".
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Racists

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:38 PM (/+FOE)

96 Candace worked for Ben Shapiro, who is very publicly Jewish. Candace and Ben had a big fight about something that got personal. It got so ugly that Ben said we can't work together, and being the boss he fired her.

Candace was so outraged and insulted that she decided that not only did she hate that Jew Ben Shapiro, she hated ALL Jews for All time, and she hated them so much that she decided that the "Final Solution" had actually been a pretty darn good idea. And she wanted to see it carried out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 01:38 PM (uWKK8)

97 Oh sorry, I thought you said where the "bucks" are.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Tell me more.
-- Pete Buttigieg

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)

98 Not sure if the jury is going to like a defendant with a smug, holier-than-thou attitude.

If his demeanor shouts out, "Yeah, I did it. Watcha gonna do about it?" then his chances may not be as good as his cockiness would suggest.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (ESVrU)

99 ***Tyler Robinson Smirks and Swaggers in Court, Showing No Remorse for Murdering Charlie Kirk
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This is why the Brits would draw and quarter people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (lQBYU)

100 I'm willing to believe, without evidence, that Candy has systematic yeast infections.

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (C24tU)

101 Go on. It's on topic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

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The bullet ricocheted off one of his top vertebrae and deflected down his spine, eventually smashing C4 or C5 or thereabouts.

He was dead on impact from his neck being torn out, but even without that he would have bee dead from the spinal injury.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (1Nv0l)

102 Robinson's lawyer was smiling and batting her eyelashes at him like she's a high school cheerleader and he's the star quarterback.

Posted by: American Barf Association at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (qUkBO)

103 68 I do want to see the evidence about the shot and the bullet. That one shot neck shot with no exit wound is...odd. Not impossible, Jim Cirillo has seen weirder stuff, but odd.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

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Oh ffs this has been addressed over and over.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:33 PM (1Nv0l)

Indeed. Ricochet off his body armor at the edge, up into his neck. It was plain to see in the vids that very day.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (ynpvh)

104 Again, this is the lefts moral vision, and they are imposing it with great enthusiasm as evidenced by this monster.

If the conservatives wish to survive and flourish, they must impose their moral vision or perish.

The time for talk is over, obviously.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (XV/Pl)

105 So, since Ben Shapiro has been mentioned...

...did y'all know that his sister has ginormous breasts?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

106 Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (VnsnO)

I read that in Tucker's serious voice, then I added his goofy laugh at the end.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (Dv3i1)

107 84 ...but I find her speaking and mannerisms very odd in a sort of carefully calculated drama sort of way.

I haven't seen much of her speaking, not even at Charlie's memorial but how would you act if you knew someone was micro-analyzing every word and movement you made looking for something, anything, to attack you over?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (3nLb4)

She's naturally going to be very cautious and measured considering the circumstances, and add in she's probably being constantly coached by attorneys, PR people and crisis communication consultants for obvious reasons. So it's not going to be like a freewheeling conversation at the pub on a Friday night.

Posted by: Considering the circumstances she's doing fine at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

108 Robinson looked unfazed

I prepared him well.

Posted by: His Therapist (you know he has one) at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (T7fic)

109 So, Erica v. Candice v. Megyn

One more and we could have a pretty watchable tag team mud wrestling event.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (uxVjF)

110 There is a full doc on the internet, looks like 2017, and landlord response. Docket number , everything.

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (g47mK)

111 I don't know if it's a great idea setting up the left's Führry as likely to get away with it. And I'm as pessimistic as the next guy, I completely understand where you're coming from. But when he's charged, and finally gets some measly manslaughter charge or something everyone will cheer, "he didn't actually get away with it!" And the truth is:

- he shouldn't have gotten away with it.
- leftists shouldn't be assassinating their opponents.
- leftists shouldn't be targeting their opponents for assassination
- leftists shouldn't be cheering the assassination of their opponents
- leftist's opponents should be free to engage in whatever debate they wish whenever and without fear of violence

But, instead, we will be glad that as we are all hunted down, one by one, and the entirety of the media cheer on their dogs, there is at least a chance a leftist somewhere will be prosecuted for it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (3uBP9)

112 105 So, since Ben Shapiro has been mentioned...

...did y'all know that his sister has ginormous breasts?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

She does?

Posted by: Kingdom of the Khazars at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (ynpvh)

113 As far as the bullet... wasn't the idea that the bullet hit the top of Kirk's bullet proof vest and ricochet up into his neck? That would seem to rob much of the energy, and change the trajectory, so if there was an "exit hole" wasn't it in the ceiling instead of the wall behind Kirk?

I could be totally wrong, of course... I haven't followed this particular conspiracy theory except I know that leftists use it, when they aren't gloating about Kirk being murdered.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (0Aoc4)

114 102 Robinson's lawyer was smiling and batting her eyelashes at him like she's a high school cheerleader and he's the star quarterback.
Posted by: American Barf Associatio

I wonder what she looks like in her furry costume.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (Dv3i1)

115 BTW "anti-Zionist" has been used up.

Don't bother, we know what you really mean and also you're a pussy without the courage of your convictions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (9ipOP)

116 Candace Owens and Jasmine Crockett, separated at birth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (lQBYU)

117 If I were a young guy I'd be embarrassed for everyone to know I sucked furry trans dick but I guess that's a popular thing to do these days.

Posted by: NCKate at December 12, 2025 01:40 PM (uQzkA)

118 >>"My favorite thing about Candace is when she didn’t pay rent on her $3,550 per month luxury apartment so she got evicted… and then she decided to sue the landlord saying the apartment gave her “systematic yeast infections”… she lost and had to pay $21,300 plus legal fees.."

Her Cup Foameth Over.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (IaZ7c)

119 The "Republican" governor of Utah asserted that the Democrat Josh Shapiro would make a fine president.
Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (TN0g+)

I saw that and he also chastised Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (VE6XX)

120 >>>I surmise that no small part of his psychology is the fact he's an ex-alcoholic and needs the alternate "dry-drunk" fix or high supplied by his platform and rabble-rousing claims.

i keep making the "dry drunk" point. I learned about that from Dan Riehl. I think it refers to an alcoholic who stopped drinking but who still has the quick temper his brain learned to have from being pickled for years at a time. Someone else told me it's when an alcoholic gives up the sauce but never addresses the problems that led to the alcoholism in the first place.

Remember when Andrew Sullivan went from being sexually rapt by George W. Bush to despising him? There is a type of political junkie for whom the only thing that matters is believing in some quasi-religious political ideology with a zealot's fury. It doesn't matter what is believed, just that the Believer Believes. Thus, Andrew Sullivan can go from writing "Mash Notes to Bush" on Monday to denouncing him as Satan by Saturday.

Same with Tucker Qatarlson, as Mark Levin calls him.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (1wjle)

121 Bold move suing your landlord for the clap.

Me? I would probably just take the antibiotics and keep quiet.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (1Nv0l)

122 Some nics just like pulling people's chains here. That is an old AOS schtick and a tiresome one.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:35 PM (WDjG6)

and get people in trouble, then claim to be a victim, like we say yesterday

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (g47mK)

123 Miller :

"Has Charlie's murder changed how you do things or were you already locked down pretty well before that?"

Musk:

"It certainly reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode. You make one mistake, and you're dead, and it only takes one mistake."

youtu.be/bz5Hjk40FD4?t=758

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (lQBYU)

124 Robinson's lawyer was smiling and batting her eyelashes at him like she's a high school cheerleader and he's the star quarterback.
Posted by: American Barf Association at December 12, 2025 01:39 PM (qUkBO)

Even Richard "The Nightstalker" Ramirez had groupies.

Posted by: Wimminz can be strange at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (TbWk/)

125 If this country had any balls this dude would already had his trial, conviction, and hung by the neck. But they will drag it out for years. And don't expect a death penalty for first degree murder. Because that would be cruel.

Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (G1OIb)

126
She has claimed Israeli Mossad agents, men in maroon shirts, the US military, Egyptian planes, Jewish donors and the French government are somehow complicit.

__________

She forgot the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, the Bilderbergers and the Elks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (tgvbd)

127 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Vincent Di Maio was America's leading gunshot pathologist and wrote the literal book on gunshot wounds used a key legal treatise on the matter. Mas and Jim Cirrillo (now deceased for about ten years) were good friends with Vincent.

Basically, high powered bullets depending on construction can do all sorts of seemingly weird twists and turns when they hit obstructions. The old Mark VII bullet from the Brits in 303 was a battlefield killer beyond its modest ballistics as is the 5.56 55 gr fmj. That is because when they hit any solid obstruction, bone, metal, even drywall in the case of 5.56, they become tumbling ass over teakettle aka keyholing--can happen internally shredding a body or by making truly large exit wounds. All depends on angle, force remaining in the bullet, force expended by entry, obstacles, etc. and meeting the requirement for enough ft pds to exit the human skin.

That is just for full metal jackets. Hunting bullets are often specifically designed to stay in teh body but cause immediate death because in and out means a long chase of a wounded animal. Considered inhumane.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (WDjG6)

128 119 The "Republican" governor of Utah asserted that the Democrat Josh Shapiro would make a fine president.

Shapiro is utterly useless

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (emBoF)

129 Speaking of Giant Breasts:

AT&T Lily is back in the News.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (IaZ7c)

130 Erika Kirk was never a public person but has been forced to be by the assassination of her fucking husband and now she's being knocked for not being naturally at-ease in public speaking?

I just uttered a profanity I had sworn off. What the fuck is wrong with some of you?

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (1wjle)

131 57 I'm going to hell for asking this, but does anyone else think that Erika Kirk is ... well, strange?
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (bNf8H)

Yes. At some point, the emoting needs to stop. You can be the grieving widow but not the CEO of a major organization at the same time. And calling for critics or Owens to "stop" was never going to work in Owens case nor pass muster in a free speech society. It only feeds the beast. In my view, she needs to assemble her team and calmly, impersonally, rationally expose Owens' lies and Owens herself (and how she reflects sicknesses in the culture). Also, to enunciate the qualities and virtues of her husband and by extension the value of Turning Point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (VnsnO)

132 My favorite thing about Candace is when she didn’t pay rent on her $3,550 per month luxury apartment so she got evicted… and then she decided to sue the landlord saying the apartment gave her “systematic yeast infections”… she lost and had to pay $21,300 plus legal fees.."

Her Cup Foameth Over.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:41 PM (IaZ7c)

Snizz Fizz

Posted by: That's super gross at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (TbWk/)

133 I am officially, and completely, retired.

I feel pretty good about that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (ExV1e)

134 As such, the word Deseret entered the greater Utah cultural area... and the original name for the territory that wanted to become a state was the territory of Deseret. Congress changed it to "Utah." And chopped down the boundaries. The beehive was the state symbol back then and still is now. The "University of Deseret" became the University of Utah, but the Deseret News is still one of the two leading newspapers in the state.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 12, 2025 01:36 PM (0Aoc4)

Thank you. I knew there is a Mormon connection to the word "Deseret". You see it all over Utah on various signs, and I see "Deseret Industries" on some buildings in AZ, too. I had assumed it was some antique variant of "desert", which was wrong.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (npFr7)

135 Erika Kirk and TPUSA should invoke the Annie Oakley stratagem and, in the courts, go after every libelous or defamatory claim made by Candice Owens.

Being silent until now is exactly what lawyers would have recommended if that was the plan. Perhaps it is.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (O7YUW)

136 I just uttered a profanity I had sworn off.

Gosh darn it?

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (C24tU)

137 Ace, you have to stop linking any Candace Owens videos...to make her irrelevant, you have to get folks to stop listening to her, either in support or hate. You just hit ignore to the grifter and make her useless to her payers and she'll drift away into nothingness.

For now, she keeps upping the lies and hate to our side b/c it's working to get us to respond. Our only response should be "Candace is a known grifter. She represents no one but her payers' interests."

Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (tOcjL)

138 59 49 Heh, Rookie mistake.
-Zombie OJ Simpson, author of 'IF I did it'
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:31 PM (Dv3i1)

Remember the father of the young man who was kilt alongside Nicole won a yuuge civil judgement against OJ and was able to take the rights to the book and changed the title to:

if I DID IT

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (QGaXH)

139 she was always like this. She made herself some big controversy in high school and at the age of 18 or whatever gave a TED talk about her victimization. Her thirst for attention is Saharan.
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yeah, when you see the list of websites and projects she's started---she is a serial grifter; wherever a dollar falls on the ground, Candace can be found.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (HXT0k)

140
Right on Ace!!!

Let's judge people by how they handle grief.

Humanity at it's best.

Posted by: four seasons at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (3ek7K)

141 117 If I were a young guy I'd be embarrassed for everyone to know I sucked furry trans dick but I guess that's a popular thing to do these days.
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Well, maybe he watched too much Tele Tubbies as a kid?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (Wg6v7)

142 Indeed. Ricochet off his body armor at the edge, up into his neck. It was plain to see in the vids that very day.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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His bodyguard said it ricocheted of his upper vertebrae and smashed into a lower one. Not off his vest.

It looks that way too. His paralysis pose after impact isn't something you would get from the neck wound alone. It suggested spinal damage.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (1Nv0l)

143 I heard the Furry boyfriend is in witness protection... I guess all the white supremacist's MAGA's want to kill him or something? I'm thinking the people who were behind this are the ones that would try to silence him... Takes off tin foil hat

Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (VE6XX)

144 Now I'm not so sure. It can't be a coincidence that Tucker Carlson always goes where the clicks are.

Yeah I will never believe that anyone won't do stuff for money just because they have money. Like Rockefeller said to the question how much is enough: "more."

But it doesn't have to be money, it could be ego, desire for connections and access, fame, etc. But the man has no principles and I think he's crazy too. That lunatic giggle during a funeral... dude.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (dfIr7)

145 This is the full complaint : https://tinyurl.com/4mrm8fjc

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (g47mK)

146 Candace Owens is sincerely not the hill to die on. She would watch you and your entire family burn for two penneth.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (/+FOE)

147 >>i keep making the "dry drunk" point. I learned about that from Dan Riehl. I think it refers to an alcoholic who stopped drinking but who still has the quick temper his brain learned to have from being pickled for years at a time. Someone else told me it's when an alcoholic gives up the sauce but never addresses the problems that led to the alcoholism in the first place.

I'm betting Tucker has slipped back into Pharma usage.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (IaZ7c)

148
I am officially, and completely, retired.

I feel pretty good about that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

_________

Did they tear your epaulets off and break your Ticonderoga #2 pencil over their knee?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (tgvbd)

149 >>>118 >>"My favorite thing about Candace is when she didn’t pay rent on her $3,550 per month luxury apartment so she got evicted… and then she decided to sue the landlord saying the apartment gave her “systematic yeast infections”… she lost and had to pay $21,300 plus legal fees.."

someone just told me about this! Apparently she's always suing people or being sued by people.

except now that she married a rich homosexual I guess she's not suing people as much. (Allegedly. Though I should say it is alleged an awful lot.)

Her gay beard (allegedly) husband should probably make sure that their finances are 100% separate or else Erika Kirk will take all of his money away too.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (1wjle)

150 130 Erika Kirk was never a public person but has been forced to be by the assassination of her fucking husband and now she's being knocked for not being naturally at-ease in public speaking?

I just uttered a profanity I had sworn off. What the fuck is wrong with some of you?
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:43 PM (1wjle)

Ace, some posters here are also paid to demoralize us...ignore them, too.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (tOcjL)

151 I am officially, and completely, retired.

I feel pretty good about that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Congrats! What bar will you be buying us drinks at?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:45 PM (77rzZ)

152 142 Indeed. Ricochet off his body armor at the edge, up into his neck. It was plain to see in the vids that very day.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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His bodyguard said it ricocheted of his upper vertebrae and smashed into a lower one. Not off his vest.

It looks that way too. His paralysis pose after impact isn't something you would get from the neck wound alone. It suggested spinal damage.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:44 PM (1Nv0l)

However it happened, he was assassinated by a lefty trans-loving furry.

Posted by: Kingdom of the Khazars at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (ynpvh)

153 if the state fails, will the Feds take over ?

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)

154 Candace Owens admitted to having Stage IV Mummycunt?

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (1wjle)

155 Candace’s conspiracies on plots to murder her are out and out funny. Macron and his secret assassin squad. Men in hoodies in the woods who have yet to be identified. Sharks. (Maybe I made that up). She is actually jealous she wasn’t the one murdered and wants to be murdered for attention, too! She is a narcissist and narcissists with fans and a platform are very dangerous things.

Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

156 Well done, used to have nic

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (/+FOE)

157 Shapiro is utterly useless
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Perfect!

Posted by: Deep State at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (qUkBO)

158 he was not wearing a vest

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)

159 If Robinson's lawyer is batting ger eyelashes at him she's an idiot. He likes cock

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (D+mpw)

160 I am officially, and completely, retired.

I feel pretty good about that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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Congrats!

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (1Nv0l)

161 I like how, after the revelation that almost all of the support for Tucker, Candace, Fuentes, et al., was oversea bot farms, the response of these grifters has been ... to pretend nothing changed and ignore that their "support" is bought and paid for.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:46 PM (HXT0k)

162 Tucker, Candace and next MTG, are vile human beings as is this murderer. I suppose you can stand on the side of evil for some notoriety and a few pieces of silver. But there ultimately a price for that;

“ No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”

Matthew 13:29-30

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2025 01:47 PM (OjHyA)

Gavin Newsom Admits That California Pays for Free Healthcare for Illegal Aliens

We already knew this, but Gavin Newsom admits it. As you know, in the propaganda media, no amount of evidence is ever enough to disprove a left-wing talking point. A point is only settled against a leftist if he admits it.

What is even more astounding is Regime Apologist Ezra Klein's reaction to this admission.

Newsom's admission doesn't cause Klein to say, "Well, it turns out Trump wasright when he said Democrat states pay for health care for illegals."

No, it causes him to re-assert that Trump "lies" about this, followed by praising Newsom for having the guts to make Trump's "lies" a reality.

If it's true... how is Trump "lying," Ezra?

Trump often lies about Democrats giving healthcare to undocumented immigrants. In California, Newsom actually did it. And defends it.

"I'm proud of that. I believe in universal health care."

But, he says, "we failed on the border. We need to own up to that." pic.twitter.com/5MFgK9tFQu
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 11, 2025

This is a work of art. This is their magic trick: Once they label something Trump said “a lie,”no amount of proof, no towering mountain of evidence, will force them to rethink https://t.co/23Jktsv7eb
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) December 12, 2025

As Charlie Cooke says: He did the meme.

It’s the meme in one tweet, and he almost certainly can’t see it. https://t.co/N1ZlTXUzC3 pic.twitter.com/WFcwU60iKw
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) December 12, 2025

It's just totally a "lie" that all Democrats plan to provide free health care to illegals.

For the left, the concept of lying is not dependent on whether or not someone tells the truth. It's not based on actions. It's based on status -- if you're an enemy of the left, you're a "liar" even when you're telling the truth. The truths you say "mislead" the public away from a Greater Truth -- race-based socialism managed by carefully-selected leftwing credentialed priests -- and are therefore "lies," in a deeper sense.

Posted by: Ace at 12:13 PM

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1 Newsome, what a maroon

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 12, 2025 12:14 PM (jvxGE)

2 Is it really a lie though?

Posted by: Costanza at December 12, 2025 12:14 PM (3uBP9)

3 "Free"

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (C24tU)

4 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

5 If I say I'm illegal can I get it free too?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

6 Also Purge California.

The whole West Coast frankly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

7 Costanza nooded, good man

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 12, 2025 12:16 PM (jvxGE)

8 Is it really a lie though?
Posted by: Costanza at December 12, 2025 12:14 PM (3uBP9)
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It's not a lie if YOU believe it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 12:17 PM (RnixX)

9 He does seem to be facing some...mental challenges.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

10
A lie can just be 'My Truth'.

Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2025 12:17 PM (Y8DZL)

11 it's that heat map, where liberals have the warmest feelings for the most distant (foreign) people.

it's super weird. I guess it's a manifestation of self-hatred? I dunno honestly.

but THAT is another important meme. it's something to always keep in mind.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (emBoF)

12 It's not a lie if you're a Democrat.

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (UnA8+)

13
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this!

So you do live in California!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (ZaZ9u)

14 A lie can just be 'My Truth'.

A load of unbridled horses*** >>> My truth

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

15 Gavin Gruesome sounds hoarse and strung out. Too many drugs? He'll be sounding like RFKJ in a few years.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

16 It must be exhausting for one's brain do these mental jumping jacks every day to justify to yourself that you're always right and that everyone else is "lying".

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (k9OZB)

17
btw, I created that "meme" a very long time ago here.

I called it the Democrats Argument Template and it originally went thusly:

1. It never happened.
2. Even if it did happen, so what?
3. Republicans do it, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (v6HoO)

18 I almost didn’t show up for this thread because the call was “nood Newsom” mouth vomit….. but here I am anyway playing through the pain. This admission by Hairgel is delightful

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (YobFY)

19 I'm feeling a little purgey.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (EyfuW)

20 Morning.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (1Yy3c)

21 I love how Newsome says "I did that". No, you greasy buttstain, the taxpayers did that.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

22 Before we wrap up talking about Buckley, willowed comment:

The William F Buckley vs Gore Vidal debate proves that leftists have been calling the right Nazis forever. Nothing new under the sun.

Buckley was ruled by the media to have lost the debate when he called Vidal a Fag. But Vidal IMO had already sunk too low when he called Buckley a Nazi. Buckley flew into a rage, and while he should have kept his cool I totally understand it.

The best revenge for the right, is that gore Vidal has faded into utter irrelevancy. At one point it was required to have his books on your self if you were a proper lefty. But no one cares about him anymore.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (gWBY1)

23 Ezra Klein?

Mr. "The Constitution is like over a hundred years old"? That Ezra Klein?

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (1Yy3c)

24 Michael Malice likes to say the media is factual, but not truthful. When applied to some things, that is accurate.

Then there are things that are neither factual, nor truthful.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (MZ+PY)

25 Good luck getting elected on that message. The American people spend a fortune on their health care and illegals getting it free boils their blood.

Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (eIzlH)

26 Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this!

So you do live in California!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Worse; I'm fleeing Tampon Tim

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (jvxGE)

27 Democrats lie. They've done so ever since Bill Clinton "moderated" the party by lying about their intentions. I'm open to arguments about the party being misguided but well-intentioned through the 1980s, but since then the Clintonian rot has been penetrated by the Obama fungus which is putrefying after Biden shat on it.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 12:21 PM (Dg7ng)

28 I pray the AWFL's don't come out in droves and elect Newsom to become POTUS.

The way things are going this just might happen.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)

29 the Clintonian rot has been penetrated by the Obama fungus which is putrefying after Biden shat on it.

You really need to find a way to work corruption and moldering into that sentence.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

30 Doublethink (TM)

Orwell was apparently making a prophecy, not a warning.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (cuae1)

31 Hairsplitting is a typical tactic. Trump lied. He said 20 million illegals came in the last four years. It's only 17 million.
Trump lied. The Haitians aren't eating the cats and dogs, just the geese and the ducks at the park.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (s19xO)

32
5 cents spent on a noncitizen is 5 cents not spent on a needy American.

Of course the dude heading the San Francisco Homeless department has a fat salary and bennies and a secratery with a good salary and bennies, then the rank an file have salaries and bennies. Is it a wonder why the problem exisits?

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (cS1cw)

33 The best revenge for the right, is that gore Vidal has faded into utter irrelevancy. At one point it was required to have his books on your self if you were a proper lefty. But no one cares about him anymore.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (gWBY1)

I’ve always thought Buckley was fantastic in that moment:
Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (YobFY)

34 Trump LIES!!!

Name one.

He said Democrats give your taxes to illegals.

But that's what they do, here are some examples.

Sure, but Trump didn't know that.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (/+FOE)

35 Getting your healthcare paid for at the ER by the government is not the same as getting your healthcare paid for by the government not at the ER.

See the difference?

Posted by: huerfano at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (98kQX)

36 It's just totally a "lie" that all Democrats plan to provide free health care to illegals.

Bcuz it's still $20, same as in town.

Posted by: parrots at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (Vjo66)

37 28 I pray the AWFL's don't come out in droves and elect Newsom to become POTUS.

The way things are going this just might happen.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)

It's incredibly stupid, but they'll vote for him for just his hair alone.

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (UnA8+)

38
lolololol

Just recently that Smiling Moron "mayor" of Los Angeles was on Plastic Face's dumb podcast and laughed about how everyone is "lying" about how "violent" the city is.

Meanwhile, children in Los Angeles are literally taking entire main streets and looting stores.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (v6HoO)

39 The lie begins with the term “undocumented immigrant”.

They are not immigrants. They are illegal aliens.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (9iyS+)

40 I know he's going to run in 2028, but I don't see how is own appalling record won't sink him in the primary. The palisades fire alone should disqualify him. He and his wife opened an NGO to suck up the relief money, none of it going to the victims. They literally stole it.

But the media will carry his water, as they always do. And the lefty Karens that needo be sexually attracted to a nominee to vote for him will love his American Psycho hairgel and look.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (gWBY1)

41 16 It must be exhausting for one's brain do these mental jumping jacks every day to justify to yourself that you're always right and that everyone else is "lying".
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (k9OZB)

Not if you're a sociopath. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (MZ+PY)

42 28 I pray the AWFL's don't come out in droves and elect Newsom to become POTUS.

The way things are going this just might happen.
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Sure, if there's 25% turnout in the next election.

A reason why I aggressively dislike doomerism about elections is that it's quite correctible. Even if a local GOP is run by morons, there are quite a lot of PACs that do GOTV efforts now. We could all join or support one to make sure voters actually vote. That's the problem we've been having with these off-year special elections this year - ultra low turnout that makes the AWFLs seem like they are replicating when they are a shrinking demographic almost by definition.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (Dg7ng)

43 Thanks, I guess...

@Polymarket 15m
BREAKING: FDA adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of serious side effects including death.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (mlg/3)

44 It’s against federal law to provide those benefits to illegal aliens. In their lawsuit against the federal government states like California actually made the argument they were not knowingly in violation of federal law for those benefits.

Dummy Newsom just blew up his states legal argument.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (klxjG)

45
What I don't Like is the stupid Olympics in L.A. next year.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (v6HoO)

46 Every time an illegal goes to the ER, we pay for his health care. Not just in California but anywhere.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:26 PM (9iyS+)

47 What I don't Like is the stupid Olympics in L.A. next year.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Good news. It's not until 2028.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:26 PM (mlg/3)

48 "If it's true... how is Trump "lying," Ezra?"

==

Communism is a cult.

Posted by: mrp at December 12, 2025 12:26 PM (rj6Yv)

49 the Clintonian rot has been penetrated by the Obama fungus which is putrefying after Biden shat on it.

cut, jib, newsletter?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (emBoF)

50 Olympics is still a thing?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (9iyS+)

51 28 I pray the AWFL's don't come out in droves and elect Newsom to become POTUS.

The way things are going this just might happen.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)

It's incredibly stupid, but they'll vote for him for just his hair alone.
Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (UnA8+)

IMHO I don’t think Hairgel has a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected prez. He don’t play outside CA… and compare him to Kamala… he’s not getting nearly as many black female votes as she did. The all time king of vote getters in that demographic: 2020 Biden… which I don’t think that level of fraud can ever happen again unless they gin up another deadly pandemic

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (YobFY)

52 What I don't Like is the stupid Olympics in L.A. next year.
Posted by: Soothsayer

What I don't like are the stupid Olympics. Anywhere.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (77rzZ)

53 The smash and grabs for the Olymipcs will be a site to behold. I fear the backlash.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (cS1cw)

54 I believe that Newsom's whole draw is that he is very obviously loathsome. Loathsome Newsom, that works really well actually.

But the way it works is the left truly hates Trump. Even though Trump was a bit lefty. A lefty of a few decades ago, that degree of lefty, mostly on the social liberal side. But because they hate that he now stands in their way, and hate that he is sometimes, not often, but on occasion successful in opposing them they posses an existential hatred of the man.

And like any cargo cult in that situation they have brought forward their "Trump" a person who's only feature is they know he is really truly loathsome as they loath Trump. That's it entirely

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (3uBP9)

55 They can't wait to "fail" at the border again the minute they get back into power.

Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2025 12:28 PM (SwyyQ)

56 "Undocumented" ... so they have no documents to show they are American. They must go home to get their "free health care" (to they place where they ARE documented as citizens).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (vbXSk)

57 Buckley was ruled by the media to have lost the debate when he called Vidal a Fag. But Vidal IMO had already sunk too low when he called Buckley a Nazi. Buckley flew into a rage, and while he should have kept his cool I totally understand it.

The best revenge for the right, is that gore Vidal has faded into utter irrelevancy. At one point it was required to have his books on your self if you were a proper lefty. But no one cares about him anymore.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:20 PM (gWBY1)

"Call me a crypto-Nazi again, you queer, and I'll sock you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered."

Posted by: More or less. Great line. at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (TbWk/)

58 Said Arabia wants to host the Olympics. Lol

Gonna be lit when the LGBTQ+++++++ athletes show up. 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (9iyS+)

59 If I illegally entered Canada I would get free health care. "Bill, have you ever heard of Dr. Kavorkian? Well, we have a deal for you."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (gm9Sb)

60 43 Thanks, I guess...

@Polymarket 15m
BREAKING: FDA adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of serious side effects including death.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (mlg/3)

Just in the nick of time, eh Carmine?

Posted by: John McClane, Die Hard 2 at December 12, 2025 12:30 PM (TbWk/)

61 I know he's going to run in 2028, but I don't see how is own appalling record won't sink him in the primary. The palisades fire alone should disqualify him.

Ah, I think I see the problem. You're thinking that most voters will pay at least minimal attention to actual facts and not just their feels.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:30 PM (3nLb4)

62 Siri says 14 states plus D.C. give healthcare to illegals. Trump must be lying though.

Posted by: waelse1 at December 12, 2025 12:30 PM (lfepB)

63 Even when I was a young impressionable lad, Gore Vidal came across as someone who huffs his own farts. Pompous douchebag lefty. Might have actually been one of the reasons I drifted right, lol.

Posted by: Howard Johnson at December 12, 2025 12:31 PM (3BwY8)

64 58 Said Arabia wants to host the Olympics. Lol

Gonna be lit when the LGBTQ+++++++ athletes show up. 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

You don't need a pool to do a high-dive.

Posted by: Karl Wallenda at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (oftw2)

65
The RIGHT Way to frame what newscum admitted is this: Newscum "solves" the health insurance "affordability" issue for illegals by giving them free health care.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (v6HoO)

66 61 I know he's going to run in 2028, but I don't see how is own appalling record won't sink him in the primary. The palisades fire alone should disqualify him.

—

Huh? His record is impeccable.
- MSM

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (9iyS+)

67 Said Arabia wants to host the Olympics. Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Probably in NEOM, I'm guessing. That big planned city they're building in the northern part of the country.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (77rzZ)

68 >>If I illegally entered Canada I would get free health care. "Bill, have you ever heard of Dr. Kavorkian? Well, we have a deal for you."

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM

Maybe, if you're white.

Posted by: huerfano at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (98kQX)

69 IMHO I don’t think Hairgel has a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected prez. He don’t play outside CA… and compare him to Kamala…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

==

The reality is, every election is basically a coin flip.

I do agree he's not their strongest, not by a long shot. I just think CA anything is looked at negatively in the rest of the 49 states. And he is incredibly polarizing and oft putting.

I have Democrat friends in CA and even they loathe him.

If I were a Democrat, I'd find some vanilla Governor that just focused on kitchen table issues.

Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (eIzlH)

70 truth is whatever advances the cause.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (CWTWj)

71 >>> The smash and grabs for the Olymipcs will be a site to behold. I fear the backlash.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:27 PM (cS1cw)

I look forward to some of the new sports. The 50 yard drive by should be something to behold!

SLC is excited to have the Olympics again. But they unveiled their logo and it's not great. They are emphasizing Utah vs SLC.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:33 PM (gWBY1)

72 So a lot (all?) of those $ spent on "healthcare" for illegals is federal, right?

Thus, the O-care portion, surely, is being illegally spent, as that abomination of a disaster of an unconstitutional "law" expressly prohibited it.

Which just again raises the question of why Trump's HHS, whose secretary is given unbelievable dictatorial powers under that same law, never uses those powers to strangle/destroy/dismantle that enormous anchor around the country's neck. A question raised by a few in the first term, where again nothing was done.

So has the administration moved to end/block all $ to CA and other states proportional to those funds being illegally spent on illegal aliens? And is HHS gonna do anything else using its enormous discretion under the existing law?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 12:34 PM (U/Byj)

73 One of William F. Buckley's hobbies was small bore pistol shooting, and he was considered very good at it, as in would have been welcome on many teams. Gore got lucky.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:34 PM (gm9Sb)

74 Probably in NEOM, I'm guessing. That big planned city they're building in the northern part of the country.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:32 PM (77rzZ)

It’s even more regarded. Neil is hosting the Asian WINTER games. Yes winter games in Saudi Arabia. Cuz why not?

They’re bidding for then 2036 summer games. Not sure which city though.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:34 PM (9iyS+)

75 Giving "free" healthcare to illegals is monstrously unpopular. Like 95-5%.

If only The Stupid Party took advantage of such things...

Posted by: Brewingfrog at December 12, 2025 12:35 PM (2A6DC)

76 >>> Thanks, I guess...

@Polymarket 15m
BREAKING: FDA adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of serious side effects including death.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (mlg/3)

Only a matter of time, some changes in legal protection afforded to a few companies here and there before we start getting, tv, radio, internet, highway bulletin, ads for, "Were you effected by the side effects of COVID-19 vaccines? Call ....." I bet there is a lot of rearranging, retiring going on in pharm boards as the high ups try to limit their squeak hole's degree of liability.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:35 PM (3uBP9)

77 Interrogator: Out there it doesn't matter what time it is; in here, it's lunchtime if you and I decide that it is. The truth is sometimes what you believe it to be, and other times what you decide it to be. My task is to make you decide to believe differently, and when that happens the world will remake itself before your very eyes.
-----
This is what the Left has in mind for ALL of us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (RnixX)

78 IMHO I don’t think Hairgel has a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected prez. He don’t play outside CA… and compare him to Kamala…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

With enough money from trans-fascists, electability is no longer an issue. It's a matter of vote-by-mail, ballot harvesting, and assorted hacking that matters. The Left doesn't care anymore about the candidate because their evil machines are the thing that wins elections now.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (mlg/3)

79 Neom not Neil.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (9iyS+)

80 Said Arabia wants to host the Olympics. Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Pretty much like the real Olympics except instead of shot put they have homo put and it's off rooftops.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (L/fGl)

81 If I illegally entered Canada I would get free health care. "Bill, have you ever heard of Dr. Kavorkian? Well, we have a deal for you."
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:29 PM (gm9Sb)

No, you probably would get it. And you'd jump to the head of the line as a disadvantaged refugee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 12:36 PM (npFr7)

82 >>> Said Arabia wants to host the Olympics. Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Apparently the World Cup is in DC this year. It was fluffed up to the most pride friendly World Cup ever. Yaaaaas Kween! Snaps!

Guess who the finalists are? Two middle eastern counties where being gay is illegal. You can't make this up.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:37 PM (gWBY1)

83 Newsom only said this because he knows an audit in healthcare and SNAP is imminent. Getting caught is a weaker position than admitting it out front regardless of what was said in the past.

Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (dIske)

84 >>> Is it really a lie though?
Posted by: Costanza

You're fired.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (1wjle)

85 I know he's going to run in 2028, but I don't see how is own appalling record won't sink him in the primary.
---
You mean the party that just overwhelmingly and eagerly voted for an attorney general who wished children would get shot in the head because of their parent's politics?

It's time we stop assuming rationality on the left:
They hate America.
They hate Republicans.
They hate Trump.
They hate conservatives.

Anyone and anything that will cause those pain and suffering are their goals, no matter how destructive, vile or disgusting a vessel it comes in--as long as it hurts those they hate.

Mark my words:
They will be running an illegal in prison for a felony murder by 2028, in a safe blue seat--just to spite America and Americans.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (HXT0k)

86
I can't keep up with this dude's "reasoning." How is he simultaneously proud to provide free healthcare to illegals and upset about all the illegals in the state?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (1N/bM)

87 If you polled Americans and asked the question "do you think illegal aliens are getting taxpayer funded healthcare benefits?", what so you think that poll would say?

90%+ easy would say, "yes" that is happening.

nobody truly believes it's NOT happening, they might lie to influence a polling question they don't like, but they understand what's happening

Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (eIzlH)

88
Ezra Klein hilariously trying to do journalism.

Newsom: "We failed on the border."

Klein: "Why?"

Newsom? "Because we failed."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (1N/bM)

89 Afternoon Ace. Ezra Klein of Journo List fame must be working for some other Dem. He wouldn't have put this out if he wasn't.
Newsom is now in someone's cross hairs (not involving guns of course)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (D+mpw)

90 Saudi Arabia and the Olympics. IIRC the host country can designate or even create a sport for competition. The All Middle East Chopping of Body Parts for Minor Offences. Big Ali gets on the team after determining he was only semi pro.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:40 PM (gm9Sb)

91 >>>Mr. "The Constitution is like over a hundred years old"? That Ezra Klein?

no i think that was one of Obama's himbos, like Tommy Vietor. Ezra Klein never *officially* worked for the Democrat apparatus. Just the media, which, you know, is totally independent of the Democrat Party.

Racist.

Just thought I'd throw that in.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:40 PM (1wjle)

92 >>> Ah, I think I see the problem. You're thinking that most voters will pay at least minimal attention to actual facts and not just their feels.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:30 PM (3nLb4)

I'm stupid like that! I have faith people might one day vote facts over feels. The eternal optimist.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:40 PM (gWBY1)

93 Giving "free" healthcare to illegals is monstrously unpopular. Like 95-5%.

If only The Stupid Party took advantage of such things...
Posted by: Brewingfrog

==

To be fair, they did, basically stripping medicaid funds from states for this purpose. That's why they are so mad right now at this thing that was "never" happening.

Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:40 PM (eIzlH)

94 >>>Afternoon Ace. Ezra Klein of Journo List fame must be working for some other Dem. He wouldn't have put this out if he wasn't.

Oh I forgot, yeah, he was a ringleader of -- maybe the one who started -- JournOList.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:41 PM (1wjle)

95
omg I'm working my way through that interview. Biden's border failure was "a reaction to Trump." Newsom literally flat-out admits that whatever Trump did, Dems did a 180.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:41 PM (1N/bM)

96 Please to correct.

This is not "free" healthcare.

I pay for it. You do too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:42 PM (9ipOP)

97 And Klein is another one I've never really heard of except here. Oh well.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 12:42 PM (U/Byj)

98 >>> >>> Is it really a lie though?
Posted by: Costanza

You're fired.
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (1wjle)

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've commented at a lot of blogs, and I tell you, people do that all the time.

Posted by: Costanza at December 12, 2025 12:42 PM (3uBP9)

99 >>>Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've commented at a lot of blogs, and I tell you, people do that all the time.

lol

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle)

100 Is Leupold pronounced LEW-POLD, or LEE A POLD?

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (cS1cw)

101 >>> Ezra Klein hilariously trying to do journalism.

Adam Carolla's two interviews with Newsome are the only time he has not been handled with kid gloves, and both were a hilarious disaster for him. It's sad when a comedian does more journalism than supposed journalists.

Forget media news anchors. I'd love Adam Cadillac to host a debate.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (gWBY1)

102 Newsom: "We failed on the border."

Klein: "Why?"

Newsom? "Because we failed."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (1N/bM)
=====

As significant as the passage of time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (9ipOP)

103 There ain't no such thing as a free healthcare.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (Vq1pX)

104 Speaking of Health Care...I seem to recall at least one of us Morons is an expert in it. I've been part-time since laid off last year, mostly not working. COBRA's about used up. Any good, affordable plans still available in Kali?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

105 >>>omg I'm working my way through that interview. Biden's border failure was "a reaction to Trump." Newsom literally flat-out admits that whatever Trump did, Dems did a 180.

he's echoing the New York Times Narrative Shift piece that claims that. I'll be posting that later. Hooboy, it's somethin' else.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (1wjle)

106 Free Shit sells well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (Wg6v7)

107 100 Is Leupold pronounced LEW-POLD, or LEE A POLD?
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (cS1cw)

Ley-yoo-pold

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (Vq1pX)

108 Forget media news anchors. I'd love Adam Cadillac to host a debate.
Posted by: LizLem

It would be a pay per view, fo' sho'.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (mlg/3)

109 103 There ain't no such thing as a free healthcare.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (Vq1pX)

If it's "free" you don't know the true costs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

110 > I can't keep up with this dude's "reasoning." How is he simultaneously proud to provide free healthcare to illegals and upset about all the illegals in the state?
----------
I would imagine the illegals are still, to this day, a huge voting bloc in CA.

One comment is for local consumption. The other's for Trump.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (NwnyJ)

111 peaking of Health Care...I seem to recall at least one of us Morons is an expert in it. I've been part-time since laid off last year, mostly not working. COBRA's about used up. Any good, affordable plans still available in Kali?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Weird Dave, who hosts the Friday ONTs.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

112 Oh, you mean the commenter, not the optics company.

No idea.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (Vq1pX)

113 107 100 Is Leupold pronounced LEW-POLD, or LEE A POLD?
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (cS1cw)

Ley-yoo-pold

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (Vq1pX)

Loop-hold? Loop-hole?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)

114 Way past time to burn California to the ground and start over.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (Wg6v7)

115 111 peaking of Health Care...I seem to recall at least one of us Morons is an expert in it. I've been part-time since laid off last year, mostly not working. COBRA's about used up. Any good, affordable plans still available in Kali?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Weird Dave, who hosts the Friday ONTs.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

Ah, thanks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)

116 >>>Adam Carolla's two interviews with Newsome are the only time he has not been handled with kid gloves, and both were a hilarious disaster for him. It's sad when a comedian does more journalism than supposed journalists.

Carolla did an experiment replacing Newsom's voice with Burt Reynolds' voice in those interviews. I'm not sure what it's supposed to prove but it's funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiIt_Rb0oi0

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle)

117 @Polymarket 15m
BREAKING: FDA adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of serious side effects including death.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (mlg/3)
====

I will be a member of that class once certified.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (9ipOP)

118
Ezra Klein of Journo List fame must be working for some other Dem. He wouldn't have put this out if he wasn't.
Newsom is now in someone's cross hairs (not involving guns of course)
Posted by: Smell the Glove

===============

There's another theory: Klein just co-wrote a book called "Abundance" and has developed something called "the abundance theory" (or something) in which he supposedly tackles the Democrats' eternal failure to get things done, all while making people more prosperous, not less. It seems like he's frustrated with continuing Democrat failures and he's trying to make a change in Democrat policies and the ideology itself.

He's 5% onto something, but I've seen him talk about other things and he's way too blind and stupid to make the biggest and most obvious connections.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (1N/bM)

119 Whomever the GOP candidate for President in 2028 is, (and if Newsom is the Dem) they need to insist that one of the debates needs to be seated without a table so that the country can see Newsom perform the Nutcracker.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (M0V4/)

120
Adam Carolla's two interviews with Newsome are the only time he has not been handled with kid gloves, and both were a hilarious disaster for him. It's sad when a comedian does more journalism than supposed journalists.

Forget media news anchors. I'd love Adam Cadillac to host a debate.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:43

I love that clip and it should be played more often. I also wonder if Carolla was audited after that interview.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (a4iX6)

121 Illegals now have to pay some small amount for healthcare in California because Newsom got the math wrong. Ooops.

Posted by: coba at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (IuIym)

122 114 Way past time to burn California to the ground and start over.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (Wg6v7)

With current forestry policies here, it won't take long...just wait for the next drought.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (ynpvh)

123 “Undocumented Immigrants”

What a Fag. At least two lies, for the price of one.

They are not “immigrants” and they are not “undocumented”.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (K0w3s)

124 111 peaking of Health Care...I seem to recall at least one of us Morons is an expert in it. I've been part-time since laid off last year, mostly not working. COBRA's about used up. Any good, affordable plans still available in Kali?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
------------------
Learn to speak Spanish and go to the Emergency Room. Free Shit abounds.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (Wg6v7)

125 Carolla did an experiment replacing Newsom's voice with Burt Reynolds' voice in those interviews. I'm not sure what it's supposed to prove but it's funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiIt_Rb0oi0
Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle)
=====
So Gavin's words can be analyzed separately from his style and presentation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (9ipOP)

126 Ah, thanks.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

You're welcome. Somebody else asked about him on the last thread, too.

How're you doing?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

127 I thankfully have no standing to sue for covid shot.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:47 PM (cS1cw)

128 I can't keep up with this dude's "reasoning." How is he simultaneously proud to provide free healthcare to illegals and upset about all the illegals in the state?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:38 PM (1N/bM)
*******
He's slick. Newsom has learned that he can get away with talking out of both sides of his mouth.
He's been doing this for years and it has gotten him elected.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 12:47 PM (NpAcC)

129 Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (Wg6v7)
====

When your company COBRA expires the state will offer you a 3 year Cal-COBRA extension.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (9ipOP)

130 113 107 100 Is Leupold pronounced LEW-POLD, or LEE A POLD?
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (cS1cw)

Ley-yoo-pold

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:44 PM (Vq1pX)

Loop-hold? Loop-hole?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)

It's pronounced "Larry." Just like it's spelled.

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (C24tU)

131 126 Ah, thanks.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

You're welcome. Somebody else asked about him on the last thread, too.

How're you doing?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

Okay. Surgery is Monday. Still paying for the last one, LOL. And my son's "visit" to ER in June...and for his ambulance service...and for...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (ynpvh)

132 Obviously ending illegal medical $ to illegal aliens is another key move that needs to get done yesterday.

But again, it pales in comparison, in terms of impact (#s self-deporting) to the absolutely critical move, that will yield yuuuge results: turning off the magnet of employment by enforcing the law against employers.

The low-risk, low-cost, almost invisible (in public relations terms) move, which is girls' gym compared to messy raids with idiots protesting/interfering. Fifty lawyers making 5 phone calls a day to known perp firms laying out the situation - with some demonstrative raids and executive suite arrests to set the table - and the outflow of illegals will be dramatic.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (U/Byj)

133 I'm getting ready to make chili because it's getting cold this weekend. I had stuff laid out and just noticed that one of my cans of beans was actually a can of cranberry sauce that wasn't used. That would have been bad.

So here's my philosophical, moral ethics problem:

If you had accidently used cranberry sauce, the canned jell stuff, in your chili, would you

A. Still eat it. Except your faults and embrace the outcome.
B. Throw it all out and start from scratch. Adapt and overcome.
C. ?? whatever that is

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (3uBP9)

134 >>>So Gavin's words can be analyzed separately from his style and presentation.

yeah I thought that would be too hard to explain but I see you did it very concisely.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (1wjle)

135 129 Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:46 PM (Wg6v7)
====

When your company COBRA expires the state will offer you a 3 year Cal-COBRA extension.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (9ipOP)

Oh? Didn't know that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (ynpvh)

136 Didn't Carolla's house burn down in the big fire? He's got every reason to go after Greasebag.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

137 Who was that Congressman who yelled "you lie" during Obama's SOTU speech? Remember how he was shamed for that, even if it was a breech of etiquette. He was right! When will he get an apology?

Posted by: Lex at December 12, 2025 12:49 PM (l5xX+)

138
Klein is another one I've never really heard of except here. Oh well.
Posted by: rhomboid

=============

Oh, you remember him. "The trouble with the Constitution is that it's, like, a hundred years old."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:49 PM (1N/bM)

139 Gavin Newsom's autobiography. Chapter three. The beatings in middle school.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)

140 >>>Oh, you remember him. "The trouble with the Constitution is that it's, like, a hundred years old."

no that was, I think, Tommy Vietor.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle)

141
Who was that Congressman who yelled "you lie" during Obama's SOTU speech? Remember how he was shamed for that, even if it was a breech of etiquette. He was right! When will he get an apology?
Posted by: Lex

===============

Joe Wilson. I established a Personal Best in running time as I dashed to my computer to send him $25.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (1N/bM)

142 I'm getting ready to make chili because it's getting cold this weekend. I had stuff laid out and just noticed that one of my cans of beans was actually a can of cranberry sauce that wasn't used. That would have been bad.

So here's my philosophical, moral ethics problem:

If you had accidently used cranberry sauce, the canned jell stuff, in your chili, would you

A. Still eat it. Except your faults and embrace the outcome.
B. Throw it all out and start from scratch. Adapt and overcome.
C. ?? whatever that is
Posted by: banana Dream

A. Just add carrots, it'll be fine.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (77rzZ)

143 133 I'm getting ready to make chili because it's getting cold this weekend. I had stuff laid out and just noticed that one of my cans of beans was actually a can of cranberry sauce that wasn't used. That would have been bad.

So here's my philosophical, moral ethics problem:

If you had accidently used cranberry sauce, the canned jell stuff, in your chili, would you

A. Still eat it. Except your faults and embrace the outcome.
B. Throw it all out and start from scratch. Adapt and overcome.
C. ?? whatever that is
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (3uBP9)

Separate out the jelly, eat it on the side. Add beans and continue chili

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (xcxpd)

144 136 Didn't Carolla's house burn down in the big fire? He's got every reason to go after Greasebag.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

I think his house was spared.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (a4iX6)

145 Didn't Carolla's house burn down in the big fire? He's got every reason to go after Greasebag.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)
=====

No it escaped.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (9ipOP)

146 102 Newsom: "We failed on the border."

Klein: "Why?"

Newsom? "Because we failed."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:39 PM (1N/bM)
=====

As significant as the passage of time.

TBF, he did say that they'd have to get control of the border before they can get to their holy amnesty grail. Now, since Trump has already gotten control of the border, I guess that means we can move straight to amnesty.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

147 Leupold pronounced

A Gun Show loophole?

Posted by: parrots at December 12, 2025 12:50 PM (DY2gD)

148 C. ?? whatever that is
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (3uBP9)

Eat it and enjoy!

There's a "recipe" that's literally just a whole can of whatever junk chili sauce you got on hand, a whole can of cranberry sauce, a bag of frozen pre-made meatballs, and a crock pot.

It sounds absurd but it's actually pretty good.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:51 PM (Vq1pX)

149 132 Obviously ending illegal medical $ to illegal aliens is another key move that needs to get done yesterday.

But again, it pales in comparison, in terms of impact (#s self-deporting) to the absolutely critical move, that will yield yuuuge results: turning off the magnet of employment by enforcing the law against employers.

The low-risk, low-cost, almost invisible (in public relations terms) move, which is girls' gym compared to messy raids with idiots protesting/interfering. Fifty lawyers making 5 phone calls a day to known perp firms laying out the situation - with some demonstrative raids and executive suite arrests to set the table - and the outflow of illegals will be dramatic.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 12:48 PM (U/Byj)

Moar like this

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:51 PM (xcxpd)

150 Just looked up Cal-Cobra. Thanks. Looks like I can get another 18 months.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

151 C. Beat my wife with the can of cranberry sauce.

If I'm cooking, she has failed me.

There have to be consequences.

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 12:52 PM (C24tU)

152 141...yes, Joe Wilson! That was the end of the world to the media and Dems when it happened. And that was like 15 years ago. It's all optics and who said it; not whether it was true or right. Narrative over substance, despite what they tell us about being truth seekers and all that rot.

Posted by: Lex at December 12, 2025 12:52 PM (l5xX+)

153 Add Mayo to the chili. Everyone loves jellied cranberry. Call it a sandwich.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 12:52 PM (Wg6v7)

154
no that was, I think, Tommy Vietor.
Posted by: ace

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Hmm, maybe. I recall Tommy Vietor was the guy speaking to Brett Baier about internal doctoring of Benghazi coverage. "Dude. That was like two years ago."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (1N/bM)

155 Who was that Congressman who yelled "you lie" during Obama's SOTU speech? Remember how he was shamed for that, even if it was a breech of etiquette. He was right! When will he get an apology?
Posted by: Lex

Obama said something about a Supreme Court case (Citizens United?) in one of his SOTUs, and even the Wide Latina was caught on camera saying something like "not true" under her breath.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (77rzZ)

156

Hey, they have to own up to letting tens of millions into the country. They will get around to it.

What a greasy tapeworm this buffoon is.

Posted by: E Buzz at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (eXp3j)

157 Gavin Newsom had the balls to announce he was cutting street cleaning in half and the result would be cleaner streets.

That takes chutzpah.

Analyzing their rhetoric is much simpler if you begin with the presumption they think you're stupid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (9ipOP)

158 The democrats have moved on from "spending other peoples' money" to giving away entire countries to noncitizens in order to get their votes.

Trying to figure out what they can possibly offer next.

Posted by: red speck at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (Ve/HL)

159 The problems are not hard to fix at all. The problem is half the government wants to fundamentally transform the nation. Might even go 2/3rds.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 12, 2025 12:53 PM (cS1cw)

160 >>>Hmm, maybe. I recall Tommy Vietor was the guy speaking to Brett Baier about internal doctoring of Benghazi coverage. "Dude. That was like two years ago."

oh maybe I'm getting it confused. I don't think Ezra Klein said the constitution was like 100 years old. Wasn't that Meghan McCain, then?

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:54 PM (1wjle)

161 But again, it pales in comparison, in terms of impact (#s self-deporting) to the absolutely critical move, that will yield yuuuge results: turning off the magnet of employment by enforcing the law against employers.

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You'd clear out half of them over night by not letting illegals go to public schools.

So if you live a block outside the school district you can't attend, but if you're here illegally, and you HAVE TO let them have a spot at schools?

This alone is like trillions of dollars that are being wasted.

Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 12:55 PM (eIzlH)

162 This is not news. This is not a win. He has been saying this for the last three years. It was his way of begging terrorists, rapists, and drug dealers to come to his state. However, while illegals get free health care and tuition-all the way through college, CA residents must pay for their health care. The health care is $10 Billion per year that illegals get, so $30 Billion just in free health care. Remember that when they start talking about amnesty and paying a $250 fine.

Posted by: wferrin at December 12, 2025 12:55 PM (2Nm29)

163 @157 I believe him. Just like Stalin's Five Year Plan was completed in four years

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 12:55 PM (D+mpw)

164 even the Wide Latina was caught on camera saying something like "not true" under her breath.
Posted by: Bulg
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I think that was Roberts. Sotomayor the Stupid would never go against the lightworker.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 12:56 PM (1Nv0l)

165
Yeah, Klein was the one who said the Constitution is like 100 years old.

https://tinyurl.com/2t5rc3ua

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:56 PM (1N/bM)

166 Sure, I'll read everything, but did they get around to, "And besides, its all your fault," yet?

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 12, 2025 12:56 PM (YlWIZ)

167 Is Leupold pronounced LEW-POLD, or LEE A POLD?
Posted by: connected and litigious

Throat Warbler Mangrove

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 12, 2025 12:57 PM (M0V4/)

168 >>>Yeah, Klein was the one who said the Constitution is like 100 years old.
https://tinyurl.com/2t5rc3ua

Huh.

This is why Breitbart only read the comments. I am unreliable.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:57 PM (1wjle)

169 oh maybe I'm getting it confused. I don't think Ezra Klein said the constitution was like 100 years old. Wasn't that Meghan McCain, then?
Posted by: ace

I think it was a chick, but I don't remember her name. Maybe some Congresswoman?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

170 Obama said something about a Supreme Court case (Citizens United?) in one of his SOTUs, and even the Wide Latina was caught on camera saying something like "not true" under her breath.

IIRC, that was Alito.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (3nLb4)

171 I think that was Roberts. Sotomayor the Stupid would never go against the lightworker.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

I seem to remember that it was Sotomayor. That's what made it so noteworthy.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)

172 Remember that Terra blockchain that got depegged and dumped in '22 leaving thousands holding empty bags? Probably not. Anyway, the guy running it just got sentenced to 15 years in FPMITA prison, more than anyone asked for.

Posted by: banana Dream - your humble fartcoin reporter at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (3uBP9)

173 @160 ace, nah , Meghan McCain said the Constitution was like a 100 donuts ago

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (D+mpw)

174 If something is true, and you mistakenly believe it's not true, but you proclaim it's true anyway, aren't you lying?

Because I can read Trump's mind. And he actually believes that Democrats don't provide health care to undocumented immigrants. Therefore he's lying when he says they do.

Posted by: Ezra at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (GD2xa)

175 Obsma may have told YOU to check tire pressure, but I think it was just in his notes that day.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 12, 2025 12:58 PM (YlWIZ)

176 I am unreliable.
Posted by: ace

You're never gonna get past that shelving incident, are you?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

177 This is why Breitbart only read the comments. I am unreliable.
Posted by: ace

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Nah, it's because we're funnier.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (1Nv0l)

178 @164 actually I think it was Alito saying "not true"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (D+mpw)

179 It's like a scene from "I, Mudd". He cannot tell the truth but he says he is lying but it must be the truth but he lies....

Posted by: Toad-0 at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (S6jVk)

180 Yeah, Klein was the one who said the Constitution is like 100 years old.

https://tinyurl.com/2t5rc3ua
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

No math!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (ZaZ9u)

181 Ezra Klein did make that statement about the Constitution

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (sDNVV)

182 "Now, since Trump has already gotten control of the border, I guess that means we can move straight to amnesty." - Archimedes

Exactly the situation. And the amnesty will be lawless and "administrative", just as Biden/Obama worst of all, but also other administrations, misused discretion to create de facto amnesty (culminating in the worst case, DACA).

Still likely that enough GOP senators will remain terrified to vote for actual amnesty (41), despite being desperate to do so - assuming a few don't do a banzai charge and retire before their next primary - so lawless abuse of power will be the only option.

Border can be opened/closed like a door. Trump 2.0 just dramatically illustrated this. Reason #1,321 why removals of illegals is an urgent matter, and the administration should play like they're 20 points behind. They are, mostly - but not in the most important area, employment.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (U/Byj)

183 Which just again raises the question of why Trump's HHS, whose secretary is given unbelievable dictatorial powers under that same law, never uses those powers to strangle/destroy/dismantle that enormous anchor around the country's neck. A question raised by a few in the first term, where again nothing was done.

So has the administration moved to end/block all $ to CA and other states proportional to those funds being illegally spent on illegal aliens? And is HHS gonna do anything else using its enormous discretion under the existing law?
Posted by: rhomboid
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They are but DC courts. Plus, all blue states are having to be sued to get basic information on voting lists, Medicaid recipients, and so on.

Cutting off funds implicates the APA and other laws so all of that takes time including overcoming adverse lower court decisions even if the law is black letter. See Planned Parenthood cutoff ruling from a Boston district court judge despite BBB specifically cutting those funds off.

Basically legal mumbo jumbo ruling, "it ain't fair to single out PP by cutting off their funds." See Liberty interest of the 14th Amendment as quasi justification although misapplied here.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (WDjG6)

184
It's so cute when You People try to remember stuff.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (eLNVP)

185 175 Obsma may have told YOU to check tire pressure, but I think it was just in his notes that day.
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Much like Pete Buttigig, my read of Barry is that he has never changed a tire.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (Wg6v7)

186 176 I am unreliable.
Posted by: ace

You're never gonna get past that shelving incident, are you?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

And Macho Grande

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (xcxpd)

187
TBF, he did say that they'd have to get control of the border before they can get to their holy amnesty grail. Now, since Trump has already gotten control of the border, I guess that means we can move straight to amnesty.
Posted by: Archimedes

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"Bravely" copping to one "mistake" so he can move quickly along to the "solution" (total amnesty) is a Stupid Politician Trick that Democrats will nod along with.

Then JD Vance will expose it in 2 seconds.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 01:01 PM (1N/bM)

188 This is why Breitbart only read the comments. I am unreliable.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2025 12:57 PM (1wjle)

We still love you, Ace!

Posted by: pookysgirl, somewhat reliable at December 12, 2025 01:01 PM (Wt5PA)

189 Surprising no one, the left has filed a lawsuit to stop construction on the WH ballroom.

See, the construction is a violation of the Administrative Procedures Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. (lol, wut?)

Will the illegal injunction be granted today or will the clown judge wait until Monday?

LOL, these retards:
Do they realize that they've just given Trump a SCOTUS ruling that the APA is unconstitutional?

Every single lawsuit against Trump has cited violations of the APA ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (HXT0k)

190 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

BREAKING: Nicki Minaj DECIMATES Gavin Newsom for saying "I want to see trans kids"

"Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav"

Incredible things are happening. She's also been praising JD Vance.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (NpAcC)

191 I seem to remember that it was Sotomayor. That's what made it so noteworthy.
Posted by: Bulg

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I just looked it up (cheating, I know). It was Alito. But Roberts backed him up.

It was noteworthy because Obama broke decorum with the criticism, and Alito broke decorum by responding.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (1Nv0l)

192 >> This is why Breitbart only read the comments.

That guy knew the score.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (IaZ7c)

193 It was definitely Alito who said "not true." I think that was a different SOTU than the Joe Wilson "you lie" comment. But Wilson didn't mutter it under his breath. He yelled it. And got tons of flak for it. Not because it was wrong, though. And we all know if AOC or some other ding dong yelled that at Trump it would be framed as a brave act of resistance or whatever. Like Pelosi tearing up the SOTU speech.

Posted by: Lex at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (l5xX+)

194 Speaking of Health Care...I seem to recall at least one of us Morons is an expert in it. I've been part-time since laid off last year, mostly not working. COBRA's about used up. Any good, affordable plans still available in Kali?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

Go to ehealth.com all the plans are there. This goes for every state.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 01:03 PM (9iyS+)

195
I am unreliable.
Posted by: ace

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You're still furrier and more cuddly and likable than I am.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 01:04 PM (1N/bM)

196 >>> Incredible things are happening. She's also been praising JD Vance.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (NpAcC)

She's been asked, and has stated she's interested in, being an ambassador or something to raise awareness of the plight of Christians being killed around the world.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:04 PM (3uBP9)

197 Thought for the day. Time always folds in upon itself like an origami chicken.

https://is.gd/1kK4Iu

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

198 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

BREAKING: Nicki Minaj DECIMATES Gavin Newsom for saying "I want to see trans kids"

"Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav"

Incredible things are happening. She's also been praising JD Vance.
Posted by: redridinghood

Trump acknowledging the persecution and murder of Christianss by Muslims in Africa really opened her eyes.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:05 PM (MGB5H)

199 >>>BREAKING: FDA adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of serious side effects including death.

Is this verified? I feel like I've finally been vindicated after years of abuse.

Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2025 01:06 PM (SwyyQ)

200 "I'm proud of that. I believe in universal health care."

For the entire planet, apparently. Paid for by American taxpayers.

Run Gavin, run. Please. You are so going to get smashed by JD.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:06 PM (1Nv0l)

201 I am a Christian.
It's almost Christmas.
I am not supposed to hate.
But, damn I come close when it comes to the dems.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (2WIwB)

202 For them it's a ritual, like the 5 minute hate. Of course Trump is lying.

Posted by: PG at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (1GUBr)

203 Making.rounds on X is a smug AWFL state senator fot KY making the case that white children should learn in school how terrible they are for having the audicity for having been born with white skin.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (Dv3i1)

204 Saudi Arabia and the Olympics. IIRC the host country can designate or even create a sport for competition. The All Middle East Chopping of Body Parts for Minor Offences. Big Ali gets on the team after determining he was only semi pro.
Posted by: bill

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Waaaay back, Nat Lamp proposed 'Running Amok' as an Olympic event. They opined that the Turks would be a shoo-in.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (XeU6L)

205 abuse after years of vindication > vindicated after years of abuse

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (1Nv0l)

206 Surprising no one, the left has filed a lawsuit to stop construction on the WH ballroom.

See, the construction is a violation of the Administrative Procedures Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. (lol, wut?)

Will the illegal injunction be granted today or will the clown judge wait until Monday?

LOL, these retards:
Do they realize that they've just given Trump a SCOTUS ruling that the APA is unconstitutional?

Every single lawsuit against Trump has cited violations of the APA ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:02 PM (HXT0k)
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These people are insane. The building has already been torn down. What do they wanna do leave it in a pile of rubble for Trump's whole term?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:08 PM (NpAcC)

207
So if you live a block outside the school district you can't attend, but if you're here illegally, and you HAVE TO let them have a spot at schools?
This alone is like trillions of dollars that are being wasted.
Posted by: Leupold

Watching the local Orlando news, they are having to consolidate and close public schools all across the region, Orlando and Orange County, due to a lack of students.

The talking heads were all "but what happened to them all?" and "what's different this year?".

Dumbasses. They are self departing and Homan is kicking the fuck out.

I voted for this.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (GeOin)

208 Border can be opened/closed like a door. Trump 2.0 just dramatically illustrated this. Reason #1,321 why removals of illegals is an urgent matter, and the administration should play like they're 20 points behind. They are, mostly - but not in the most important area, employment.
Posted by: rhomboid

From a public safety standpoint, removing criminals and terrorists should come first. Every American killed by an illegal criminal is one needless death.

Second, Trump is trying to keep the economy going at the same time other disruptive moves are being made---tariffs shifting countries of production, supply chains for critical goods like food and pharma, probably some quid pro quo involving Latin countries that play ball on Venezuela (foreign and domestic issue), etc.

Trump and his team are masters at economic policy even in his first term, and he is in a rush which is why all the GOPe, Dems, and black robed tyrants are out to disrupt, delay, and deny his ability to roll back the tide.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (WDjG6)

209 The problems are not hard to fix at all. The problem is half the government wants to fundamentally transform the nation. Might even go 2/3rds.
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Never forget Bill Krystol's tweet. Which basically said:
The people can choose so long as they choose what we want.

That is why we are in the most dangerous time.
Not because they are winning but because they are no longer able to win.
And so, they will destroy the country rather than give up power.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (HXT0k)

210 Waaaay back, Nat Lamp proposed 'Running Amok' as an Olympic event. They opined that the Turks would be a shoo-in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM

How about 'Jumping to Conclusions'? I'd watch that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (kgE5c)

211 Well whig then the urgency of the matter is even greater than I claimed. And of course another case in which the administration should meet the lawless "courts" with defiance - and there are often sneaky ways to do that in such matters. Just stop funding by the amount estimated (and now admitted) to being used contrary to law. Let a court try to compel disbursement.

Finally, finally, finally - start to put the judiciary back in its place. Which is far far below and much less important than it has, disastrously, been allowed to become.

There are infinite rationalizations to comply with the imaginary imperatives the Legal Cult has invented, and they lead to where we are today. Administration has a choice to be either a speed bump, or a change in direction.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (U/Byj)

212 Thanks for setting me straight on the "not true" incident, folks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:09 PM (77rzZ)

213 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

BREAKING: Nicki Minaj DECIMATES Gavin Newsom for saying "I want to see trans kids"

"Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav"

Incredible things are happening. She's also been praising JD Vance.
Posted by: redridinghood

Trump acknowledging the persecution and murder of Christianss by Muslims in Africa really opened her eyes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:05 PM (MGB5H)
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I would not put too much faith in Nicki Minaj, given her history, but she's been stronger on culture issues concerning children than I would have expected. I also think that blacks aren't nearly as down with the tranny movement as AWFuLs are. Trannyism seems 99% an affluent white thing.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

214 More and more I realize we can’t live with these people. And this includes establishment GOP.

Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

215 Newsom and Klein
Gay vs Really Gay

Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 01:11 PM (v0R5T)

216 She's been asked, and has stated she's interested in, being an ambassador or something to raise awareness of the plight of Christians being killed around the world.
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When you live in a world where an unchaste woman speaks more against the persecution of Christians than the Pope ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (HXT0k)

217 How about 'Jumping to Conclusions'? I'd watch that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I've invented a jumping to conclusions mat. It has different conclusions and you can jump to them.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (MGB5H)

218 BREAKING: Nicki Minaj DECIMATES Gavin Newsom for saying "I want to see trans kids"

She killed 1/10 of him? The other 9/10s remain dangerous, no doubt, shambling on.

I wish she would have DESTROYED him with FACTS and LOGIC instead.

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (C24tU)

219 Waaaay back, Nat Lamp proposed 'Running Amok' as an Olympic event. They opined that the Turks would be a shoo-in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM

How about 'Jumping to Conclusions'? I'd watch that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

No love for dildo tossing?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

220 >>> Border can be opened/closed like a door. Trump 2.0 just dramatically illustrated this. Reason #1,321 why removals of illegals is an urgent matter, and the administration should play like they're 20 points behind. They are, mostly - but not in the most important area, employment.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 01:00 PM (U/Byj)

Five seconds after they throw Trump out and the left is back in charge they will open the border wide open and then state there's simply no way to close it now as that is just the way things have always been.

And no one will question them.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:13 PM (3uBP9)

221 I also think that blacks aren't nearly as down with the tranny movement as AWFuLs are. Trannyism seems 99% an affluent white thing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Just like the gay thing. There's a reason Pete Buttgig has zeropointzero support among Blacks.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:13 PM (1Nv0l)

222 I've invented a jumping to conclusions mat. It has different conclusions and you can jump to them.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM

I'm putting my money on the Jumping Jews of Jerusalem.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 01:13 PM (kgE5c)

223 Someone in the last thread asked what value health insurance companies provide and its an interesting question now...because they aren't providing insurance.

Insurance would be "this plan covers you getting hit by a car or getting brain cancer" it would not include check ups or lab work or any of that.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

224 I've invented a jumping to conclusions mat. It has different conclusions and you can jump to them.
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Its called Twister. Jan Brady and I got it on playing Twister.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (Wg6v7)

225 BREAKING: Nicki Minaj DECIMATES Gavin Newsom for saying "I want to see trans kids"

She killed 1/10 of him? The other 9/10s remain dangerous, no doubt, shambling on.

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox

Because the meaning of words must be fixed in stone and may never, ever change.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)

226 Gavin Newsom: "I believe in universal health care."

"So -- if aliens come here, you think we should give them all free health care?"

"Of course — I support our Hispanic community."

"No, you misunderstand -- I mean, if alien-aliens, like from outer space, come here, should we give them all free health care?"

"I did say 'universal,' didn't I?"

But seriously, if you combine No Borders + Unchecked Mass Illegal Immigration + Universal Healthcare, then we are basically providing free health to the entire world (and universe, once the UFOs land).

Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (oraVG)

227 These people are insane. The building has already been torn down. What do they wanna do leave it in a pile of rubble for Trump's whole term?
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It's spite.
They don't care if they leave an eyesore that lingers for decades.
So long as it hurts Trump, Republicans and America.

The threat is:
Give them back their power or they will leave America in rubble.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (HXT0k)

228 Saudi Arabia and the Olympics. IIRC the host country can designate or even create a sport for competition. The All Middle East Chopping of Body Parts for Minor Offences. Big Ali gets on the team after determining he was only semi pro.
Posted by: bill

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Waaaay back, Nat Lamp proposed 'Running Amok' as an Olympic event. They opined that the Turks would be a shoo-in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM (XeU6L)

I know that's a thing in Indonesia and the south pacific. Is it a thing in Turkey too where folks just go nuts, grab a blade and start hacking away?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (xcxpd)

229 We send kids to college to get a better education and prepare for a better future. But what we get is warped minds full of hate for their country and want socialism or communism to make everyone equal in their eyes. Instead of smarter they come out more stupid and dangerous to the country. They are too stupid to know they are being played. And our media applauds this.

Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (G1OIb)

230 Insurance would be "this plan covers you getting hit by a car or getting brain cancer" it would not include check ups or lab work or any of that.
Posted by: 18-1

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Obama made those plans illegal. He wanted to force people who take care of themselves to pay for the slobs.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (1Nv0l)

231 Its called Twister. Jan Brady and I got it on playing Twister.
Posted by: Pudinhead

A friend of mine in elementary school had a crush on Eve Plumb, who played Jan.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

232 So I saw that tweet Ace posted hours ago, and I thought: ???

I simply could not parse it. He lied, by stating a true fact.

I thought there must be a word missing. As cynical as I am, I did not understand that Ace just explained.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (uxVjF)

233 Economic rationalization for what could be a disastrously slow approach to the employment lever on mass illegal migration doesn't wash.

There are certain sectors to start with, and ways to do it, that minimize disruption - in fact both common sense and previous examples show there is a net economic benefit, and pretty quickly, to American citizens involved.

And this approach has been laid out and known since the first term. No administration can control the future or the idiocies the American people will tolerate or even embrace. But the choice between speed bump and change of direction is entirely up to the administration.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (U/Byj)

234 Hmm. Let's see. I've got a dentist appointment this afternoon and dermatologist stitches out on Monday.
None of it is FREE. I think I've been suckered.

Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (v0R5T)

235 Monty Python had the classic Silly Olympics
Hundred yard dash for people with no sense of direction
Marathon for incontinents
100 meter swim for nonswimmers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (D+mpw)

236 Insurance would be "this plan covers you getting hit by a car or getting brain cancer" it would not include check ups or lab work or any of that.
Posted by: 18-1

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Obama made those plans illegal. He wanted to force people who take care of themselves to pay for the slobs.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

Yup I carried catastrophic coverage plan and it was glorious. It was gone immediately.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (MGB5H)

237 The day taxpayers in Guatemala give me something for free is the day I'll give them something for free.

Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:16 PM (oraVG)

238 Do they realize that they've just given Trump a SCOTUS ruling that the APA is unconstitutional?

Every single lawsuit against Trump has cited violations of the APA ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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NEPA is probably what will cause higher courts to reverse the ruling. Scotus precedent has narrowed it a lot.

APA is simply codification of Londoner v. Denver and BiMetallic v. Board of Equalization Scotus rulings at the turn of the century.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:17 PM (WDjG6)

239 "No, you misunderstand -- I mean, if alien-aliens, like from outer space, come here, should we give them all free health care?"

"I did say 'universal,' didn't I?"
.......

But they have green blood.

Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 01:18 PM (v0R5T)

240 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Tim Walz is currently defending Somalis, who perpetrated one of the largest fraud schemes in history—and attacking Trump for bringing it up:

“The idea that the Somali community’s to blame for this… Trump brought this to the attention… very dangerous!”

https://tinyurl.com/2m7hhcmm

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 01:18 PM (NpAcC)

241 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 12, 2025 01:19 PM (5IH8V)

242 Yup I carried catastrophic coverage plan and it was glorious. It was gone immediately.
Posted by: BruceWayn
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Same. I pay a fortune for a lousy ObamaCare plan under which the Insurance company still attempts to charge me for the few morsels of preventative care I use that are supposed to be covered.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 12, 2025 01:19 PM (1Nv0l)

243 Obama made those plans illegal. He wanted to force people who take care of themselves to pay for the slobs.
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He wanted to delay adolescence to the age of 26. Healthy kids don't buy insurance. Much like the Mothers Against Drunk Driving delayed adolescence by moving the age of majority from 18 to 21. Fuck these twits.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 01:19 PM (Wg6v7)

244 >>> Gavin Newsom: "I believe in universal health care."

======

Last spring, the large health insurance company my wife works for (I.T. side of it.) had a 10% RIF. They started with 10k stateside contractors. Today she found out her org has to reduce another 20%.

This kind of seems like the path to universal healthcare. Instability in the private sector?

Posted by: Turn 2 at December 12, 2025 01:20 PM (CyFyf)

245 217 How about 'Jumping to Conclusions'? I'd watch that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I've invented a jumping to conclusions mat. It has different conclusions and you can jump to them.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2025

Can we put this on a trampoline? How fun would this be?

Posted by: Piper at December 12, 2025 01:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

246 Gavin Newsom had the balls to announce he was cutting street cleaning in half and the result would be cleaner streets.

That takes chutzpah.

Analyzing their rhetoric is much simpler if you begin with the presumption they think you're stupid.
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Their presumption is that you will comply. And mostly, we do.

Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 01:20 PM (TN0g+)

247 239 "No, you misunderstand -- I mean, if alien-aliens, like from outer space, come here, should we give them all free health care?"

"I did say 'universal,' didn't I?"
.......

But they have green blood.
Posted by: wth

California taxpayers will fund McCoy Clinics in every neighborhood, where we patch up rock-eating underground aliens with silica cement.

Posted by: zombie at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (oraVG)

248 >>> Its called Twister. Jan Brady and I got it on playing Twister.
Posted by: Pudinhead

A friend of mine in elementary school had a crush on Eve Plumb, who played Jan.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

I don't know how it happened, but the attractive dodgeball bicurious chick Christine Taylor is the original Marsha for me now. Somehow she has overwritten my brady bunch core memory location and I just have her now.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:21 PM (3uBP9)

249 The dem mentality is "never let a crisis go to waste."

Obamacare was just
- Identify something we can sell as a vital bill to pass
- Lard it full of all our grift.
- Name it something clever
- Pass bill.

Like "Inflation Reduction Act", the "Affordable Care Act" was just a name and nothing in the bill had to do with that. It was all about locking the industry into their socialist plans.

It was a negotiation between the Medical Industrial Complex and the Democrat Party over how they were going to divvy up the loot.

And what bothered the Republicans is that they were not getting any.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (uxVjF)

250 225 BREAKING: Nicki Minaj DECIMATES Gavin Newsom for saying "I want to see trans kids"

She killed 1/10 of him? The other 9/10s remain dangerous, no doubt, shambling on.

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox

Because the meaning of words must be fixed in stone and may never, ever change.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)

They can also be misused.

But that's not really the point. The point is that this kidspeak ALLCAPS clickbait phrasing, whether DECIMATES or DESTROYED or SOMETHING ELSE is really dumb. You click on those kind of links and it's always someone who's just disagreeing with someone else in sneering Daily Show fashion without any substance. I don't disagree with what Minaj said here, but there's nothing particularly insightful or devastating about what she said. No one's mind has been changed. It's just some seals clapping on the Internet.

TL;DR version: If a solar flare destroys modern life, I won't miss this kind of inanity.

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 01:22 PM (C24tU)

251 There are infinite rationalizations to comply with the imaginary imperatives the Legal Cult has invented, and they lead to where we are today. Administration has a choice to be either a speed bump, or a change in direction.
Posted by: rhomboid
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That is a Crossing the Rubicon situation and you have to consider then what will be done in a future Democrat administration.

The problem, I think, is that our ruling elite now simply are done with popular democracy and taking them on is about on par with Caesar facing the decaying Roman Republic's Senate diktats.

It is actually far easier to replace an individual tyrant than a system of tyranny unless you want to go Sulla on them. Proscriptions are required and taking their generational wealth away from them.

Then any such ruler will never be able to sleep without one eye open.

Cromwell had it easier. He only had the Royalists to fight. The Roman Civil War after Caesar died was much more prolonged and arguably act 1 happened when Sulla and his co ruler duked it out.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:23 PM (WDjG6)

252 "I'm proud of that. I believe in universal health care."

--

Then you're going on it too, you greasy sack of garbage. Not some special, carved out elite plan. The same damned one you want to herd the unwashed masses into.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 12, 2025 01:24 PM (qBdHI)

253 So a space alien comes into the ER with a broken arm.
Doctor says: "Well at least you still have 5 good ones."

Posted by: wth at December 12, 2025 01:24 PM (v0R5T)

254 219 Waaaay back, Nat Lamp proposed 'Running Amok' as an Olympic event. They opined that the Turks would be a shoo-in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2025 01:07 PM

How about 'Jumping to Conclusions'? I'd watch that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

No love for dildo tossing?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

https://youtu.be/9BkwnGq2yaA

New Olympic sport?...fast forward to 1:30 after the first minute...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 01:28 PM (ynpvh)

255 And what bothered the Republicans is that they were not getting any.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Eh, plenty of them actually did which is why it wasn't repealed. Big Hospital, Big Pharma (headed by former GOP Rep. Billy Tauzin), and Big Insurance all got a piece of the turkey and that continued throughout today via campaign contributions, etc. Look up Bill Cassidy's campaign contributions for example among others.

The medicine industrial complex (17.6 pct GDP) makes our defense complex (3.3) look weak politically and financially. Even the education complex is only at (5.4 pct).

American public got the bones and scraps of that spending.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 01:30 PM (WDjG6)

The “Affordability Crisis” - Home Prices and Apartment Rents Are Decreasing as Deportations Increase

Let’s talk some more about the “affordability crisis” that the media and President Trump’s critics are hammering him about. As I keep mentioning, it is a ridiculously unfair argument that because overall prices haven’t deflated from the runaway inflation of the Biden-era, Trump is to blame.

But some prices are actually coming down. As Ace and I have been discussing, gasoline prices are historically low thanks to Trump’s drill-baby-drill energy policy.

But the largest item in most household budgets is the mortgage or rent. So how are those prices doing? They’re coming down too.

“Home Prices Are Poised to Dip in 22 U.S. Cities Next Year, a New Analysis Says” [CBS News – 12/04/2025]

This piece mentions that inventory of homes has expanded, which would certainly impact the supply/demand equation, and that prices are returning “back down to earth” following the “frenzy” of the Covid-era.

But it also mentions that some of these metropolitan areas simply have “lighter demand” now than in recent years. Interesting. It’s almost as if there is some other force affecting supply and demand of housing units if there is suddenly lighter demand for housing.

Rental housing is also seeing rents drop and vacancies rise:

“Rent Decline Deepens as Vacancy Rates Hit Record High” [CRE Daily – 12/04/2025]

Per this article, the median national rent payment is declining, including 1% in just the past month alone. In some places the decrease is quite significant. For instance, in Austin the median rent has decreased by 6.8% in the past year. Meanwhile, the national vacancy rate for multi-family properties (e.g. apartments) just hit a record high in November, with 7.2% of units unleased.

This article offers some explanations for the decline in rents and the glut of unleased apartments, including a cooling labor market, and hundreds of thousands of new housing units coming online in the past year.

Yes, new units becoming available for lease certainly is an input into the supply/demand equation, but even in a cooling labor market, people need a place to live.

Again, it just seems that there might be another force at work here that is not being discussed.

Oh…

“Trump's second term sees 2.5 million illegal aliens leave, shattering historic records” [CBS Austin – 12/11/2025]

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday that an estimated 2.5 million illegal aliens have left the country since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Over 600,000 aliens have been deported and another 1.9 million have self-deported. Those 2.5 million people were occupying a lot of housing that is now competing for new tenants.

The “affordability crisis” is a term being thrown around by those who want to sabotage the Trump presidency and help Democrats defeat Republicans in the mid-terms next November. But by causing millions of illegal aliens to depart the country, the Trump administration is actually taking powerful action to reduce the cost of housing and shelter. Coincidentally, most of the NeverTrump critics trying to kneecap the Trump agenda with the “affordability” issue are hell-bent on stopping deportations and throwing the border back open to illegal labor.

Those people parroting the “affordability crisis” talking points need to be challenged to admit that Donald Trump’s deportations and closed border are bringing down the cost of housing.

Reducing the cost of housing is the highest priority when talking about “affordability,” and President Trump’s policies are making it happen.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 St?

Posted by: Clay at December 12, 2025 11:00 AM (rIjnE)

2
ESPONJA!!!1!!11

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 11:00 AM (tljrc)

3 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

4 Nyet.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

5 Those people parroting

Hey don't blame us, it's still $20 same as in town.

Posted by: parrots at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM (Kt19C)

6 Morning.

When does my rent go down? I want my rent to go down.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM (1Yy3c)

7 You know what I want
You know what I ne ne ne need.

Posted by: Jesse Duplantis at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM (y3u3n)

8 The critics want a third world country?

Move to Venezuela.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:04 AM (MeJZi)

9 I keep seeing the 1.6M self-deportations figure, but no explanation as to its origin. I'd say a bit of caution is in order.

From Buck's cite:

the number of illegal immigrants who have self-deported is just an estimation as a vast majority of migrants leaving without informing the government. At President Donald Trump’s six-month mark in office, the Department of Homeland Security reported 150,000 deportations with a combined total of 1.6 million illegal immigrants having left the country. However, DHS only recorded roughly 13,000 migrants who have self-deported. These self-deportations were tracked by the CBP Home App created by the Department, which gave illegal immigrants a free flight and a $1,000 bonus for leaving the country.

https://is.gd/Gi0Smo

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

10 Robert

Probably when Tres de Aragula moves in

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (MeJZi)

11 At this point one should assume that everyone is pushing a narrative until proven otherwise. The reason this is the only place I post is because I recognize people here, and even if I disagree with them, I know that they are just eyore-ish naturally and aren't a Nigerian bot or a paid Indian posting disinfo. Add to this the inability of Dims or 'principled' Never-Trumpers to ever admit their true motivations, and you get an internet filled with bilge.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (Dg7ng)

12 Our home in Western WA dropped $6000 in the last month according to Zillow. We purchased it in 2000 for $350k, it now lists between 1M - 1.3M. Time to sell and move to the southwest where it rarely rains.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (abIsI)

13 Goddammit. Iowahawk nearly made me choke on my coffee.

https://xcancel.com/iowahawkblog/. status/1999174078012248080

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:07 AM (1Yy3c)

14 Willowed:
So, I look him up and, he's just released a new movie!

Buuuuut, almost all of the critics, straight up hate it, which makes me wonder if he somehow violated some libtardian principle and that set their hair on fire.

Christian Toto gives it a middling recommendation, so we may go see it. Maybe no. Just wait for streaming.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

I will never quite understand this Brooks' popularity.

I mean, Broadcast News is fine. But, little more than that. And Hollywood loved him, and his movies made good money.

They always feel very middling to me, though I don't think I've seen As Good As It Gets all the way through.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

Ah, well. De gustibus and all that.

His writing is generally great. And I think his great gift is to make people feel"smart" for lack of a better word, while watching his movies filled with articulate people who still feel real, and you get to ride along.

He kind of reminds me of Paddy Chayefsky in that regard, except Ol Pads give you screaming drama instead of Ol Brooke's light comedy.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM (iJfKG)

15 I've been blown.

Posted by: The Margins at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM (Y1sOo)

16 Probably when Tres de Aragula moves in
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (MeJZi)

Oh no...the cartels have gone full vegan!

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM (1Yy3c)

17 Amazing... jettison the layabout illegals who were occupying otherwise rentable or saleable properties and the housing market cools and becomes affordable.

How... odd.

- experts everywhere -

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM (NwnyJ)

18 Again, it just seems that there might be another force at work here that is not being discussed."

Let's not forget the gub's influence pushing for more multi family units, especially in those Reich wing suburbs...

Posted by: man at December 12, 2025 11:09 AM (XuXeR)

19 Free or subsidized housing for parasitic people would drive up prices and decrease availability of residences. You may be on to something Master Throckmorton.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:10 AM (pDt9x)

20 Interesting. It’s almost as if there is some other force affecting supply and demand of housing units if there is suddenly lighter demand for housing.

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Coincidentally, there have been numerous reports nationwide of less dogs and cats being eaten.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:10 AM (25a1J)

21 https://xcancel.com/iowahawkblog/. status/1999174078012248080
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus

I get a "Page not found."

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

22 Not saying this to upset anyone but I can't even quantify how much I hated As Good As It Gets.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (/+FOE)

23 Please deport the Somalian welfare teat suckers from Columbus. Should help rental prices there.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)

24 I get a "Page not found."

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

Take out the space and the period

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (/+FOE)

25 Unless you own your own place and pay a mortgage, rent is the biggest scam and blight in our social existence.

Profit is one thing, homelessness is another. Do you hate your fellow man, a working citizen in the country we all love, enough to deny him a dwelling?

Interesting dilemma. YMMV.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (1zOXE)

26 I'm blessed to not have a mortgage but Colorado policies (thanks wino moms) have made the property insurance costs crazy high. I think they made a rule for homes that the insurance company has to pay cost to replace the home instead of keeping it the home owners responsibility to pay attention and increase $ coverage as needed after the Superior fire in 2021 a few years ago left a lot of owners unable to rebuild what with Boulder county imposing costly regulations plus construction supplies still feeling a covid pinch. The people who lost their homes get no help from this after the fact rule, it just raises insurance prices. And of course illegals on the road, and the general commie mindset of "if I do something stupid and get hurt someone needs to give me $$$$" make car and liability insurance expensive.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 12, 2025 11:12 AM (hhkIi)

27 22 Not saying this to upset anyone but I can't even quantify how much I hated As Good As It Gets.
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It was the one and only time I ever watched a movie solely because other people I was acquainted to and not friends with gushed about how good it was. I found it a real chore to get through. After that I always assume that normie recommended films are shit and avoid them.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dg7ng)

28 22 Not saying this to upset anyone but I can't even quantify how much I hated As Good As It Gets.
__

Is it because the actress who plays the lady who uses a hammer to break the writer's ankles gets naked in a hot tub in this movie?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)

29 22 Not saying this to upset anyone but I can't even quantify how much I hated As Good As It Gets.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (/+FOE)

Uncountably Terrible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Vq1pX)

30 I get a "Page not found."
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

https://tinyurl.com/Pagentfound

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (1Yy3c)

31 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (MeJZi)

Hi Anna!

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (/+FOE)

32 The trend of affordability is good news here. Maybe I can move up from this water heater carton to a full-size refrigerator carton before Spring!

Posted by: Wonderful Wino at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (oftw2)

33 Not saying this to upset anyone but I can't even quantify how much I hated As Good As It Gets.
Posted by: ...

Is that the one with Nicholson and Helen Hunt?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

34 Probably when Tres de Aragula moves in
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (MeJZi)

Oh no...the cartels have gone full vegan!
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:08 AM

Forget fentanyl, gringo, have you seen the price of arugula lately?

Posted by: TdA at December 12, 2025 11:15 AM (kgE5c)

35 As I keep mentioning, it is a ridiculously unfair argument that because overall prices haven’t deflated from the runaway inflation of the Biden-era, Trump is to blame.
_________
While that is absolutely correct and true, it is also beyond the grasp of most people. I've been seeing this for over 50 years. They are unshakably convinced that ending inflation entails lowering prices.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 11:15 AM (s0JqF)

36 Not saying this to upset anyone but I can't even quantify how much I hated As Good As It Gets.
__

Is it because the actress who plays the lady who uses a hammer to break the writer's ankles gets naked in a hot tub in this movie?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)

Wrong movie. Isn't that something like "About Schmidt"?

But, yeah, AS is a terrible movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:15 AM (iJfKG)

37 I agree with all of this, of course millions of illegals plopping down in the US are going to effect rental and housing prices. Especially entry level ones. Add in groceries , food prices, cars, social services, energy etc.

But when you're talking about say 1-2% decrease in rent, I think more needs to be done on this front.

I keep saying that conservatives need to be more "populist" when it comes to Wall Street's newfound love of single family housing and owning rental properties. Also, wrangle in the short term rentals. So many starter houses have been gobbled up by investors. Make this a less appealing investment and watch a huge amount of inventory become available.

Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 11:15 AM (eIzlH)

38 Not saying this to upset anyone but I can't even quantify how much I hated As Good As It Gets.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (/+FOE)

Wails...gnashes teeth...rends garments...
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Is it because the actress who plays the lady who uses a hammer to break the writer's ankles gets naked in a hot tub in this movie?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)

I think you're thinking of About Schmidt. As Good As It Gets has a very delicious Helen Hunt who also happens to be in a (tasteful) state of undress.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (1Yy3c)

39 Please deport the Somalian welfare teat suckers from Columbus. Should help rental prices there.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

And turns from the extreme left lane on I270 to the northbound ramp of I71 after they have come to a complete dead stop.

They destroyed more than a few of the Westerville schools.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (cYBz/)

40 Is it because the actress who plays the lady who uses a hammer to break the writer's ankles gets naked in a hot tub in this movie?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)

OMG I hated that one too!!!!

Are they not the same movie?

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (/+FOE)

41 the number of illegal immigrants who have self-deported is just an estimation as a vast majority of migrants leaving without informing the government.

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I wonder if there's a way at the macro level to analyze the rate of decline in "remittances" to their home countries as a factor in helping to better determine the estimates of self-deportations?

Where's Elon and DOGE when you need them?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (25a1J)

42 At WaPo: "Robot smaller than grain of salt can ‘sense, think and act’"

Saltgrain-Sized Robot thought balloon: "Welp, this sucks balls."

Also at WaPo, news everybody can use: "Boxed wine is a pro move for holiday parties."

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (GHIyr)

43 Is that the one with Nicholson and Helen Hunt?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

yes.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (iJfKG)

44 If housing prices come down, we may not need a cut in the Fed rate.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:17 AM (rbvCR)

45 I looked up the movie under discussion. Nearly 30 years old. Nice cast. All of them still alive, I think. Doesn’t Nicholson have dementia now?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:17 AM (pDt9x)

46 Housing prices dropping...Isn't that one of the supposed goals of the Left? They should be cheering, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:17 AM (ynpvh)

47 Is this a movie thread already?? I can’t afford to go to the movies anymore… affordability crisis….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 11:17 AM (YobFY)

48 Is that the one with Nicholson and Helen Hunt?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

I think so

I genuinely confuse it with About Schmidt but I didn't like either one. It may be that I hated About Schmidt, and As Good As It Gets was just one I didn't like. I don't know anything anymore.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (/+FOE)

49 Is this a movie thread already?? I can’t afford to go to the movies anymore… affordability crisis….

I don't go anymore either...donwanna crisis.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (Riz8t)

50 [snip]

Add to this the inability of Dims or 'principled' Never-Trumpers to ever admit their true motivations, and you get an internet filled with bilge.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (Dg7ng)

-------------

True -- and one of the reasons I love this place.

At least our future AI Overlords aren't being "trained" on all that internet bilge ... wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (25a1J)

51 42 At WaPo: "Robot smaller than grain of salt can ‘sense, think and act’"

Saltgrain-Sized Robot thought balloon: "Welp, this sucks balls."

Also at WaPo, news everybody can use: "Boxed wine is a pro move for holiday parties."

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:16 AM (GHIyr)

I know someone, for Halloween, dressed up as a box wine. It had wine inside the box and a spigot out front at lower waist height...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (ynpvh)

52 As I keep mentioning, it is a ridiculously unfair argument that because overall prices haven’t deflated from the runaway inflation of the Biden-era, Trump is to blame.

===

From a purely optics standpoint, Trump vigorously raising tariffs early in his term was not good timing.

The biggest reason Trump got elected was because of the cost of living under Biden.

The tariffs are not responsible for why things are still expensive, but even among friends/family I have that voted Trump, they blame a lot of the new reality of high prices on "tariffs".

Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (eIzlH)

53 OT: Brady, Giffords and Everytown Join DOJ Against Your 2A Rights

https://tinyurl.com/49ss6cu7

Most gun friendly admin evah!!!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 11:19 AM (abIsI)

54 Did Nicholson ever not have dementia ?

Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (van9r)

55 When does my rent go down? I want my rent to go down.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM

At least your rent CAN go down. My mortgage payment isn't going to decrease until I have enough equity to refinance, and that assumes that will make sense at some point. Fortunately, I bought something that I could afford.

Well, pretty much, anyway.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (Zst8M)

56 I wonder if there's a way at the macro level to analyze the rate of decline in "remittances" to their home countries as a factor in helping to better determine the estimates of self-deportations?

Where's Elon and DOGE when you need them?

IIRC, remittances are a very big part of Western Union's business now. The government probably has tried to get the data, but I'm not sure if any kind of legal jeopardy would attach to WU if they complied.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

57 Thx Buck. You want to hear commie stubbornness in housing? My home city is the first in upstate NY with rent control. The reasons are 1) a mass influx of idiot leftists from NYC and 2) illegals. There is some ridiculous formula as to when they don't apply. Recently the formula indicated that rent control might no longer be necessary. How deal with it? Consider passing a resolution to ignore the formula.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (D+mpw)

58 53 OT: Brady, Giffords and Everytown Join DOJ Against Your 2A Rights

https://tinyurl.com/49ss6cu7

Most gun friendly admin evah!!!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 11:19 AM (abIsI)

Obama was very gun-friendly, just not to US Citizens. Mexican Narcos got plenty of Fast-n-Furious guns...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (ynpvh)

59 However, DHS only recorded roughly 13,000 migrants who have self-deported. These self-deportations were tracked by the CBP Home App created by the Department, which gave illegal immigrants a free flight and a $1,000 bonus for leaving the country.

https://is.gd/Gi0Smo
Posted by: Archimedes
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This has been correlated with worker numbers from DoL which tracks such things as native versus foreign employment.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:21 AM (WDjG6)

60 t WaPo: "Robot smaller than grain of salt can ‘sense, think and act’"

Saltgrain-Sized Robot thought balloon: "Welp, this sucks balls."

Oh, boo hoo.

Posted by: Capsule to be swallowed as a replacement for a colonoscopy at December 12, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

61 Everyone should have a free apartment, right? The state will pay for it. The energy for said apartment will be free to. Oh, and everyone should have a guaranteed job, and a guaranteed wage, enough to ensure their existence. There may be some inconveniences because of the system, but it is for the common good. Comrade.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (pDt9x)

62 Did Nicholson ever not have dementia ?
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (van9r)

he was never the same after the lobotomy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (PSEDc)

63 The movie "ET" sucked and still sucks. There, I said it.

Posted by: Peak Pique at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (qUkBO)

64 55 When does my rent go down? I want my rent to go down.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM

At least your rent CAN go down. My mortgage payment isn't going to decrease until I have enough equity to refinance, and that assumes that will make sense at some point. Fortunately, I bought something that I could afford.

Well, pretty much, anyway.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (Zst8M)

My mortgage company keeps calling me and sending me mail trying to entice me to refi with a cash-out. F'em. I've told them time and time again, I don't want to take out equity from my house and end up owing more, and their fees for a refi don't make it worthwhile yet.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

65 Housing costs in my area peeked in spring of this year - before Trump's deportations started.

And this is a core thing - price is highly dependent on demand

So if you remove people that need housing prices will decline.

Supply and Demand.

Now government can ease housing restrictions as well, but people don't generally like that. In my blue area people are constantly complaining about their towns becoming cities. Well idiots if you vote to bring in tens of millions of people they have to live somewhere.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (sKqQm)

66 Goddammit. Iowahawk nearly made me choke on my coffee.

xcancel.com/iowahawkblog/
status/1999174078012248080

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:07 AM (1Yy3c)

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I've never heard of "shiplap" before.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)

67 'Reducing the cost of housing is the highest priority when talking about “affordability,” and President Trump’s policies are making it happen.'

Why the scare quotes around "affordability?" Either it's a real problem that Trump's wise policies are fixing, or it's a Dem hoax to be scare-quoted. Pick one.

IMHO, things are not very affordable right now, no scare quotes needed.

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (GHIyr)

68 63 The movie "ET" sucked and still sucks. There, I said it.

Posted by: Peak Pique at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (qUkBO)

Kumala Whoris played ET?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

69 Well maybe job opportunity will increase as well

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (Ffvt8)

70 I think what's driving the affordability issue more than anything is the spiraling cost of health care, which some in the media probably know but won't really do a deep dive on, since a lot of it's being driven by Obamacare.

Either way, it is a problem, and whatever the pros and cons of the tariff issue, I think (hindsight is 20/20, as always) Trump would have done better to hammer that instead. Though it's an open question whether the GOP would have given him any support.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (lHPJf)

71 Rent, the play.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (pDt9x)

72 Ironically, controlling Bidenflation raises housing costs in the short term.

Why?

Higher inflation rates mean higher loan rates mean fewer buyers.

So as loan rates go down there are more potential buyers and therefore higher prices.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (sKqQm)

73 The movie "ET" sucked and still sucks. There, I said it.
Posted by: Peak Pique

Yeah, I never understood all the ballyhoo about that flick.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

74 've never heard of "shiplap" before.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)

Tell me you never watched HGTV without telling me you never watched HGTV?

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:24 AM (/+FOE)

75 I've never heard of "shiplap" before.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)

=====

You obviously don't watch HGTV.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:24 AM (DRSnL)

76 I've never heard of "shiplap" before.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe

That's the most jarring statement we've ever heard.

Posted by: Chip, Joanna at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (oftw2)

77 Republicans in Congress have a solution.

They're going to reveal it once they've:
- passed union protections for federal workers
- extended the Obamacare subsidies
- held hearings on whether Santa Clause is a socialist threat
- passed amnesty to speedboat fishermen trying to deliver powdered "fish" to Cuba

Then, and only then, can they get around to helping American citizens.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (HXT0k)

78 There are a lot of new apartments and homes coming on line in the next 12 months or so. Many were delayed for years during covid. So this is yet another market anomaly the negative effects of which you can blame on covid hysteria.

If you drive around most major cities, you'll see tons of residential construction. At least two new high-rise condos are going up around my place in Manhattan. One in particular I know was delayed 24 months due in part to covid.

These are not totally "new" apartments, as older apartment buildings were knocked down to build these, but they are bigger (more rooms) and almost certainly more high-end.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (iFTx/)

79 Helen Hunt, the Amy Schumer of Sally Fields.

Posted by: Peak Pique at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (qUkBO)

80 71 Rent, the play.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:23 AM (pDt9x)

That was gay as fk, literally. A song extolling the joys of Anal Sex? No thanks. Only watched it because wife wanted to watch it, and afterwards, never again.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (ynpvh)

81 The best shiplap is always made of Bamboo. Lush, fast growing sustainable bamboo. Did you know that Bamboo is really grass?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (pDt9x)

82 From a purely optics standpoint, Trump vigorously raising tariffs early in his term was not good timing.

The biggest reason Trump got elected was because of the cost of living under Biden.

The tariffs are not responsible for why things are still expensive, but even among friends/family I have that voted Trump, they blame a lot of the new reality of high prices on "tariffs".
Posted by: Leupold at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (eIzlH)

It was a calculated risk; the fastest way to get employment moving up and costs moving down was to rapidly repair the massive trade imbalances between the US and the rest of the world, and shaking everyone up with the tarriffs was by far the fastest way to do that.

But it risked the bad optics, as you say. So whether it pays off or not depends on whether the economy begins to noticably improve. I actually think the chances are very good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (uWKK8)

83 But some prices are actually coming down. As Ace and I have been discussing, gasoline prices are historically low thanks to Trump’s drill-baby-drill energy policy.

What does "historically low" mean? Prices are not even back to the low national averages that existed during the Obama Administration and Trump 45 Administration years.

Over 600,000 aliens have been deported and another 1.9 million have self-deported. Those 2.5 million people were occupying a lot of housing that is now competing for new tenants.

That's a great start. But considering there were about 40-50 million illegal aliens in the country -- with I think 10 million brought in under the Biden/Obama Administration from January 2021 to January 2025 -- 2.5 million is only 5% of the total and 25% of what came in under Biden/Obama.

At this rate, we'll only be rid of the 10 million brought in under Biden by the end of President Trump's 2nd term.

Which is good, of course. But not anywhere near sufficient. 100% of illegal aliens need to be deported asap. And if Democrats take over Congress in January 2027 and a MAGA Republican does not win the Presidency in 2028...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (P5BPp)

84 I've never heard of "shiplap" before.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)

That's because you are heterosexual and male.

I had to look it up. It's apparently a froo froo term for siding.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (1Yy3c)

85 Republicans in Congress have a solution.

They're going to reveal it once they've:
- passed union protections for federal workers
- extended the Obamacare subsidies
- held hearings on whether Santa Clause is a socialist threat
- passed amnesty to speedboat fishermen trying to deliver powdered "fish" to Cuba

Then, and only then, can they get around to helping American citizens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (HXT0k)

If by that you mean "issue a strongly worded resolution about the necessity of helping American citizens," then yes.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (lHPJf)

86 I think what's driving the affordability issue more than anything is the spiraling cost of health care, which some in the media probably know but won't really do a deep dive on, since a lot of it's being driven by Obamacare.

All that free and reduced cost healthcare is paid for by someone. And that's why people that aren't on welfare have seen their costs explode.

Get rid of the free riders and costs will start to go down.

And this is the only significant way, outside of rationing (which Europe does) to bring costs down.

Yes you can lower paperwork (which the government/insurance companies don't want to do). Yes you can mandate price transparency. And some other small things.

But if you want to get prices down for health insurance/health care costs you need to remove all those illegals and reduce the number of Americans getting freebies as well

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (sKqQm)

87 81 The best shiplap is always made of Bamboo. Lush, fast growing sustainable bamboo. Did you know that Bamboo is really grass?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (pDt9x)

Can you smoke it?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

88 "controlling Bidenflation"

Will there come a point in the next three years when the current administration can finally take responsibility for the current state of the economy?

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (GHIyr)

89 The best shiplap is always made of Bamboo. Lush, fast growing sustainable bamboo. Did you know that Bamboo is really grass?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (pDt9x)

And very sensual.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (3h4I5)

90 Everyone should have a free apartment, right? The state will pay for it. The energy for said apartment will be free to. Oh, and everyone should have a guaranteed job, and a guaranteed wage, enough to ensure their existence. There may be some inconveniences because of the system, but it is for the common good. Comrade.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (pDt9x)

and we can go down and serenade our political betters with songs like Ol' Man Ribah while they sit on their verandahs and sip mint juleps on those sultry summer evenings.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (rbvCR)

91 What about the trucks and cars that will be back on the market once the former owner has been deported?

Or are we going to hear a lot of whining from TriColor and the idiots that underwrote the sub-prime debt as they demand that our feckless politicians bail them out?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (rgGn5)

92 I just discovered another beautiful ginger actress, whom I had never heard of before: Sarah Rafferty. Yum.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

93 TJM:

I started to watch your latest vid, saved it to one of my lists due to time constraint.

I have only one thing to say about your vid:

"It's a Wonderful Christmas Suit"

Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (dCxaZ)

94 84 I've never heard of "shiplap" before.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)

That's because you are heterosexual and male.

I had to look it up. It's apparently a froo froo term for siding.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (1Yy3c)

Shiplap is to ships as Rocky Mountain Oysters are to oysters...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (ynpvh)

95 75 I've never heard of "shiplap" before.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)
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You obviously don't watch HGTV.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:24 AM (DRSnL)

funny, I lived in a house with shiplap siding for 20 years or therabouts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:28 AM (uWKK8)

96 I just discovered another beautiful ginger actress, whom I had never heard of before: Sarah Rafferty. Yum.

She was in Suits, but she never did much for me.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

97 My understanding also over the past decade (seemed to start with the Covid PsyOps but likely was even decades before that) what contributed much to skyrocketing rentals was the oligopoly asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street buying up available homes and turning them into rentals.

Remember the old (Klaus Scwab and WEF?) "You will own nothing and you will be happy" bullshit?

Anyone know if that's still going on?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (25a1J)

98 I keep saying that conservatives need to be more "populist" when it comes to Wall Street's newfound love of single family housing and owning rental properties.
Posted by: Leupold
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Deny big institutional investors any tax deduction for interest on single family home mortgages. In a sense, the leverage that large entities get from abnormally low borrowing rates compared with individuals means they have an advantage in offering cash money on homes versus individuals in hot markets.

The other way is have localities strictly regulate rental housing. Most of the landlords like Blackrock are shitty landlords that often buy shitty new development homes that instantly require maintenance--hvac, quality of roofing, plumbing, and other such things are often subpar, which leads in turn to insta slum. Blackrock and others were essentially relying on govt subsidies like Section 8, refugee settlement, and others to fill their insta slums and like a NYC landlord, promptly ignore maintenance to goose their profit.

They enshittify areas pretty quickly while doing the legal bribery and canoodling with developers and local pols. Often affordable housing subsidies as well.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (WDjG6)

99 I just discovered another beautiful ginger actress, whom I had never heard of before: Sarah Rafferty. Yum.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

She's no Karen Gillan, but she's alright.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (lHPJf)

100 Shiplap is a fun word because it has both "shi" and "plap" in it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (Dv3i1)

101 That's because you are heterosexual and male.

I had to look it up. It's apparently a froo froo term for siding.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (1Yy3c)

That is because you never worked in construction, remodeling or anything that didn't just require sheets of OSB

Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (rbvCR)

102 87 81 The best shiplap is always made of Bamboo. Lush, fast growing sustainable bamboo. Did you know that Bamboo is really grass?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (pDt9x)

Can you smoke it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

Of course. Bamboo has a multitude of uses. It might be nature’s perfect plant. Life is like Bamboo, when you think about it. I need you to think about it. Everyone should contemplate Bamboo, its’ nature and purpose.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (pDt9x)

103 The tariffs are not responsible for why things are still expensive, but even among friends/family I have that voted Trump, they blame a lot of the new reality of high prices on "tariffs".

--

I'm no economist, but I'm pretty sure that tariffs don't cause inflation. But that seems to be the leftish/Vichy Republican take.

Posted by: Tortured Eardrum Society at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (vqA1l)

104 But if you want to get prices down for health insurance/health care costs you need to remove all those illegals and reduce the number of Americans getting freebies as well
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (sKqQm)

Canada has figured out to lower the cost of health care dramatically!

Kill anyone who gets sick.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (uWKK8)

105 Go, Greased Lightnin', you're coasting through the shiplap trials...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (MSlZp)

106 I've never heard of "shiplap" before.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)

That's because you are heterosexual and male.

Right? Men, real men, do clinker built (overlapping).

Posted by: Vikings at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

107 What about the trucks and cars that will be back on the market once the former owner has been deported? . . .
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

That reminds me - never, and I mean never, consider a used car previously owned by an Indian person/family. The person offering it for sale will lie about every detail of it including color.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (cYBz/)

108 101 That's because you are heterosexual and male.

I had to look it up. It's apparently a froo froo term for siding.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (1Yy3c)

That is because you never worked in construction, remodeling or anything that didn't just require sheets of OSB

Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM (rbvCR)

I ain't down with OSB, yeah you know me.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (ynpvh)

109 Oh, and everyone should have a guaranteed job

I saw some lefty pol talking about this and the reporter actually did his job once and asked, "Well what if someone doesn't want the job the government offers them?"

And the answer was textbook marxism - "well of course they'd HAVE to take that job."

All these young socialists think they will be a rapper/writer/philosopher for the government aren't going to be happy when they find out they'll be digging ditches.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (sKqQm)

110 I wonder if there's a way at the macro level to analyze the rate of decline in "remittances" to their home countries as a factor in helping to better determine the estimates of self-deportations?

Where's Elon and DOGE when you need them?

IIRC, remittances are a very big part of Western Union's business now. The government probably has tried to get the data, but I'm not sure if any kind of legal jeopardy would attach to WU if they complied.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)
______

It's basically all of WU's business. So much so, that as soon as the recent restrictions on remittances were announced, the company made a splashy announcement that it was (suddenly!) focusing on finding new revenue streams.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

111 109 Oh, and everyone should have a guaranteed job

I saw some lefty pol talking about this and the reporter actually did his job once and asked, "Well what if someone doesn't want the job the government offers them?"

And the answer was textbook marxism - "well of course they'd HAVE to take that job."

All these young socialists think they will be a rapper/writer/philosopher for the government aren't going to be happy when they find out they'll be digging ditches.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (sKqQm)

Wasn't the quote "a remunerative job"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

112 That reminds me - never, and I mean never, consider a used car previously owned by an Indian person/family. The person offering it for sale will lie about every detail of it including color.

Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (cYBz/)

I assume we're talking IT here, not casino.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (lHPJf)

113 Shiplap is to ships as Rocky Mountain Oysters are to oysters...

It's a perfectly good method for building wooden boats but that ain't it in the picture of Tucker.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (3nLb4)

114 Posted by: Chip, Joanna at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (oftw2)

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I wish you two would eff off already.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (DRSnL)

115 >>>Everyone should have a free apartment, right? The state will pay for it. The energy for said apartment will be free to. Oh, and everyone should have a guaranteed job, and a guaranteed wage, enough to ensure their existence. There may be some inconveniences because of the system, but it is for the common good. Comrade.

Posted by: tubal

>I like your thinking, Comrade. You may have free reign on my daughter and wife as well. A good citizen is a mindless, compliant citizen.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (1zOXE)

116 German shiplap is the classiest siding ever, by the way

By the way, that isn't shiplap, that is beadboard.

BEADBOARD David, get your s___ together!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (rbvCR)

117 Anyone know if that's still going on?
Posted by: ShainS
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Yes. But in part because they relied on a raft of government subsidies and low cost capital to house new illegals, refugees, and Section 8 and getting breaks on zoning, etc. via affordable housing mandates.

And they are proving to be shit landlords skimping on maintenance, screwing average people on payments, late fees, etc., and so on. Basically just like big airlines degraded flying, big Tech degraded customer support, and so on.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (WDjG6)

118 "Interesting. It’s almost as if there is some other force affecting supply and demand of housing units if there is suddenly lighter demand for housing. "

I thought Dems scheming, price controls and screaming about affordability or whatever is what set prices.

Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (GUOwU)

119 109 Oh, and everyone should have a guaranteed job

I saw some lefty pol talking about this and the reporter actually did his job once and asked, "Well what if someone doesn't want the job the government offers them?"

And the answer was textbook marxism - "well of course they'd HAVE to take that job."

All these young socialists think they will be a rapper/writer/philosopher for the government aren't going to be happy when they find out they'll be digging ditches.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:30 AM (sKqQm)

Cleaning shitters is not their dream? Oh well, there’s always Walmart stocker gig to aspire to.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (pDt9x)

120 I understand that bamboo is damn near impossible to eradicate once it becomes established.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

121 120 I understand that bamboo is damn near impossible to eradicate once it becomes established.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

Sounds like commies in government...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

122 Decreasing number of illegal aliens. Lowering housing costs and increasing wage. Obviously not related. 🤣

Posted by: MacRadDoc at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (+OjEW)

123 I understand that bamboo is damn near impossible to eradicate once it becomes established.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

Sounds like commies in government...

And superhero movies.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

124 IIRC, remittances are a very big part of Western Union's business now. The government probably has tried to get the data, but I'm not sure if any kind of legal jeopardy would attach to WU if they complied.
Posted by: Archimedes

They don't have much of a choice. Fincen regulations are pretty broad. It is just that the Eye of Donald has not turned toward remittances yet. Bessent though has them on his radar scope.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:34 AM (WDjG6)

125 It's basically all of WU's business. So much so, that as soon as the recent restrictions on remittances were announced, the company made a splashy announcement that it was (suddenly!) focusing on finding new revenue streams.

Second look at telegrams?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

126 122 Decreasing number of illegal aliens. Lowering housing costs and increasing wage. Obviously not related. 🤣

Posted by: MacRadDoc at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (+OjEW)

Sounds like a disaster for GOPe and Dems...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

127 It's basically all of WU's business. So much so, that as soon as the recent restrictions on remittances were announced, the company made a splashy announcement that it was (suddenly!) focusing on finding new revenue streams.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

The other part of it is that Jamie Dimon just admitted that JPMorgan Chase is using Crypto and Bitcoin to do bank transfers now. Very large transfers that don't use SWIFT.

Crypto means WU has no real role in the banking world.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (rbvCR)

128 80
‘ Only watched it because wife wanted to watch it, and afterwards, never again.’

I let my wife watch that one on her own.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (jbnUc)

129 120 I understand that bamboo is damn near impossible to eradicate once it becomes established.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

Bamboo, like Life, will find a way. Bamboo has purpose, and is steadfast. We should model our lives on the Bamboo Model.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (pDt9x)

130 Wasn't the quote "a remunerative job"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

I'm convinced that certain words aren't meant to be spoken out loud. "Remunerative" is such a fucking clunker that it only looks intelligent written out but trying to say it makes the speaker look like a pretentious dolt.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (1Yy3c)

131 Hey, Landlord! was a 1966-67 TV series starring Will Hutchins, Sandy Baron, Michael Constantine, and the luscious Pamela Rodgers. I really liked it, but not enough USAmericans agreed with me. It was Garry Marshall's first series.

Posted by: TV Hall of Fame at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (oftw2)

132 Crypto means WU has no real role in the banking world.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (rbvCR)

COCKSUCKAHH!!!

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (/+FOE)

133 They don't have much of a choice. Fincen regulations are pretty broad. It is just that the Eye of Donald has not turned toward remittances yet. Bessent though has them on his radar scope.
Posted by: whig

Sounds vaguely like Tolkein. Is Schiff carrying the Ring of Impeachment to Mt. Roberts in this analogy?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (Dv3i1)

134 99 As much as I love gingers, I've never gotten the Karen Gillan thing. She's cute enough, but just doesn't push my buttons.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

135 123 I understand that bamboo is damn near impossible to eradicate once it becomes established.

Posted by: Bulg
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Only have it in containers. It spreads underground and requires massive effort to keep it from spreading including digging trenches around a grove and putting barriers around it.

If you keep cutting it down and killing it when new shoots emerge with brush killers, it can also do it over a long period of time.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)

136 Doesn’t Nicholson have dementia now?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:17 AM (pDt9x)

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Does he still sit courtside at Lakers home games with the rest of the glitteratti?

And is Queen LeBron still playing for them and taking it up the ass from Chairman "Winnie The Pooh" Xi? /rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (25a1J)

137 128 80
‘ Only watched it because wife wanted to watch it, and afterwards, never again.’

I let my wife watch that one on her own.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:35 AM (jbnUc)

I knew nothing about it beforehand. Afterwards, I was, "What in the name of all that's Good and Virtuous was that hell I just watched?"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (ynpvh)

138
I get a "Page not found."
Posted by: Bulg

Remove the space and the adjacent period

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (xG4kz)

139 Receptionist: How do you write women so well?

Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.

Posted by: As Good As It Gets at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (P5BPp)

140 133 They don't have much of a choice. Fincen regulations are pretty broad. It is just that the Eye of Donald has not turned toward remittances yet. Bessent though has them on his radar scope.
Posted by: whig

Sounds vaguely like Tolkein. Is Schiff carrying the Ring of Impeachment to Mt. Roberts in this analogy?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (Dv3i1)

Yes. The Trump though, he is Tricksey, Precious.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (pDt9x)

141 I've never heard of "shiplap" before.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)

Work in home improvement and you'll start shooting anybody who mentions it. lol

Its what I call trendy ugly.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (snZF9)

142 I don't know anything anymore.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:18 AM (/+FOE)

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Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (25a1J)

143 There are varieties of Bamboo that can grow 18" per day in the tropics. The Paolo should have such a problem.

Posted by: Bamboo Shoots at December 12, 2025 11:38 AM (oftw2)

144 81
‘ Did you know that Bamboo is really grass?’

No . I didn’t know that, Mr. Claven. Was that a question on Jeopardy?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:39 AM (jbnUc)

145 > I wonder if there's a way at the macro level to analyze the rate of decline in "remittances" to their home countries as a factor in helping to better determine the estimates of self-deportations?
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The bitching and moaning from Mexico's prezzy might not factor the self-deportations, but it sure sounded like it amounted to a whole lot of Mexico's GDP.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 11:39 AM (NwnyJ)

146 Canada has figured out to lower the cost of health care dramatically!

Kill anyone who gets sick.

That is actually an interesting talking point. Canada and every euthanasia enthusiast and abortionist has already endorsed killing people in the name of "health care".

If you are a foreigner or otherwise expecting the public to pick up the medical tab, then you get to pick your "health care" treatment plan from the Euthanasia Menu.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 11:39 AM (pUU4E)

147 As much as I love gingers, I've never gotten the Karen Gillan thing. She's cute enough, but just doesn't push my buttons.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

She is equal parts cute and sexy, that's pretty much it.

She's like if a basket full of puppies was super hot. It's weird now that I put it that way.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (/+FOE)

148 144 81
‘ Did you know that Bamboo is really grass?’

No . I didn’t know that, Mr. Claven. Was that a question on Jeopardy?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:39 AM (jbnUc)

I learned from Ryan Lizza, Philosopher.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (pDt9x)

149 >>> Not saying this to upset anyone but I can't even quantify how much I hated As Good As It Gets.

I liked all of it but the stupid road trip with gay guy drawing her. One of the last decent grown up romantic comedies. I liked the gay guy, I liked Nicholson obviously relishing playing a detestable person with a secret heart of gold, I liked the dog, and the gay guy getting ticked his dog likes Jack. I liked Helen hunt's storyline. The harried single mom, the gay guy getting beat up, the OCD... There was a realness to the characters' lives that gets sanded off in the fluffy Romantic comedies with the teenyboppers in them. And none of them were woke or perfect. Just people. I miss Hollywood writing just people.

And of course it has one of the funniest exchanges in 90s cinematic history:

-- How do you write women so well?
-- I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (gWBY1)

150 147 As much as I love gingers, I've never gotten the Karen Gillan thing. She's cute enough, but just doesn't push my buttons.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

She is equal parts cute and sexy, that's pretty much it.

She's like if a basket full of puppies was super hot. It's weird now that I put it that way.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (/+FOE)

Go on...

Posted by: Sam Brinton at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

151 @134

>>As much as I love gingers, I've never gotten the Karen Gillan thing. She's cute enough, but just doesn't push my buttons.

Any man that talks about Amy Pond this way, get's a night in the box.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 12, 2025 11:41 AM (XV/Pl)

152 As much as I love gingers, I've never gotten the Karen Gillan thing. She's cute enough, but just doesn't push my buttons.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

Sigh....
Well, she can certainly push mine.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:41 AM (2WIwB)

153 Sam Brinton. Wonder what that Perv is up to? Baggage handler for United?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:41 AM (pDt9x)

154
Yes, we haven't a DC is a swamp problem.

What we have is a DC is a bamboo grove problem.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (xG4kz)

155 * Comment archived for future use *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:37 AM (25a1J)

Click the plus sign in my hash and you'll find out all about future use.

I'm just kidding I just wanted to point out my hash which says it all but not usually on Friday.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (/+FOE)

156 I need to stop commenting, I'm driving in heavy traffic right now.

I'M KIDDING! Im kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding.

I'm at home on the shitter.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (1Yy3c)

157 Sounds vaguely like Tolkein. Is Schiff carrying the Ring of Impeachment to Mt. Roberts in this analogy?
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Well Schiff would be more like Saruman in that scenario. But I think the Donald is aware of the issue but is relying on delegation to Bessent right now instead of speaking about it publicly.

Remittances interact with Donald's foreign policy/tariff initiatives with Latin America, India, among other strategic places. JJ had a link to a story about the whole drug trade emanating from Venezuela and likely destabilizing the West Coast of Africa nations like Benin, etc. fueling Muzzie terrorism in Nigeria against Christians, etc.

Venezuela has apparently become a nexus for all sorts of bad cartels and foreign players like Russia, China, and Iran to colonize in the US backyard. Also apparently Venezuelans were still involved in the Smartmatic voting machines which licensed the technology to Dominion which is coming out. Smartmatic (or whatever they call themselves now) managers ares facing prison for bribes in the Philippine Islands regarding elections there as well.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (WDjG6)

158 In the past eight months, the USA M1 money supply has grown 2.8%. Milton Friedman sez: "There's your inflation, folks."

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (GHIyr)

159
Why are we falling for the Democrats' "affordability" Gaslighting?

We even immediately adopted their stupid buzzword "affordability."

All you need to know is by "affordability," Democrats mean "free." They Have No Plan to "lower costs." Their only "plan" is subsidize Everything.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (b3HfZ)

160 Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 11:40 AM (gWBY1)

Yeah I realized that it's About Schmidt I despised, and I just didn't like As Good As It Gets. I think.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (/+FOE)

161 104 Canada has figured out to lower the cost of health care dramatically!

Kill anyone who gets sick.

in the book moscow 2042, moscow (a city-state in the book) solved its health-care problem by deporting anyone who got sick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_2042

Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (v3pYe)

162 85 Republicans in Congress have a solution.

They're going to reveal it once they've:
- passed union protections for federal workers
- extended the Obamacare subsidies
- held hearings on whether Santa Clause is a socialist threat
- passed amnesty to speedboat fishermen trying to deliver powdered "fish" to Cuba

Then, and only then, can they get around to helping American citizens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:25 AM (HXT0k)

If by that you mean "issue a strongly worded resolution about the necessity of helping American citizens," then yes.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (lHPJf)

There's a reason Johnson kept the House out 6+ weeks - there are more true Ds than true Rs there, and he can't stop discharge petitions when they happen.

Good news is none of the virtue signaling will become law, so it's pointless posturing...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (tOcjL)

163 Speaking of housing vacancies...same holds f true in many cities (i.e. urban shitholes) for business street frontages. Over 60% of the ground level store fronts in a six square block area of downtown Seattle are shuttered. But have the rents come down?
Nope.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:43 AM (2WIwB)

164 I'll admit that I've never actually seen Karen Gillan on screen, just internet image searches. Maybe if I actually saw her on screen my opinion of her would be higher.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

165 Since when do Democrats give a shit about people affording stuff? What happened to Obama's energy prices that were going to "necessarily skyrocket"?

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (/+FOE)

166 I've never heard of "shiplap" before.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:22 AM (25a1J)

Shiplap is boards with a rabbet facing one way on one edge, and a rabbet facing the other way on the opposite edge, so with adjacent boards the rabbets overlap.

Having said that, the wall in the photo looks like tongue and groove to me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (npFr7)

167 Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)

I have an ornamental bamboo called nandina

it has taken longer for it to do its underground spreading routine, but it definitely is multiplying itself. But I don't mind because the red berries are so beautiful this time of year

Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)

168 Newsweek: Mamdani Effect’ Is Seeing More People Moving to New York, Not Leaving It.

...brokerage firm Olshan Realty reports sales of luxury homes...were up by 31 percent in November compared with October...brokerage Douglas Elliman, reported a similar increase, saying that sales in November were up 25 percent from a month earlier.

And anyone who needs a place despite their politics would want to buy before anyone increases taxes on that transaction. I live in a different city but heard that while visiting.

While I do support many of Mamdanis policy’s, knowing that Cuomo was going to leave if Mamdani won sweetened the deal

If you're the sort of rich that they're talking about, where else are you going to go to live the sort of lifestyle that NYC provides?

His proposed millionaire's surtax is only 2% too. When you're rich enough to be clearing over 1mil annually, a little 2% ain't gonna be enough to offset the benefit of being located in NYC.

We did the same thing in MA with a 5% surtax and surprise, the rich are still here and we funded universal school lunch and a few other things with it.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

169 There is a redeeming aspect of "As Good as it Gets". A homosexual was brutally beaten by other homosexuals for no good reason, and this depiction matches reality to a great degree. Leftists have been lying to us for decades that the greatest threat to homosexuals is straight people, but normal people actually tend to leave homosexuals alone.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (FMtrg)

170 167 Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)

I have an ornamental bamboo called nandina

it has taken longer for it to do its underground spreading routine, but it definitely is multiplying itself. But I don't mind because the red berries are so beautiful this time of year

Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)

are the berries edible?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (ynpvh)

171 Click the plus sign in my hash and you'll find out all about future use.

I'm just kidding I just wanted to point out my hash which says it all but not usually on Friday.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:42 AM (/+FOE)

FOE = Full Of Excrement?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (3h4I5)

172 Rapidly declining in birthrates is also going to cause a drop in demand for larger house (4 or more bedrooms) in next few years. Time to sell while there are still families around with three or more kids. I'm selling as soon as my 2nd of three goes off to college in a couple years.

Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (GUOwU)

173 More money. Less stuff.

Print all the money. Stop making stuff. Import cheap trash you immediately throw into a landfill, and pay for it on your credit card with money that doesn't exist.

Bam.

Inflation.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (Vq1pX)

174 Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

Images do not do the woman justice. There are just some chicks you have to see in motion. Preferably slow motion.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (/+FOE)

175
The problem with inflation is that it sets a "New Zero".

So, in theory, things will never go back to the before Biden times.

Three things helping Trump though:
1) A lot of the inflation was caused by trying top destroy the USA's cheap energy and energy production,
Lower energy costs help everything go lower.

2) Massive deportation. A lot of Biden Handlers(?) plan was to drive inflation by immigration. That's being handled though I wish more aggressively.

3) Since Clinton the Democrats have been talking about "solving the debt" through inflation. Because, then we are paying our debts with worthless money. Ha ha ha! The Chinese are getting worthless dollars! Ha ha ha! What about US citizens? Fuck'em! HA HA HA!.
That idea's no longer being used.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

176 FOE = Full Of Excrement?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (3h4I5)

It's like you've known me all my life.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (/+FOE)

177 There's two types of bamboo: the kind that clusters, and the kind that has rhizomes that grow underground and spread like roots.

The rhizomes are nearly impossible to eradicate once they spread. You have to dig deep trenches around them and and put in heavy plastic as a barrier so they don't spread.

I did my homework and planted the cluster kind of bamboo. Filled in a tough spot in my yard beautifully and quickly, never spread, easy to care for. Loved the look and the low maintenance.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (gWBY1)

178 'All you need to know is by "affordability," Democrats mean "free."'

When Republicans talk about "affordability," they mean "it's never our fault, and we can't fix any problems we inherit anyway."

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (GHIyr)

179 104
‘ Canada has figured out to lower the cost of health care dramatically!

Kill anyone who gets sick.’

Give a man Canadian Healthcare and he’ll have medical care for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

180 I’m really skeptical about the self deportation numbers. It has an air of “jobs saved or created” from the Obama years. How does the govt even know if someone self deported. It’s not like they check in and say “hey ICE just FYI I’m leaving now”. It’s all estimates and guesses which can be inflated easily.

Home prices had to start falling eventually. At some point if nobody can afford a product the product’s price has to adjust. This is Econ 101 stuff.

As for places like Austin or Phoenix a ton of people went there during Covid to escape blue state lockdowns. But then they realized they miss California or Chicago or wherever. And are moving back. Notice the article says Providence is up 5%. That’s the pattern.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (9iyS+)

181 I'll admit that I've never actually seen Karen Gillan on screen, just internet image searches. Maybe if I actually saw her on screen my opinion of her would be higher.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

***

Cute smile, red hair of course, and legs that go on for ever and ever!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (2WIwB)

182 170 167 Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)

I have an ornamental bamboo called nandina

it has taken longer for it to do its underground spreading routine, but it definitely is multiplying itself. But I don't mind because the red berries are so beautiful this time of year

Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)

are the berries edible?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (ynpvh)

Internet says berries contain cyanide, so maybe.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (pDt9x)

183 I just discovered another beautiful ginger actress, whom I had never heard of before: Sarah Rafferty. Yum.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:27 AM

You obviously never watched the series Suits? Her character was excellent in that. And yes, quite yum.

Posted by: As Good As It Gets at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (P5BPp)

184 182 170 167 Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)

I have an ornamental bamboo called nandina

it has taken longer for it to do its underground spreading routine, but it definitely is multiplying itself. But I don't mind because the red berries are so beautiful this time of year

Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)

are the berries edible?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:45 AM (ynpvh)

Internet says berries contain cyanide, so maybe.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (pDt9x)

Yum, just like apple seeds!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (ynpvh)

185 The other part of it is that Jamie Dimon just admitted that JPMorgan Chase is using Crypto and Bitcoin to do bank transfers now. Very large transfers that don't use SWIFT.

Crypto means WU has no real role in the banking world.
Posted by: Kindltot
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US has already proven it can track blockchain transactions and unwind them if necessary. A lot of the crypto hype was that it was untraceable. It isn't probably for state actors anymore than numbered accounts in the Cayman Islands are safe from monitoring.

I have come to the conclusion that privacy is dead from state actors and most commercial entitites unless you want to live like Ted Kaczynski.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:47 AM (WDjG6)

186 “Affordability Crisis”

It'd be amusing and maybe useful to insert a parrot squawking into these NPC OPS.

Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2025 11:48 AM (FhXTo)

187 lol @ the shiplap retorts.

No, never watched HGTV (killed cable like two decades ago).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:48 AM (25a1J)

188 Oh... and bamboo flooring was all the rage in the 2010s I think. My office redid floors and put some down. It was gorgeous...until movers trucked some dolly's in loaded down with a tin of weight, and left permanent dolly wheel grooves in the bamboo.

Do not recommend as flooring unless you get the really high end stuff.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 11:48 AM (gWBY1)

189 162 85 Republicans in Congress have a solution.

They're going to reveal it once they've:
- passed union protections for federal workers
- extended the Obamacare subsidies

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Apparently they're holding the line on the subsidies:

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.

https://tinyurl.com/4etscewj
(AP via Spectrum News)

It seems they've got a backbone somewhere that they pull out on special occasions.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 11:49 AM (6ydKt)

190 186 “Affordability Crisis”

It'd be amusing and maybe useful to insert a parrot squawking into these NPC OPS.

Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2025 11:48 AM (FhXTo)

Affordability Crisis...
Climate Crisis...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:49 AM (ynpvh)

191 ...brokerage firm Olshan Realty reports sales of luxury homes...were up by 31 percent in November compared with October...brokerage Douglas Elliman, reported a similar increase, saying that sales in November were up 25 percent from a month earlier.

See I always wonder about stats like this. Why wouldn't you compare one Nov to another. Does NYC normally see more sales in Nov then Oct?

But then also...isn't this being driven by the people who want a luxury NYC place getting in before Mammy gets his new taxes?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:49 AM (sKqQm)

192 it has taken longer for it to do its underground spreading routine, but it definitely is multiplying itself. But I don't mind because the red berries are so beautiful this time of year

Posted by: kallisto

FWIW, if you have the original strains of heavenly bamboo aka nandina, it will spread more aggressively via new baby nandina. Rose of Sharon is another such.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

193 Not just housing. Less traffic. Less demand for electricity and water.

Posted by: MikeN at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (aw6/b)

194 183 I never even heard of Suits before I looked up the lovely Sarah Rafferty.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

195 Republicans in Nov 2024: "Give us control of the WH and the Congress, and we promise to spend the next four years still blaming every fucking thing that goes wrong on Democrats."

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (GHIyr)

196 It'd be moar amusing and maybe useful to insert a pig squealing.

Posted by: parrots at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (Kt19C)

197 My MiL, not exactly a bundle of humor,,had the biggest laugh of her life when she saw that we SELL english ivy in this country. It's pervasive garden poison over there, she couldn't believe people here pay for it.

It's be like going to another country and seeing bundles of fire ants for sale.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (/+FOE)

198 All those trendy decor items become outdated fast. Keep it simple with traditional items. White kitchens, hardwood floors, etc. The simpler the better. It’s timeless and holds its value.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (9iyS+)

199 I gotta start looking for health insurance for myself and the kids (technically part-time worker, but haven't worked much since I was laid-off last year and got sick thereafter). Any good ones out there that still exist in Kalifornia?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (ynpvh)

200 Its’ a housing thread, its’ a movie thread, its’s a ginger thread, its’s a construction thread. Buck, you laid out a helluva Smorgasbord!

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (pDt9x)

201 Canada has figured out to lower the cost of health care dramatically!

Kill anyone who gets sick.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:29 AM

Not to mention, kill all the white people.

From this morning's Morning Report:

Free health care for Muslim migrants. Free death for Canadian taxpayers.

Canada’s Euthanasia Kills 96% White People

LINK: https://bit.ly/4pZtI7E

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (P5BPp)

202 197 My MiL, not exactly a bundle of humor,,had the biggest laugh of her life when she saw that we SELL english ivy in this country. It's pervasive garden poison over there, she couldn't believe people here pay for it.

It's be like going to another country and seeing bundles of fire ants for sale.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (/+FOE)

Give it to the neighbors you don't like, but eventually it'll end up in your yard...LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

203 No, never watched HGTV (killed cable like two decades ago).
Posted by: ShainS
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HGTV is on in every doctor's office waiting room.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (WDjG6)

204 >>> I'll admit that I've never actually seen Karen Gillan on screen, just internet image searches.

She was darling in Doctor who. And in the live action Jumanni film, she wears these really tiny safari shirts and is also hilarious. I think a lot of teenage boys fell in love with her in that film.

I love they cast her as the stoic Nebula character in the marvel films. She plays the serious side well, then sneaks in subtle comedic bits (it's not ripe!) that a primarily dramatic actress would have completely missed.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (gWBY1)

205 Yes. But in part because they relied on a raft of government subsidies and low cost capital to house new illegals, refugees, and Section 8 and getting breaks on zoning, etc. via affordable housing mandates.

And they are proving to be shit landlords skimping on maintenance, screwing average people on payments, late fees, etc., and so on. Basically just like big airlines degraded flying, big Tech degraded customer support, and so on.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:32 AM (WDjG6)

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Ah, that tracks. Thanks for putting me to some additional knowledge, per usual ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:53 AM (25a1J)

206 137
‘ What in the name of all that's Good and Virtuous was that hell I just watched?"’

You watched a musical that a rejected Friends episode : A bunch of assorted young NYC fags singing and whining about rent.

Wasn’t that a great concept for entertainment?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

207 then also...isn't this being driven by the people who want a luxury NYC place getting in before Mammy gets his new taxes?
Posted by: 18-1 a

I thought everyone with money was fleeing NYC to Florida.

That’s what Fox News was screaming about. Did it turn out to be bullshit after all? Here’s my shocked face. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (9iyS+)

208 When I posted that Iowahawk tweeet I didn't expect everyone to start talking about shiplap.

To all the hetero lurkers...I'm so very sorry.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (1Yy3c)

209 guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
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Seems like maybe the Dems did the briar patch thingy on the Reps. I hope the Reps have a plan* for the midterms that blunts the obvious Dem messaging that is coming.

*No, I don't think Congressional Reps have any plans, at least ones that aren't geared towards getting back in the minority where there's money for nothing and the chicks (or boys) are free

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (Dv3i1)

210 Nandina is called a bamboo, but it is not a true bamboo and does not spread like one. I use Nandina quite a bit in beds, and it is one of the best old time Southern Gardening plants, as it is drought resistant, doesn't mind heat, but doesn't die from cold either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK8)

211
DHS only recorded roughly 13,000 migrants who have self-deported.

Posted by: Archimedes

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I keep saying this 1 million+ number can't be provable or real. If it were true, there would be stories about little Central American towns that are being repopulated, about the Pedros and Marias who are returning to build homes and start businesses with their (SUBSTANTIAL, by local standards) American savings, to tell their stories, blah blah-bo.

Here in California, any change is invisible. I read stories from time to time about classrooms being "empty" as a "chill" settles over Hispanic residents who live in "terror" of budging outside their homes. Similar stories about Mexican groceries and small businesses losing customers who are similarly "terrified" to go outside (how are they eating, one wonders).

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (1N/bM)

212 206 137
‘ What in the name of all that's Good and Virtuous was that hell I just watched?"’

You watched a musical that a rejected Friends episode : A bunch of assorted young NYC fags singing and whining about rent.

Wasn’t that a great concept for entertainment?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

It felt like I contracted AIDS watching that abortion.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

213 Everyone should plant Bradford Pear, Japanese Knotweed, and Wild Rose. Two years tops, no one will see your house from the road.

Posted by: Add Some Kudzu, Too. at December 12, 2025 11:55 AM (oftw2)

214 I never even heard of Suits before I looked up the lovely Sarah Rafferty.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

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I thought everyone had heard of Suits because of Mrs. Prince Harry.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:55 AM (DRSnL)

215 "My MiL, not exactly a bundle of humor,,had the biggest laugh of her life when she saw that we SELL english ivy in this country. It's pervasive garden poison over there, she couldn't believe people here pay for it.
Posted by: ..."

It was all over one side of my backyard when I bought my current house. Took three years of tearing out and poison to get rid of it. Do not let it get started because it looks attractive.

Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2025 11:55 AM (GUOwU)

216 Its’ a housing thread, its’ a movie thread, its’s a ginger thread, its’s a construction thread. Buck, you laid out a helluva Smorgasbord!
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:51 AM (pDt9x)
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That's what I love about this place.

We come here for conversations about economics, but we stay here for the bewbs...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 11:55 AM (RnixX)

217 See I always wonder about stats like this. Why wouldn't you compare one Nov to another. Does NYC normally see more sales in Nov then Oct?

That would definitely be the normal way to do it, so when it's done differently, I assume the data doesn't support the pre-determined outcome.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (JCZqz)

218 Free health care for Muslim migrants. Free death for Canadian taxpayers.

Canada’s Euthanasia Kills 96% White People
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Canada will run out of gingers if this trend continues.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (Dv3i1)

219 Shitlab? That's butt cancer test, right?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (mlg/3)

220 a pig squealing.

But I haven't got a fan belt.

Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (FhXTo)

221 So it's been raining here in Washington State...a dreaded "atmospheric river."
Riiiigggghhhhtttt.
Here's how NBC reports it:
"Amid historic flooding from days of torrential rain, Washington state Governor Bob Ferguson is still waiting for the Trump Administration to approve his request for a disaster declaration. It comes as federal officials canceled a meeting yesterday to potentially downsize FEMA."

Fu*k NBC. What's the story here komrades? The flood? The disaster request? The fact that the guv is still waiting (it had been less than 24 hours from when the report was written)? Or FEMA cancelling a meeting?

This very story demonstrates Ferguson doesn't give a damn about the citizens of the state. Anything to trash Trump huh guv?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (2WIwB)

222 I thought everyone had heard of Suits because of Mrs. Prince Harry.
Posted by: Jordan61

Oh, Sparkles was in that? Was she any good?

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

223 I keep saying that conservatives need to be more "populist" when it comes to Wall Street's
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William F. Buckley was a nancy-boy piece of shit.

The country and the Republican Party would have been better off keeping the Birchers and jettisoning Big Business.

Corporatism is no better than communism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (HXT0k)

224 Oh, Sparkles was in that? Was she any good?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

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I haven't watched it, myself.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 12, 2025 11:57 AM (DRSnL)

225 199 I gotta start looking for health insurance for myself and the kids (technically part-time worker, but haven't worked much since I was laid-off last year and got sick thereafter). Any good ones out there that still exist in Kalifornia?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Seems to me that we have an insurance broker here as one of the cobs. Mebbe they can help.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:57 AM (WDjG6)

226 HGTV is on in every doctor's office waiting room.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:52 AM (WDjG6)

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Aha!

Had to visit an endodontist multiple times over the past year and I noticed it they had something along those lines being broadcast (home & garden -- and also cooking).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:57 AM (25a1J)

227 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (HXT0k)

Buckley was controlled opposition. That's all.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

228 I keep saying this 1 million+ number can't be provable or real. If it were true, there would be stories about little Central American towns that are being repopulated, about the Pedros and Marias who are returning to build homes and start businesses with their (SUBSTANTIAL, by local standards) American savings, to tell their stories, blah blah-bo.

Here in California, any change is invisible. I read stories from time to time about classrooms being "empty" as a "chill" settles over Hispanic residents who live in "terror" of budging outside their homes. Similar stories about Mexican groceries and small businesses losing customers who are similarly "terrified" to go outside (how are they eating, one wonders).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM

Yep. It’s a bullshit number.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (9iyS+)

229 Good News! The Hotel Jermyn in Pennsylvania has a few more openings after today, (well once we get all the blood & brain tissue cleaned up) Thank You for your Patience in this matter.

Posted by: Penn. Chamber of Tourism at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (Mr2jk)

230 222 I thought everyone had heard of Suits because of Mrs. Prince Harry.
Posted by: Jordan61

Oh, Sparkles was in that? Was she any good?
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

I saw a handful of episodes. She was competent.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

231 Seems to me that we have an insurance broker here as one of the cobs. Mebbe they can help.
Posted by: whig

Weird Dave.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

232 Home prices are decreasing everywhere and at all sales price points.
Most Americans largest financial asset is their ho.e. that value is dropping most Americans would not like that to happen
Does Buck think that our shitty economy is also due to fewer hard working migrant home owners leaving ?
Lowest current gas prices are in OK $2.50
1 year ago has prices in Ok were $2.52
When Biden left office. Inflation was less than 3% just as it is now.

People no longer believe in Trump when he days things like he inherited the worst inflation in history or that the economy is doing well.
Prices are dropping but only because people are too worried about JOBS not inflation to buy
Deflation is worse than inflation

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (fZpiI)

233 It felt like I contracted AIDS watching that abortion.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I think the HOT L BALTIMORE was the forerunner in AIDS-ravaged, urban comedy.

Posted by: With The Fierstein Play-Safe Sex at December 12, 2025 11:58 AM (oftw2)

234 The public understanding is deeply flawed, reflecting the abysmal state of Economics education in the government schools.
Inflation is NOT the phenomenon of prices rising.
It's the phenomenon of debasement of the currency. When the Treasury floods trillions of dollars into the marketplace, each dollar become worth less. Thereby requiring more dollars to purchase goods.
The only was prices come down is if SUPPLY of the products increases.
Blaming higher prices on 'inflation" is like blaming your car engine for stopping when in fact you've run out of gas.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 12, 2025 11:59 AM (MNCvZ)

235 HGTV is on in every doctor's office waiting room.

Next, on Affordable Starter Homes we have Buffy and Simp who are looking to buy their first home. Buffy, a Only Fans Influencer and Simp, an intern at Arby's Drive through, have a limited budget and have chosen a simple 3200sq ft fixer-upper for only $750k.

Our team has TWO WEEKS before the city inspector come back to lift the red-tag Condemned sign from the door...

Will they be able to make the transformation in time?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 11:59 AM (pUU4E)

236 How does the govt even know if someone self deported. It’s not like they check in and say “hey ICE just FYI I’m leaving now”. It’s all estimates and guesses which can be inflated easily.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 11:46 AM (9iyS+)

CBP Home app. They're encouraging illegals to use this to notify the gub'mint of self-deportation. Yes, literally saying, "Hey ICE just FYI I'm leaving now."

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (1Yy3c)

237 Comparing Nov to Oct is dumb. You compare YOY not MOM. Thats standard in any industry.

It would be like comparing candy sales in Nov vs Oct. gee it fell off a cliff. Wonder why.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (9iyS+)

238 Thanks Commie Pope Leo!

(LifeSiteNews) — Multiple churches in the United States have staged politically charged Nativity scenes to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) efforts to remove illegal immigrants.

At St. Susanna Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, the traditional figure of Jesus in the manger was replaced with a sign implying that Jesus would be deported by ICE.

“ICE was here,” reads the sign. “The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (Dv3i1)

239 DHS only recorded roughly 13,000 migrants who have self-deported.

Posted by: Archimedes

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I keep saying this 1 million+ number can't be provable or real. If it were true, there would be stories about little Central American towns that are being repopulated, about the Pedros and Marias who are returning to build homes and start businesses with their (SUBSTANTIAL, by local standards) American savings, to tell their stories, blah blah-bo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 11:54 AM (1N/bM)
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I tend to agree. I think if over 1.5M people disappeared from this country in 6 months, there would be huge areas in USA that suddenly became ghost towns. Plus, I would think massive chaos at the border as over a million people suddenly fled.

Many parasites have indeed left. You can see the numbers in the employment figures and in easing of some housing and other figures. But 1.5M? I'd love for that to be true, but I'm skeptical.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

240 >>> This very story demonstrates Ferguson doesn't give a damn about the citizens of the state. Anything to trash Trump huh guv?

I still feel bad that the lefty voters in WA voted in a bunch of gas tax hikes in 2024 "for the children," that raised it like 50 cents. They they already have some of the highest gas prices. So while most other states are seeing a big price drop on gas, WA probably won't.

Sorry Nurse and the other Washingtonians!

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (gWBY1)

241 I don't know about ICE holiday displays but I can't find a local church doing a live nativity this year (Catholic anyway). ours ALWAYS has before?!?!

maybe they were like, if we can't do a political protest one we just won't do one or something?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (emBoF)

242 It would be like comparing candy sales in Nov vs Oct. gee it fell off a cliff. Wonder why.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (9iyS+)

"I told you people that gravy flavored snickers was a terrible idea!"

-Mars Corp. Executive #54381

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (Vq1pX)

243 So prices drop when the supply stops being artificially and unlawfully reduced? Huh. Who would have thought.

Posted by: Nobody takes Econ 101 anymore at December 12, 2025 12:02 PM (TbWk/)

244 That reminds me - never, and I mean never, consider a used car previously owned by an Indian person/family. The person offering it for sale will lie about every detail of it including color.
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Never, ever, ever private sale anything to an Arab or an Indian, either.
Doesn't matter what price you agree on, they will always try to change it after you agree.

And, if you hate money, let them test-drive without you being in the vehicle.
Because, they'll drive out of sight, sabotage it somehow, come back and demand you sell it for scrap to them.

So many Americans have no idea just how much a luxury the formerly high-trust society we had was.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 12:02 PM (HXT0k)

245 are the berries edible?
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Internet says berries contain cyanide, so maybe.

All plants are edible. Some of them only once.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:03 PM (3nLb4)

246 At St. Susanna Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, the traditional figure of Jesus in the manger was replaced with a sign implying that Jesus would be deported by ICE.

“ICE was here,” reads the sign. “The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church.”
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (Dv3i1)

If only Mary had reproductive rights we wouldn't be forced into this conversation.

Posted by: It's fraught! Fraught I tell you! at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (TbWk/)

247 Seems to me that we have an insurance broker here as one of the cobs. Mebbe they can help.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:57 AM (WDjG6)

That would be Weird Dave, and he should be hosting the ONT tonight. He is a good man.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (npFr7)

248
Berries aren't berries.

I learned that last week.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (v6HoO)

249 Will they be able to make the transformation in time?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

The phony "deadline" makes those shows unwatchable. That and the faggotry.

Posted by: 30K Granite Countertops at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (oftw2)

250 Less demand, more supply = lower prices.

It's like there's a law or a rule or something that dictates that...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

251 238 Thanks Commie Pope Leo!

(LifeSiteNews) — Multiple churches in the United States have staged politically charged Nativity scenes to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) efforts to remove illegal immigrants.

At St. Susanna Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, the traditional figure of Jesus in the manger was replaced with a sign implying that Jesus would be deported by ICE.

“ICE was here,” reads the sign. “The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:00 PM (Dv3i1)

I always found that a silly argument. If folks coming here are escaping a gov't that wants to take their lives, they can apply for asylum; those than come here for economic reasons need to do it the proper, legal way, not jump the line and pop out anchor babies once here.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

252 212
‘ It felt like I contracted AIDS watching that abortion.’

Second hand AIDS? I hope you get better.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 12, 2025 12:05 PM (jbnUc)

253 Many parasites have indeed left. You can see the numbers in the employment figures and in easing of some housing and other figures. But 1.5M? I'd love for that to be true, but I'm skeptical.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

If employers are sent to jail for employing illegals (and judges don't just dismiss the cases out of spite), we'll see more self-deportations. Also if a high profile deportation happens (take Ilhan Omar, please) that sends a message. Tom Homan is either a front, or is being fettered behind the scenes.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:05 PM (Dv3i1)

254 241 I don't know about ICE holiday displays but I can't find a local church doing a live nativity this year (Catholic anyway). ours ALWAYS has before?!?!

maybe they were like, if we can't do a political protest one we just won't do one or something?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:01 PM (emBoF)

It's rare for Catholic Churches to do a live nativity...only ones I've ever seen or been to (having lived in NJ, AL, TX, OH, and now VA) is at Protestant places...Catholics don't really do the "let's bring in live animals" thing...

So, the fact you ever had a Church that did one surprises me...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 12, 2025 12:06 PM (tOcjL)

255 245 are the berries edible?
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Internet says berries contain cyanide, so maybe.

All plants are edible. Some of them only once.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:03 PM (3nLb4)

edible /ĕd′ə-bəl/
adjective

Fit to be eaten, especially by humans.
"edible roots; an edible mushroom."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:06 PM (ynpvh)

256 My family had to move in 1964 when a new owner bought the building in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in 1964. Rent skyrocketed from $35 to $60 a month!

Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee Since 1966 at December 12, 2025 12:07 PM (oftw2)

257 So many Americans have no idea just how much a luxury the formerly high-trust society we had was.
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I hate to be the guy to point this out, but a high trust society is not a “luxury” or one of those “nice things to have”. As a society this is no longer discussd.

It isn’t a luxury it is a base prerequisite to achieving and maintaining civilization. It is not possible otherwise. No chance. Get that in your head.

Posted by: Penn. Chamber of Tourism at December 12, 2025 12:07 PM (Mr2jk)

258 248
Berries aren't berries.

I learned that last week.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:04 PM (v6HoO)

Well, most things we call berries are aggregates...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)

259 So, the fact you ever had a Church that did one surprises me...

well they don't have animals tho

the churches here all have schools and the kids love doing them - my kids used to and their schools were private catholic and the girls' school isn't doing it anymore but the boys' is. make of that what you will!

we will check out the boys school if the guys feel like going back there, which they usually do. the two schools are connected but the boys school was eons better than the girls'.. but that's a whole other story

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:08 PM (emBoF)

260 William F. Buckley was a nancy-boy piece of shit.

The country and the Republican Party would have been better off keeping the Birchers and jettisoning Big Business.

Corporatism is no better than communism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (HXT0k)

I agree. The Birchers at least loved America.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:08 PM (xcxpd)

261 Berries aren't berries.

I learned that last week.

There is a whole category of Youtube vids that can be described as "Everyone except me is wrong about [ thing ]."

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:09 PM (3nLb4)

262 [Friday morning humor:]

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@Sassafrass_84

Well played. 🔥🔥🔥

[Singles Ad]

https://is.gd/MAieVo

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 12:09 PM (tf+dR)

263 lol maybe a protestant church is doing a live nativity but you know I'm very old school ... was taught not to go there! I think I got approval to go to a Jewish service once but I never could get approval to go to Protestant ones (back when I would ask - we were required to attend Mass weekly when I was in school).

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:10 PM (emBoF)

264 I stayed in an Air B&B in San Antonio last summer, and was amazed at the selection of updated small homes available for short term rental near downtown San Antonio and the Pearl.

It seemed to me nearly every home (early 20th century shotguns and bungaloes) where I stayed was either a short term rental or an occupied but "deferred maintenance" dwelling.

When I was ready to start a family 30 years ago, the concept of a "starter home" was something we all talked about. You could get into a good neighborhood with small homes, have your babies, and then move into something nicer when you started making real money in your late 30s.

I'm not sure that option is available to young adults anymore. The ones I talk to do not want to start families while living in a rental.

But the newly built 3BRs are expensive and crappy and remotely located. The older ones close to town are run down or else converted to short term rentals.

I actually got to meet Sec. Scott Turner last spring, who told me HUD was working on low cost home ownership for first time buyers. But it seems like a 10-20 year project and not a 5 year project.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 12, 2025 12:10 PM (GD2xa)

265 My husband binge watched Suits, and against my will I'd find myself dragged into the legal and personal storylines and want to find out what's happening. A really good ensemble cast with fun plot lines. Personal developments for the characters without it getting too soapy.

I think it did well on streaming reruns because it's a classic drama, not fancy but solid, and all the newer shows are dreck. It's weird to realize we lost a lot of basic competent storytellers, between the woke and the DEI and the strikes and the covid. The modern woke stuff makes suits look like it's high art.

Markle was trying to act like she was the reason it's done well in streaming. But she's such a minor character that's laughable. She can act a little though; I actually found her character likable, whereas everything about her actual persona is repellant.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:10 PM (gWBY1)

266 Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Not true. I am in a swing state and yes, students are disappearing from public school rolls, traffic is lighter, rental vacancies are increasing, construction openings are increasing including shutdowns of entire developments in order to recruit new workers, ER wait times are shorter, etc. And aggregate statistics indicate that momentum is happening and the border being secured means the tap is turned off for new ones.

If you live in a blue area in a blue sanctuary state , then you won't see as much of it as blue areas in red states.

Remove the bennies, make employment uncertain, remove the criminals first, but the number are changing and it is really big but so it the US so personal observations are about as useful as figuring the weather you have is the same across the US.

Illegals distribution across the US is lumpy--they stick out in rural areas, not so much in urban and suburban and blue areas. CA,NY, and IL are epicenters of illegals that have been woven into the society of these states with their large ethnic enclaves. If you don't go to those places in your state, you won't see it whether it is waxing or waning.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (WDjG6)

267 William F. Buckley was a nancy-boy piece of shit.

The country and the Republican Party would have been better off keeping the Birchers and jettisoning Big Business.

Corporatism is no better than communism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:56 AM (HXT0k)

I agree. The Birchers at least loved America.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:08 PM (xcxpd)

I kinda halfway agree, but not fully. I think Buckley absolutely believed in conservatism and freedom and thought the new deal was a disaster… I also think he was very smart and good at debate. But… he was too nice or naive in thinking he could just “talk it out” with lefties….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (/iXAp)

268 Yes you can lower paperwork (which the government/insurance companies don't want to do). Yes you can mandate price transparency. And some other small things.

But if you want to get prices down for health insurance/health care costs you need to remove all those illegals and reduce the number of Americans getting freebies as well
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (sKqQm)

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Try as I might, I have yet to understand what value health insurance companies bring to the table.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (Vh9CX)

269 But… he was too nice or naive in thinking he could just “talk it out” with lefties….
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He didn't get the Charlie Kirk treatment, at least.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 12:12 PM (Dv3i1)

270 I think it did well on streaming reruns because it's a classic drama, not fancy but solid, and all the newer shows are dreck. It's weird to realize we lost a lot of basic competent storytellers, between the woke and the DEI and the strikes and the covid. The modern woke stuff makes suits look like it's high art.

Markle was trying to act like she was the reason it's done well in streaming. But she's such a minor character that's laughable. She can act a little though; I actually found her character likable, whereas everything about her actual persona is repellant.
Posted by: LizLem
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Suits, Psych, and Monk are some of the more beloved streaming series and still high in views. All three aired on USA Network.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)

271 I kinda halfway agree, but not fully. I think Buckley absolutely believed in conservatism and freedom and thought the new deal was a disaster… I also think he was very smart and good at debate. But… he was too nice or naive in thinking he could just “talk it out” with lefties….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (/iXAp)

I'll agree with that, but deciding to unperson the John Birch Society in favor of Ivy League Businessmen was a bad bargain.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

272
Try as I might, I have yet to understand what value health insurance companies bring to the table.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 12, 2025 12:11 PM (Vh9CX)

Pass-throughs for Gov't corruption?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

273 I listen to a chap on the radio who was in on the first wave of the house-flipping, HGTV thing from around 2000-08 when it went bust. He says to never let these shows touch your place as they will finish it to look pretty for the cameras and never really complete what you can't see. They are on to the next victim and will never finish it.

Posted by: Fix Your Own Mess at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (oftw2)

274 Try as I might, I have yet to understand what value health insurance companies bring to the table.

Like casinos, they facilitate the transfer of money from a large group of people to a small group of people and take their cut off the top.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (3nLb4)

275
Anyone want a slice of delicious DROUPE Pie?

How about a cool bowl of Aggregates?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (v6HoO)

276 oh whig we DEFINITELY notice the missing illegales here. for sure!

trouble is we're inundated with legal H1B immigrants ... and that seems to only be increasing ...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (emBoF)

277 270

Suits, Psych, and Monk are some of the more beloved streaming series and still high in views. All three aired on USA Network.
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)

I am partial to the series “ Chuck”.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (pDt9x)

278 I'll agree with that, but deciding to unperson the John Birch Society in favor of Ivy League Businessmen was a bad bargain.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

Yes. I think we’re in agreement!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 12:14 PM (/iXAp)

279 "I have yet to understand what value health insurance companies bring to the table."

They are the de facto gatekeepers to the healthcare system. Most doctors simply won't see patients without insurance. This sucks.

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (GHIyr)

280 nood

lum

Posted by: Costanza at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (3uBP9)

281 Nood Newsome

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (jvxGE)

282 275
Anyone want a slice of delicious DROUPE Pie?

How about a cool bowl of Aggregates?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2025 12:13 PM (v6HoO)

My wife and I used to make some fine Blackaggregate jam. I'd remove the seeds, so just the pulp and juice. I like my jam seed-free.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

283 Birchers were declasse’, don’t you know.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2025 12:15 PM (pDt9x)

284 I've been watching Laramie and Cheyenne lately.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 12:16 PM (L/fGl)

285 The William F Buckley vs Gore Vidal debate proves that leftists have been calling the right Nazis forever. Nothing new under the sun.

Buckley was ruled by the media to have lost the debate when he called Vidal a Fag. But Vidal IMO had already sunk too low when he called Buckley a Nazi. Buckley flew into a rage, and while he should have kept his cool I totally understand it.

The best revenge for the right, is that gore Vidal has faded into utter irrelevancy. At one point it was required to have his books on your self if you were a proper lefty. But no one cares about him anymore.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 12:16 PM (gWBY1)

286 I am partial to the series “ Chuck”.

The first couple of seasons are good where he's a hapless geek being dragged along for the ride. They lost the thread when they turned into a superhero. Still... Yvonne Strahovski.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (3nLb4)

287 Birchers “at least” loved America?

That implies there was something wrong with the Birchere, and Buckley was correct in denying them legitimacy or whatever.

What was wrong with the Birchers? The only fault I could find was they did have a problem with flouridating the municipal water supplies.

Their general theme that the US “Lost China” and Korea, and the countries behind the Iron Curtain, and Yugoslavia and Cuba and Viet Nam .. etc. The State Department was riddled with communists, and set the stage for millions of deaths.

Like Sen. McCarthy, most people only know of the Birchers through the leftist or marxist media lens. “Red Scare” and “Witch Hunt” and “Hysteria” will be in there somewhere.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 12:18 PM (Mr2jk)

288 287 Concur.

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 12:19 PM (GHIyr)

289 Try as I might, I have yet to understand what value health insurance companies bring to the table.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Because catastrophic health problems can arise that could and did bankrupt people. The problem became though, because of a weird quirk in labor pay rates being controlled circa 1940's during WWII, Kaiser Shipbuilding could recruit workers by offering freehealth care and the OPM (Office of Price and Management) ruled that this was not an increase in wages. So other corporations did it too.

Since health care was not ruled as compensation, then we got health insurance for routine care instead of catastrophic coverage. That meant eventually over time, due to size effects, insurance companies got reductions in what they paid providers versus those that paid cash. And from there, the system metastasized. Medicare boosted the effects when it came online because large insurance companies adopted Medicare coverage rules and based their charges on Medicare rates (medicare and medicaid created a price floor in essence). System still worked decently until Obama, you didn't earn that, decided to use big insurance to give coverage to those in the gaps on coverage.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:21 PM (WDjG6)

290 reminds me - never, and I mean never, consider a used car previously owned by an Indian person/family. The person offering it for sale will lie about every detail of it including color.

—

Same with Russians. If I see the sellers name is Vasily or some such, I move on.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 12:21 PM (9iyS+)

291 Thinking about Laramie, I looked up star Robert Fuller and found "Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy Lee)." So I guess he was Lee Lee Lee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

292 How does the govt even know if someone self deported.
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The foreclosures are just now hitting the market.

It's kinda sad but yeah, vids of walking through the house and you can see the grabbed what they could and fled.

Funny though, 'cause all the comments are variations of "how the F did they get a FHA loan w/o proof of citizenship, and when citizens can't qualify?!"

LOL, it's getting mean out there and the Dems have no clue the mood.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 12:23 PM (HXT0k)

293 What was wrong with the Birchers? The only fault I could find was they did have a problem with flouridating the municipal water supplies.

Posted by: Common Tater
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CIA did not like them as they affronted modern liberal progressive attitudes so they used Buckley to take them down.

Tailgunner Joe was taken down in part for the same reason. No elite class members really wanted inquiry into their sordid personal lives and tangled finances/loyalties going back to school days. Joe, as an outsider, was disposable and removable because of his personal problems.

Uniparty has been running the show for a long time since WWII at the very least.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:24 PM (WDjG6)

294 “ICE was here,” reads the sign. “The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church.”
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Sounds like that's a church where the Bible is just a word and not a book they read.

Guaranteed there's a fag flag somewhere on the grounds a well.

About as Christian a church as a mosque ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 12:25 PM (HXT0k)

295 When those mortgage rates go down there will be a big turn around. Home builders/developers will kick in, they will buy in bulk and the price per sq ft should go down and less sq ft in starter home combined with lower monthly payments will make them more accessable to first time buyers.

The surge in homebuilding will be a boon to employment overall. All the various materials that go into building will increase need and productivity there. And all the crafts, skills, and trades that go into building a home and in producing and delivering the necessary goods.

This development will resonate incrementally upward. A new neighborhood needs new stores, etc., etc. This is what Powell understands and why his hate Trump is so adamant againt lowering rates.

Lowering rates is not printing more money.
Lowering rates is creating places for money to go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:31 PM (lQBYU)

296 trouble is we're inundated with legal H1B immigrants ... and that seems to only be increasing ...
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Stats say no. Part of teh issue is that the bloated numbers above the statutory cap admitted by Biden junta are good for three years and renewable for another 3.

New restrictions kicked in requiring 100k fee per job plus other restrictions such as a minimum salary of $65k starting Sept. 21, 2025.

Stats are here for the last several years. Link goes to an H1B firm. https://tinyurl.com/mk5dttah

Biden's junta spiked admissions to 188400 for FY 25 versus the 125 k total granted (this includes spouses) for FY 26. So your kids are probably seeing the Biden spike in the job market as it can take some time for the bulge in the python to be digested.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 12:41 PM (WDjG6)

297 Norman! Please coordinate!

Posted by: Toad-0 at December 12, 2025 12:55 PM (S6jVk)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

[Do not click to embiggen]

Woman in Doorway
Samuel Halpert

Is this great art? No, but it is competently executed, the artist has obvious skill, and there is no obvious political bent to the work. And the scene is sufficiently complex that it suggests questions. What is going on? Who is the woman ascending the stairs? Why didn't John Moses Browning design a .50ACP?

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 Looks like he timed it just right - once again. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 09:30 AM (cYBz/)

2 Huh. Btw testing?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 09:30 AM (HU4DS)

3
ESPONJA!!11!1!!11

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 09:30 AM (tljrc)

4 What?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (cYBz/)

5 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (R11M+)

6 Title checks out.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

7 [Do not click to embiggen]
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Seriously. DON'T!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (ESVrU)

8 here to suggest noone embiggens this, worse than a rickroll.

Posted by: cmeat at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

9 And who's the woman coming up the stairs in the bottom left?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (L/fGl)

10 I never like going up and down steep staircases like those.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (ESVrU)

11 Not bad, interesting use of space and color. Those stairs do not look safe at all, I would not use them myself.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (WPL6O)

12 Date
1925

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 31 5/8 × 25 5/8in. (80.3 × 65.1 cm)

Accession number
70.1591

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Sidney Elliott Cohn

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

13 But why the Handmaiden LARPer lurking in the basement stairwell?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (NuV6c)

14 Why didn't John Moses Browning design a .50ACP?

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Sorry.

Posted by: A Mr. Death, here about the reaping at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)

15 I like the dark wood against the white walls.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:33 AM (lQ+/f)

16 The women were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at December 12, 2025 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

17 Like this one. Color scheme is perfect and the subject simple.
Would hang, thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 09:33 AM (D+mpw)

18 Thick. Would not hang.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (abIsI)

19 At least she is wearing sensible shoes!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (0nHVk)

20 Well, they did make a try for the .50 GI in a 1911 a few years back, but it didn't really get off the ground.

Posted by: Robert Plant at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (PTJlB)

21 Woman coming up the stairs needs a bra.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (abIsI)

22 when old houses settle they can get off kilter.

Posted by: cmeat at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (R11M+)

23 It's a bit of a challenge for a sniper to hide out in the plant on the windowsill.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (ESVrU)

24 [Do not click to embiggen]
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Seriously. DON'T!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (ESVrU)

Do y'all know just how much the Moron in me wants to do just that right now????

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (PSEDc)

25 Ottoman Man is still as nasty as ever.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

26 [Do not click to embiggen]
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Seriously. DON'T!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

At least once a year, he's contractually obligated to post that.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (OUMaO)

27 Sp the woman in blue is carrying something orange and the woman in orange is following her?

Sounds...suspicion.

Its too small for an overcoat. The woman in orange has a hat and a shirt so...stolen pants?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (sKqQm)

28 Chick coming up the stairs seems to have a decent rack.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

29 Like this one. Color scheme is perfect and the subject simple.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 09:33 AM (D+mpw)

Yup. Skill is more important than some rarified social philosophy that irritates most people!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (n9ltV)

30 Meh. Boring. Some nice framing and composition, but that’s about it. TBWNH.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (yhEB+)

31 "MOM!! I PROMISE I WON'T THROW THE FOOTBALL INSIDE! CAN I PLEASE HAVE IT BACK NOWWWWWW???"

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (NuV6c)

32 Wide birthing hips.

Posted by: Potential suitors at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

33 I see cankles.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

34 Harriett still refused to believe Maude when she said surprising people with a lampshade on you head is not funny.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 09:36 AM (Riz8t)

35 21 that's an old lamp on the floor in the corner under the stairs.

Posted by: cmeat at December 12, 2025 09:36 AM (R11M+)

36 Do y'all know just how much the Moron in me wants to do just that right now????

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (PSEDc)

No...do what you are told like a good little HotAir reader.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 09:36 AM (n9ltV)

37 Grandparents had a house with staircases like that. We were admonished not to play on them.

We played on them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 09:37 AM (NwnyJ)

38 Harvey Weinstein may have been the model for Ottoman Man.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 09:37 AM (0nHVk)

39 21 Woman coming up the stairs needs a bra.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM
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You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 12, 2025 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

40 When will we get back to good sensible landscape art from Kincaid?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (abIsI)

41 I like the contrast between the white walls and the dark wood. Nice pop of green on the window sill.

Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

42 No...do what you are told like a good little HotAir reader.

You are using the force here. The dark side of the force.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (sKqQm)

43
It's like the woman in the doorway is paused to hear the woman ascending the stairs, suggesting motion rather than portraying it.

I like this very much. A painting that makes you wonder.

Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (Y8DZL)

44 Why are the plants growing *away* from the light coming through the window?

Posted by: red speck at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)

45 Don't embiggen pic, reminds me of this -

https://youtu.be/6goQBx0zjyY

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (Dv3i1)

46 >>the woman in blue is carrying something orange

MY FOOTBALL!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (NuV6c)

47 Is that plant on the right a ficus?

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

48 I never like going up and down steep staircases like those.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

The back staircase at my grandparent's farmhouse had a rise of eight feet and a run of about the same. You had to pull yourself up using the banister. Every one that used it fell up or down at least once.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)

49 Painting needs a cat on the window sill.

Posted by: dantesed at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

50 The woman in the blue dress needs better underwear.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

51 Could be the Fields Rooming House, but Hillary Brooke was the only female who lived there and she was a blonde.

Posted by: Stinky Davis at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)

52 >36 Do y'all know just how much the Moron in me wants to do just that right now????

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 12, 2025 09:34 AM (PSEDc)

No...do what you are told like a good little HotAir reader.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 09:36 AM (n9ltV)

https://tinyurl.com/uf3ackzt

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (GTqXr)

53 Alt title: Sad Boobs and Buttcracks -- a Study in Red and Blue.

Posted by: red speck at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)

54 Posted by: redridinghood

What makes for a cankle (?) because the woman in the blue dress does not look like she has chubby ankles, although the right in slimmer than the left.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (lQ+/f)

55 Jewish home, I think. That’s a Mezuzah in the left foreground, no?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (yhEB+)

56 >53 Alt title: Sad Boobs and Buttcracks -- a Study in Red and Blue.

Posted by: red speck at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)

Speaking of flapjacks...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (GTqXr)

57 This art makes me angry.

Posted by: Weasel at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (rV4Iu)

58 here to suggest noone embiggens this, worse than a rickroll.
Posted by: cmeat at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

Damn CBD's older sister!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (ExV1e)

59 Oh man, where to start

the artist uses shading to add detail to the blue woman's butt
who's the red handmaiden at lower left?
the stairs are a mess
I rate this as Meh with oakleaf clusters
would sell to unsuspecting rube

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 09:41 AM (ZxPkt)

60 Escher: An Early Draft.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:41 AM (L/fGl)

61 50 The woman in the blue dress needs better underwear.
Posted by: redridinghood

Probably pantyless, to have a nooner with the super?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:41 AM (abIsI)

62 The young lady with the fruit bowl is just asking for it with her magnificent ass and tight hair.

I wouldn't hang but I would bang.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 09:41 AM (1zOXE)

63 "Embiggen" needs to find its way into more people's lexicons.

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 09:41 AM (UnA8+)

64 The back staircase at my grandparent's farmhouse had a rise of eight feet and a run of about the same. You had to pull yourself up using the banister. Every one that used it fell up or down at least once.
Posted by: Tonypete

Look, Fat, falling upstairs three times on Air Force One is a record that will never be broken.

Posted by: Scranton Joe With Squirts at December 12, 2025 09:42 AM (oftw2)

65 50 The woman in the blue dress needs better underwear.

++++
Have her come see me.

Posted by: Sid Farkus at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

66 I like this painting because it has a story to tell.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (A0sqA)

67 "Embiggen" needs to find its way into more people's lexicons.
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"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."

Posted by: Jebediah Springfield at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (ESVrU)

68 Probably pantyless, to have a nooner with the super?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I'm not the Super! I'm the Concierge!

Posted by: Ground Floor Gertie at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)

69
"Oh, it looks like the sun's about to set. Time to put a bowl of meat at the end of the driveway, to keep the Somalis away from the dog."

Posted by: Minnesota Housewife at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (BI5O2)

70 > I like this painting because it has a story to tell.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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well clue me in

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 09:44 AM (ZxPkt)

71 >66 I like this painting because it has a story to tell.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 09:43 AM (A0sqA)

Every picture tells a story.

Posted by: Rod Stewart at December 12, 2025 09:44 AM (GTqXr)

72 This is one of those 20th century paintings that leave me asking: "So what?" Yes, it isn't abstract. The scene is easy to imagine. But why should the audience care? However, it is better executed than his NYC cityscapes which look amateurish.

Posted by: JTB at December 12, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

73 I can smell this scene.

Posted by: The Nose Knows at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (oftw2)

74 >>"Embiggen" needs to find its way into more people's lexicons.

I'm guessing this painting did not embiggen Samuel Halpert's wallet.

Embiggen!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (NuV6c)

75 Why would you need a .50?

Obviously to make up for not having the finesse to rapidly place two to the chest, one to the skull in 9mm.

Heathen.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (mT+6a)

76 That’s a Mezuzah in the left foreground, no?

No. It's the intercom, but back then they worked in semaphore instead of electricity.

Posted by: Robert Plant at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (PTJlB)

77 >73 I can smell this scene.

Posted by: The Nose Knows at December 12, 2025 09:45 AM (oftw2)

I just crop dusted my sister.

Posted by: Gal in the blue dress at December 12, 2025 09:46 AM (GTqXr)

78 What makes for a cankle (?) because the woman in the blue dress does not look like she has chubby ankles, although the right in slimmer than the left.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:40 AM (lQ+
*******
Usually, it's when there's no definition between the ankle and the leg or there is swelling in the leg.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

79 I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid.

When I read "Do not click to embiggen," I think "okay."

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 09:47 AM (W7XSX)

80 "Embiggen" needs to find its way into more people's lexicons.
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"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
Posted by: Jebediah Springfield

“I find your attitude most deleterious to the morale of this unit.”
- Word a Day Radar O'Reilly

Posted by: Tonypete at December 12, 2025 09:47 AM (cYBz/)

81 I can also hear the creaking of the stair treads.

Posted by: Lend Me Your Ears at December 12, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)

82 What makes for a cankle (?) because the woman in the blue dress does not look like she has chubby ankles, although the right in slimmer than the left.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
__________

Respectfully disagree. Thems cankles.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 12, 2025 09:47 AM (XvL8K)

83
Symbolism appears when you seek it; making Weasel angry is no doubt what the artist had in mind.

Would hang.

Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (Y8DZL)

84 Looks like a Hopper painting!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

85 "Sad Boobs and Buttcracks" was the working title of the movie that would ultimately be released as "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" at the insistence of Angela Landsbury.

Posted by: Movie nerd at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

86 Does the painting elicit any emotion or make you tell a story about it to yourself. Or do you just find it aesthetically pleasing beyond normal.

That’s how I personally judge whether a painting is better than good.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (KDPiq)

87 66 >>>I like this painting because it has a story to tell.

I have Type II diabetes but I manage it well
I like this painting because it has a story to tell
I take two daily Jardiance at each day start-a-a-rt...

Shit. I have to get out more.

Posted by: red speck at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (Ve/HL)

88
Dick head on the steps!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 09:48 AM (xG4kz)

89 This week's theme has been all about the elongation of body parts in paintings. Naturally, CBD selects elongated buttcracks and saggy boob for Friday.
Actual theme: The Aristocrats!?!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (NuV6c)

90 Both these chicks were hot stuff before electricity.

Posted by: Al Czervik at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

91 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 12, 2025 09:47 AM (XvL8K)

Oh, well. She's long past being worried about what people think of her cankles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (lQ+/f)

92 84 Yes, Wolfus, I thought it was a Hopper at first.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

93 Painting doesn't fit with my decor.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (sDNVV)

94 "Respectfully disagree. Thems cankles."

Is this about me?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (2Ez/1)

95 I like the curve of the underside of the stairs. In old homes like this (like 17th-18th century, they would plaster the underside of the stairs. Always struck me as odd, but I guess it's a way to keep from having to oil/varnish the underside of the stairs.

Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 09:50 AM (yT3KW)

96 What devilry is this? Do not embiggen leads me to defy authority. Meh, we've seen that one before and it's no longer shocking. Would not hang today's offering.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 12, 2025 09:51 AM (2NHgQ)

97 If he would have painted a man in a gangster suit and hat coming up the stairs it would have told a better story.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:51 AM (KDPiq)

98 Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ

Yes, it does look like his style.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:52 AM (lQ+/f)

99
A dog would make this scene more cheerful. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:52 AM (tgvbd)

100
[Do not click to embiggen]
----
Seriously. DON'T!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I LOLed.

I warned all y'all yesterday about the summoning power of certain prefixes, but would all y'all listen? Noooooo!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 09:52 AM (xG4kz)

101 The lack of handicap access is troubling to this modern, urban mind.

Posted by: The Gimp at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (oftw2)

102 Needs Tommy Udo shoving an old lady down the stairs.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (kpS4V)

103 Would hang.
Posted by: Auspex

It may not be the best painting in the world but hanging the artist seems a little extreme.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (L/fGl)

104 97 If he would have painted a man in a gangster suit and hat coming up the stairs it would have told a better story.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:51 AM (KDPiq)

Samurai Armor complete with Kabuto helmet.

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (UnA8+)

105
"You can come up, Mabel! They're done shooting! Looks like everyone's dead."

Posted by: Chicago Housewife at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (BI5O2)

106 Hopper has crisper lines but it does resemble the style somewhat.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:53 AM (KDPiq)

107
That is one wonky landing on that upper stairway.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (xG4kz)

108 If he would have painted a man in a gangster suit and hat coming up the stairs it would have told a better story.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:51 AM (KDPiq)

Samurai Armor complete with Kabuto helmet.

Beau Biden naked and painted blue.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (Riz8t)

109
I never like going up and down steep staircases like those.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (ESVrU)

Our house in Ohio was built in 1869. The stairs to the basement were not only steep, but the stairs themselves were unevenly spaced.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (tgvbd)

110 I embiggened, even tho CBD warned me! Aaaagh!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (kpS4V)

111 I’m basically the entire Lot family. “Do not click to embiggen”. I am a pillar of salt now, thank you so much. Someone is going to eventually knock the little plant off the window sill.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM (3uBP9)

112 Wasn’t global warming supposed to kill winter? Someone forgot to tell Chicago. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (9iyS+)

113
“Do not click to embiggen”

The "Wet Paint" of the Art Thread.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (tgvbd)

114 I too thought it was Hopperesque, but Hopper usually has that phosphorescent white deployed in his paintings.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (kpS4V)

115 [Do not click to embiggen]

Is this great art? No, but it is competently executed, the artist has obvious skill, and there is no obvious political bent to the work. And the scene is sufficiently complex that it suggests questions. What is going on? Who is the woman ascending the stairs? Why didn't John Moses Browning design a .50ACP?

The two obvious unasked questions this morning:

Why didn't JMB (PBUH) jump straight to the greatest of all handgun calibers, the .41 Magnum?

Why should we not click to embiggen?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (0sNs1)

116 A dog would make this scene more cheerful. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:52 AM (tgvbd)

The chick with boobs around her waist coming up the stairs fits the bill nicely.

Posted by: Typical piggish Moron at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (n9ltV)

117 Only reason I wanted to embiggen is to see if my guess was right.

I figure the horde would tell me soon enough.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (KDPiq)

118 Good news, everyone! Jesus is back!

Noted prosperity-gospel Televangelist Jesse Duplantis explains when you see him, you 'see the Father' and 'God incarnate.'

He later adds "you mad at me because I live in a mansion? I'm just acting like my father, because he's living in a mansion."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

119 I never click the Mystery Click

Until I am told not to.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (A0sqA)

120
Wasn’t global warming supposed to kill winter? Someone forgot to tell Chicago. lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 09:55 AM (9iyS+)

It's "Climate Change" and it's caused by you, Mr. and Mrs. Republican!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (tgvbd)

121 The Paolo, how you say, "embiggens" often.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

122 I've got short rib ragu simmering in the crockpot. Added Calabrian chilis to punch it up.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (kpS4V)

123 Sad Boobs and Buttcracks Forever

Posted by: the Outlaws at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (PSEDc)

124 What is going on? Who is the woman ascending the stairs?

**********

Tread carefully, CBD.
I've been stairing at this for a while and the scene obviously suggests more than one story but we should avoid flights of fancy just in case, or things might spiral out of control.

Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (/iMjX)

125 That is Taylor Swift turning her back on her boyfriend after he dropped two straight passes, right in his hands, in the 4th Q against the Texans - the second leading to a Texans pick. She is thinking "Another man I've ruined."

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (Da7Vv)

126 The stairs to the attic in my grandparent's home were ridiculously steep. And of course I was warned not to ascend them, which was like waving a red cape in front of a bull.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (n9ltV)

127 @115 aka whatever you do, do not push that red button!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (36PRH)

128 "Come on up, Ethel. I'll just be a few minutes tidying up before your next 'client' gets here."

Posted by: The Brothel Maid Service, Inc. at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)

129 That is one wonky landing on that upper stairway.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
______

And the steps looks to be spiral, so that slope must be brutal.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (XvL8K)

130 I embiggened, even tho CBD warned me! Aaaagh!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:54 AM

You also don't wear pants in the Book Thread, even tho The Perfessor warns you! (But no "Aaaagh!" from me. I report, you decide.)

Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (0sNs1)

131 >>>[Do not click to embiggen]

Easily the cruelest of the COBs.

Posted by: No Name Today at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (8mulE)

132
The chick with boobs around her waist coming up the stairs fits the bill nicely.
Posted by: Typical piggish Moron

Nancy Pelosi
On the stairway
With a hammer

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (xG4kz)

133 Our house in Ohio was built in 1869. The stairs to the basement were not only steep, but the stairs themselves were unevenly spaced.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I don't wanna go down to the basement. (There's something down there).

Posted by: Joey Ramone 1976 at December 12, 2025 09:58 AM (oftw2)

134 I've got short rib ragu simmering in the crockpot. Added Calabrian chilis to punch it up.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Uh-oh. Calabri chilis will get you in hot water with Mario Rubio.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

135 That'll teach 'em!

British judge fines migrant family £1 each for stealing £1.2 million

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)

136 Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 09:57 AM (/iMjX)

You are too full of baluster to get a rise out of me!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)

137 >>The lack of handicap access is troubling to this modern, urban mind.

Uh, have you met my neighbor, Christina?

Posted by: Andrew Wyeth at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (NuV6c)

138 I um, have a GLAVIN, Debigulator, for mhay mhay anyone who needs one...

Posted by: John Frink at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (y3u3n)

139 It’s nice how she worked the color of the bucket into the rest of her attire though.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (3uBP9)

140 a man in a gangster suit and hat coming up the stairs
Samurai Armor complete with Kabuto helmet.

Pizza delivery guy, and we'd be here all day writing plots for it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (zdLoL)

141 Nancy Pelosi
On the stairway
With a hammer
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Hey, Nancy, that's my hammer, dammit! Give it back!
-- Paul Pelosi

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

142 Easily the cruelest of the COBs.
Posted by: No Name Today

He's cruel, but he's fair.

Posted by: Mostly Cruel, Though. at December 12, 2025 10:00 AM (oftw2)

143 I would hang but change title to Ma Barker Gang Meeting

Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 10:01 AM (KDPiq)

144 The stairs to the attic in my grandparent's home were ridiculously steep. And of course I was warned not to ascend them, which was like waving a red cape in front of a bull.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Or telling us not to embiggen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 10:01 AM (L/fGl)

145 Wakes up
Scratches
Look's around
Dang. Great art! One could sit and look at it and create a whole story. Fun!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 10:01 AM (2WIwB)

146 "Why didn't John Moses Browning design a .50ACP?"

So there is a sniper hidden in the background.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:02 AM (0iZzW)

147 I'm inclined to raise the bar on these puns, one step at a time.

Posted by: Oh, no... at December 12, 2025 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

148
The cat in that dwelling will return that plant to its rightful place -- on the floor -- in short order.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:03 AM (xG4kz)

149 Or telling us not to embiggen.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 10:01 AM (L/fGl)

I'm so tempted to...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2025 10:03 AM (VE6XX)

150 Oh look, it's a future coprolite.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 10:04 AM (Riz8t)

151 Who is the woman ascending the stairs?

There are two (2) human figures in the frame, so,
somebody is about to get "ascended." It's a Rule.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 10:04 AM (zdLoL)

152 9 And who's the woman coming up the stairs in the bottom left?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:32 AM (L/fGl)

Before the internet, your NSA monitor sometimes had to make housecalls.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:04 AM (0iZzW)

153 I am doing some interactive art and putting accompanying sounds with the painting . Mini Bluetooth speaker behind the canvas.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 12, 2025 10:04 AM (KDPiq)

154 >>> "Why didn't John Moses Browning design a .50ACP?"

So there is a sniper hidden in the background.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:02 AM (0iZzW)

CBD is the sniper. Very meta.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 10:05 AM (3uBP9)

155 147 I'm inclined to raise the bar on these puns, one step at a time.
Posted by: Oh, no... at December 12, 2025 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

Morons are always willing to go on flights of fancy with these puns.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:05 AM (0iZzW)

156 The woman on the stairway is sure that all that glitters is gold.

Posted by: Led Zeppelin at December 12, 2025 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)

157
"... he fixes the cable?"

-- Commentary on the Cinema of Karl Hungus

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:07 AM (xG4kz)

158 WTF

Posted by: Denny Crane - CBD is a BASTARD at December 12, 2025 10:07 AM (i49OE)

159 a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man
- Jebedaia Springfield

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 10:07 AM (9iyS+)

160 If we deny our baser instincts then we become mutants worthy of scorn.

youtube.com/watch?v=0aY6PFccu-k&list =RD0aY6PFccu-k&start_radio=1

one space because I'm lazy

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:08 AM (1zOXE)

161 Morning.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (1Yy3c)

162 Alternate take: That is not a stairwell on the left, it's an alcove. The lady in red is not ascending, she is a severed torso propped against the wall. The woman in the dress is carrying a surgical tray full of freshly harvested organs from the traveling salesman in the bathtub upstairs, sedated and packed in ice. Sweeny Todd's Boarding House.

Too graphic?

Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (/iMjX)

163 159 a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man
- Jebedaia Springfield

----
“My Man Stands Out,” Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends (1950)

https://youtu.be/MrU63AFRQPk

Posted by: Double Entendre at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

164 Air rescues in Washington state ongoing for those who failed to heed evacuation order.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (Y1sOo)

165 40 When will we get back to good sensible landscape art from Kincaid?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (abIsI)

I would have thought you already got more Kincaid than you can handle this month.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (0iZzW)

166
It's no Stairway to Heaven, that's for sure.

Nice chenille robe, toots

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:10 AM (xG4kz)

167
Arrrrrrgh! Cankles!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:10 AM (xG4kz)

168 Crude, would not hang.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:11 AM (WDjG6)

169 Alternate take: That is not a stairwell on the left, it's an alcove. The lady in red is not ascending, she is a severed torso propped against the wall. The woman in the dress is carrying a surgical tray full of freshly harvested organs from the traveling salesman in the bathtub upstairs, sedated and packed in ice. Sweeny Todd's Boarding House.

Too graphic?
Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (/iMjX)

Cannibal Corpse would reject it for not being graphic enough.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:11 AM (1Yy3c)

170 There is a formula for stair tread, riser, and length of run that allows you to build even a steep stair that has a natural feel to it. And there is another system for making a spiral-step landing. I made one once for a tricky alcove, then altered the room and did away with it and kind of miss it, it being all artsy-craftsy and all.

It almost goes without saying that you can also deliberately get that formula wrong, and Hitchcock all and sundry to their deaths.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 10:11 AM (zdLoL)

171 Alternate take: That is not a stairwell on the left, it's an alcove. The lady in red is not ascending, she is a severed torso propped against the wall. The woman in the dress is carrying a surgical tray full of freshly harvested organs from the traveling salesman in the bathtub upstairs, sedated and packed in ice. Sweeny Todd's Boarding House.

Too graphic?
Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 10:09 AM (/iMjX)

No, that actually makes the painting better.

Posted by: Denny Crane - CBD is STILL a BASTARD at December 12, 2025 10:12 AM (i49OE)

172 135 That'll teach 'em!

British judge fines migrant family £1 each for stealing £1.2 million
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

I'm pretty sure in today's society rhat the number one job for a judge is to demoralize the law abiding citizen.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 10:12 AM (Dv3i1)

173 162 Alternate take: That is not a stairwell on the left, it's an alcove. The lady in red is not ascending, she is a severed torso propped against the wall. The woman in the dress is carrying a surgical tray full of freshly harvested organs from the traveling salesman in the bathtub upstairs, sedated and packed in ice. Sweeny Todd's Boarding House.

Too graphic?
Posted by: muldoon
=======
And then the murders started--

Too late?

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:13 AM (WDjG6)

174
That is not a stairwell on the left, it's an alcove.

There is, however, a bathroom on the right ... from which we, the viewers, are emerging.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:13 AM (xG4kz)

175 Why should we not click to embiggen?

Posted by: Duncanthrax

You really oughtta, man.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 12, 2025 10:13 AM (OUMaO)

176 Has anybody seen Doof today?

Fox News: Pickleball player plunges to his death in 3-story fall after climbing over safety rail to retrieve ball

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

177 175 Why should we not click to embiggen?

Posted by: Duncanthrax

=========
Depends on whether you are wearing pants. Might find pants constraining if you click.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:15 AM (WDjG6)

178
You really oughtta, man.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum

Great will be your reward!

No, really! Really, really great!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:16 AM (xG4kz)

179 Many things are off in this painting. Not only the plants. The whole room. The panes of glass, the stair steps, the flooring doesn't match. No, I don't like it. It looks like it was painted in steps and the steps are not tied in together like they should be.

Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 10:16 AM (G1OIb)

180 Self described "Black, queer, gender-fluid, associate pastor" arrested for stealing $3 million by way of Black Lives Matter.

https://is.gd/U30dEb9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

181 it suggests questions.

What twinkle toed communist Hoosier GOPe cock-sucker just signed his own death warrant. Or at least failed badly enough that I have to look him up so I can not vote for him.

Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2025 10:17 AM (FhXTo)

182
There's a woman ascending the stairs
Some say that she's always been there
And a ghost dressed in blue
Haunts the halls on Floor Two
On Floor Three, your place is a chair.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:17 AM (iJfKG)

183 180 Self described "Black, queer, gender-fluid, associate pastor" arrested for stealing $3 million by way of Black Lives Matter.

https://is.gd/U30dEb9
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

He’ll get a 30 day suspended sentence and promise to never do it again. But keep the money of course.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 10:18 AM (9iyS+)

184
Hello. Ned!
How do you do!
Tell me, tell me
What is new?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:19 AM (xG4kz)

185 And the scene is sufficiently complex that it suggests questions.

One might even say it insists upon itself.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 10:19 AM (Riz8t)

186 Fox News: Pickleball player plunges to his death in 3-story fall after climbing over safety rail to retrieve ball
Posted by: Bulg

More like Pickeball enthusiast arrested after violating city noise ordinance. Neighbor Gladys Kravitz explained, "That Mr. Doof was pickleballing day and night and I found it obscene because of the loud noises he was making hitting those balls hard with his partner." "Why couldn't that man pick up a decent sport like Tennis instead."

Officer Muldoon in Car 54 which responded to the call, when asked for a response said, " You can't just play pickleball wherever and whenever you feel like it. We got laws and morals in this city!"

The accused, Mr. Doof, was unavailable for comment for this story as he is currently in maximum security lockdown for trying to play solo pickleball in his cell.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:21 AM (WDjG6)

187 Self described "Black, queer, gender-fluid, associate pastor" arrested for stealing $3 million by way of Black Lives Matter.

So many buttons for that sweating meme guy to choose from.

Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 10:22 AM (T7fic)

188 Why didn't John Moses Browning design a .50ACP?
----------------
Cuz, you'll shoot your eye out, kid.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 10:23 AM (Wg6v7)

189 British judge fines migrant family £1 each for stealing £1.2 million
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)

That's a heck of a big family!

Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 10:23 AM (O9D0G)

190 187 Self described "Black, queer, gender-fluid, associate pastor" arrested for stealing $3 million by way of Black Lives Matter.

So many buttons for that sweating meme guy to choose from.
Posted by: t-bird

Rewritten, "Weirdo sex pervert pastor steals millions from his own fake charity"

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:24 AM (WDjG6)

191 I'm pretty sure in today's society that the number one job for a “judge” is to demoralize the law abiding citizen.
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True enough, but it’s clear they apparently don’t have any education rooted in even a cursory look at history, because there’s only one way this kind of jiggery-pokery ever resolves. I’m thankful I’ve lived long enough to see it, I can at least go out laughing my ass off.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (04lxq)

192 Rewritten, "Weirdo sex pervert pastor steals millions from his own fake charity"
Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:24 AM (WDjG6)

If it's a fake charity then was it really stealing?

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (1Yy3c)

193 Was the British “judge” also a Muzzie per chance?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (9iyS+)

194 >Fox News: Pickleball player plunges to his death in 3-story fall after climbing over safety rail to retrieve ball
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what kind of ball do they use

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (ZxPkt)

195 188 Why didn't John Moses Browning design a .50ACP?

Easy, he was busy designing a 50 BMG instead. Greater length, more power, more penetration that could go the distance. Girthier and Lengthier than a mere 50 ACP.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:26 AM (WDjG6)

196 "Jiggery-pokery" would be a good title for a pron flick.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

197 Rewritten, "Weirdo sex pervert pastor steals millions from his own fake charity"
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He should have called it The Fagz Global Initiative. Money would flow like wine!

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2025 10:26 AM (Wg6v7)

198 If it's a fake charity then was it really stealing?
Posted by: Robert
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Huh, a legal conundrum that would be.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)

199 I'm pretty sure in today's society that the number one job for a “judge” is to demoralize the law abiding citizen.
——-

True enough, but it’s clear they apparently don’t have any education rooted in even a cursory look at history, because there’s only one way this kind of jiggery-pokery ever resolves.

Their whole lives will come tumbreling down.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (Riz8t)

200 Fox News: Pickleball player plunges to his death in 3-story fall after climbing over safety rail to retrieve ball
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what kind of ball do they use
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 10:25 AM (ZxPkt)

I think it's a shuttlecock.

Shuttlecock.

Shuttlecock.

I don't care what anyone says that word will never stop being funny.

Shuttlecock.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (1Yy3c)

201 Pickleball was created for people who are too shitty at playing badminton and pin-pong. But it's all good.

I, on the other hand am a cornhole expert because horseshoes is too much work when I drinking.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (1zOXE)

202 He should have called it The Fagz Global Initiative. Money would flow like wine!
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Mebbe. Genderqueer is an all encompassing sex pervert label for deviants. It is the label for our times unfortunately. Waiting for the NYT headline--"God is Dead and We are all Genderqueer Now".

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:29 AM (WDjG6)

203 I, on the other hand am a cornhole expert
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM (1zOXE)

How YOU doin'?!?

Posted by: Don Lemon at December 12, 2025 10:29 AM (1Yy3c)

204 I, on the other hand am a cornhole expert because horseshoes is too much work when I drinking.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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That sport has unfortunate connotations in the Dixie meaning quite something else.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:30 AM (WDjG6)

205
How many times do I have to warn you to get that mannequin off the stairway? I'll just have to toss this offal out through your room's window! Enjoy the smell!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 10:30 AM (xG4kz)

206 Their whole lives will come tumbreling down.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I think that is illegal in Kentucky.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)

207 22 house Republicans joined Democrats to pass a bill repealing a Trump EO making it easier to fire fedgov employees.

It won’t become law of course but shows how many traitorous fucks there are in the GOP house. Which is why I’m like if the Ds win it back, will anyone even notice? Answer: no.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2025 10:31 AM (9iyS+)

208 what kind of ball do they use
Posted by: Don Black
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Big ones. Bigger paddle too.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:32 AM (WDjG6)

209 Stalker On The Stairs vibe. I play it with my cats.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 12, 2025 10:32 AM (MSlZp)

210 So, now I have a dilemma. Do I 1) just toss the matching sock back in the dirty clothes bin with the dirty one, and suck up being one pair short all week? Or, 2) do I just wear the dirty one with its clean mate sometime this week, so I now have a dirty pair to wash next time?

It is well to choose, early in life, a single type and color of sock. Do not deviate from the path, grasshopper.

Such problems as described above could never arise even if one were to grab two socks at random, they will match.

Q.E.D.

Posted by: Sock It To Me! at December 12, 2025 10:33 AM (04lxq)

211 All of you are wrong. This is an upstairs brothel.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 12, 2025 10:34 AM (g8Ew8)

212 It won’t become law of course but shows how many traitorous fucks there are in the GOP house. Which is why I’m like if the Ds win it back, will anyone even notice? Answer: no.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Except we will have tiresome impeachments which also go nowhere designed to disrupt government.

I just as soon have do nothing GOP types instead annoying assholes of House Dems strutting around on TV and social media.

The main blockage to anything decent is the Senate filibuster and refusal to recess so Trump can put the rest of his people in until after the next election. That is fully in control of the GOP there.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (WDjG6)

213 >>>That sport has unfortunate connotations in the Dixie meaning quite something else.

Posted by: whig

>Well, here at the AOSHQ, we're granted certain allowances depending upon your membership status.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (1zOXE)

214 Hey Peter! Mind your cornhole.

Posted by: Lawrence at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (PSEDc)

215 If the sock isn't that dirty just wear it another day.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (1Yy3c)

216 Via Insty

81% of Somali households in Minnesota are on welfare.

https://instapundit.com/761906/

If you enter this country as an immigrant, and go on welfare, at any point in your life,

that should earn you an instant ride back home.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (iJfKG)

217 209 Stalker On The Stairs vibe. I play it with my cats.
Posted by: Bad Andrew
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Fun game unless you have a Siamese. Some of them will jump on you from on high with claw landing gear fully extended for maximum traction.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:36 AM (WDjG6)

218 That sport has unfortunate connotations in the Dixie meaning quite something else.
——

You Ain’t Never Wrong, Honkie!

Posted by: Dr. Cornhole West at December 12, 2025 10:36 AM (04lxq)

219 I like big balls and I cannot lie.

Posted by: Sir PicksALot at December 12, 2025 10:37 AM (2Ez/1)

220 [Do not click to embiggen]

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lol

What, "You know what you did" wasn't available?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:37 AM (25a1J)

221 212 It won’t become law of course but shows how many traitorous fucks there are in the GOP house. Which is why I’m like if the Ds win it back, will anyone even notice? Answer: no.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome - we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until HE ends the game, not us.

Posted by: Robert W. Pratt at December 12, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY)

222 If you enter this country as an immigrant, and go on welfare, at any point in your life,

that should earn you an instant ride back home.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (iJfKG)

Congress could easily fix it with a law that says gub'mint bennies are reserved for citizens only.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:38 AM (1Yy3c)

223 Well, here at the AOSHQ, we're granted certain allowances depending upon your membership status.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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FWIW, the phrase probably came into use because corn cobs were used for a certain necessary body function in lieu of pages from magazines or the Sears and Roebuck catalog.

The only way to win cornhole is not to play as WOPR (aka Joshua) said.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:38 AM (WDjG6)

224 At Reuters: "Romania finds two masseuses with leprosy"

Well, at least their jobs don't bring them into intimate contact with other people. So there's that.

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (GHIyr)

225 If you enter this country as an immigrant, and go on welfare, at any point in your life,

that should earn you an instant ride back home.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (iJfKG)

My understanding is as an immigrant, you cannot get welfare. Meaning (if true) someone is on the take.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (rQwsY)

226 Jemele Hill is race-baiting again over the firing of Michigan's Sherrone Moore, saying he won't get another coaching gig, whereas a number of white coaches who were fired over inappropriate relations with women all were hired again elsewhere.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (Y1sOo)

227 Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome - we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until HE ends the game, not us.
Posted by: Robert W. Pratt
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Tis true.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (WDjG6)

228 Is that a shuttlecock in your cornhole or are you just happy to see me?

Posted by: The chick on the stairs at December 12, 2025 10:40 AM (2Ez/1)

229 Thanks for the comment of Mr. Pratt.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 10:41 AM (looXz)

230 Hail Schlürpo

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 10:42 AM (rQwsY)

231 TV ad for phantom of the opera includes some twat in mexican gard incl Sombrero. WTF

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 10:42 AM (Kt19C)

232 Who is the woman ascending the stairs?

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The Barbara Hershey character (Harriet Bird) who shoots the Robert Redford character (Roy Hobbs) in "The Natural."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:42 AM (25a1J)

233 Gard = garb, fucking autocucumber

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 10:43 AM (Kt19C)

234 226 Jemele Hill is race-baiting again over the firing of Michigan's Sherrone Moore, saying he won't get another coaching gig, whereas a number of white coaches who were fired over inappropriate relations with women all were hired again elsewhere.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (Y1sOo)

When ISN’T she race baiting?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 10:43 AM (rQwsY)

235 Barbara Hershey has a great rack.

The best thing (two things, really) about Hannah and Her Sisters.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

236 211 All of you are wrong. This is an upstairs brothel.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

I can't eat soup in the summertime.

Posted by: Cream of Chicken at December 12, 2025 10:44 AM (oftw2)

237 TV ad for phantom of the opera includes some twat in mexican gard incl Sombrero. WTF

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 12, 2025 10:42 AM (Kt19C)

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"Hakeem Jeffries is El Fantasma de la Ópera!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:44 AM (25a1J)

238 "Gard = garb"

Guarb? As in "Miss Sweeney, please drop your guarb."

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 10:44 AM (GHIyr)

239 >>>When ISN’T she race baiting?

On days that don't end in the letter 'y.'

Posted by: one hour sober at December 12, 2025 10:45 AM (Y1sOo)

240 176 Has anybody seen Doof today?

Fox News: Pickleball player plunges to his death in 3-story fall after climbing over safety rail to retrieve ball
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

Thanks for your concern! I'm alive and well.

Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2025 10:45 AM (CwUhY)

241 225 If you enter this country as an immigrant, and go on welfare, at any point in your life,

that should earn you an instant ride back home.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:35 AM (iJfKG)

My understanding is as an immigrant, you cannot get welfare. Meaning (if true) someone is on the take.
Posted by: Cow Demon

IIRC, refugees come in under separate provisions of the law. You can blame GHWB for that whole mess which also turned ME blue as well.

Refugee treaties always require people to go to the adjacent safest adjacent country, not fly them across the ocean to the US.

Our political class found refugee classification to be a useful way to bring in cheap labor for various tasks and the Democrats, welfare clients plus D voters.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:45 AM (WDjG6)

242 >>>FWIW, the phrase probably came into use because corn cobs were used for a certain necessary body function in lieu of pages from magazines or the Sears and Roebuck catalog.

The only way to win cornhole is not to play as WOPR (aka Joshua) said.

Posted by: whig

>Back at the bunkhouse, we always wrapped one page of the Sears and Roebuck around the corncob because it was too aggressive to crumple it up like modern-day paper.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 10:46 AM (1zOXE)

243 224 At Reuters: "Romania finds two masseuses with leprosy"

Well, at least their jobs don't bring them into intimate contact with other people. So there's that.
Posted by: gp
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"Have you engaged in rub and tug recently?" becomes a new screening question for doctors in Romania.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:47 AM (WDjG6)

244 Thanks for your concern! I'm alive and well.
Posted by: Doof

Good to hear!

I figured you were too smart to do something boneheaded like that anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

245 215 If the sock isn't that dirty just wear it another day.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus

Which fashion industry fag decreed that socks must match?

Posted by: Diversity Is Our Strength at December 12, 2025 10:47 AM (oftw2)

246 osted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:39 AM (WDjG6)

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@whig

I belatedly saw your comment a couple days ago about having had "perfect pitch" (very cool!) prior to suffering from tinnitus (I now have and hate that) owing to Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) -- which I'd never heard of (and so sorry to hear).

Anyway, you're probably already aware -- but if not (or others are not): I have a good friend who was afflicted with awful psoriasis for a couple of years (I think he was being treated with nitric oxide or something) and his skin would continuously crust up and bleed (he spend the night once and his bed sheets were all bloody).

He stumbled onto somebody (maybe Dr. Eric Berg?) who recommended 50,000 IU of Vitamin D daily -- and it quickly cured his psoriasis!

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[Piper responded:] "If you want to do this, please do it with your doctor. Short term, these doses under medical supervision may be okay. But VIT D toxicity is a thing, tummy upset, fatigue, etc. Plus, if you want to go at those levels, getting them in a shot form is easier."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:48 AM (25a1J)

247 Isn't Doof on the disabled list with a bad knee or wheel, or something?

Posted by: I Pay Attention at December 12, 2025 10:49 AM (oftw2)

248 Which fashion industry fag decreed that socks must match?
Posted by: Diversity Is Our Strength

I've told the story here before about an extremely hot woman I used to work with. She let out a scream in the breakroom, and all the guys rushed to her rescue, only to find out that she had screamed upon discovering that her socks didn't match.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

249 Via Insty

81% of Somali households in Minnesota are on welfare.

Are Americans the only unserved economic refugees on this planet?

Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2025 10:51 AM (T7fic)

250 >>> 118 Good news, everyone! Jesus is back!

Noted prosperity-gospel Televangelist Jesse Duplantis explains when you see him, you 'see the Father' and 'God incarnate.'

He later adds "you mad at me because I live in a mansion? I'm just acting like my father, because he's living in a mansion."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

What's the big deal?

Posted by: Anthony SCIENCE!!! Fauci at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (ULPxl)

251
So, last night we were watching "As Good As It Gets" again, I think on Netflix, and I turns to the lovely and delightful Mrs naturalfake, and I says-

I says, "This is such a good movie. Great acting, writing, directing. I wonder why Ol' Brooks stopped making movies."

So, I look him up and, he's just released a new movie!

Buuuuut, almost all of the critics, straight up hate it, which makes me wonder if he somehow violated some libtardian principle and that set their hair on fire.

Christian Toto gives it a middling recommendation, so we may go see it. Maybe no. Just wait for streaming.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

252 Good to hear!

I figured you were too smart to do something boneheaded like that anyway.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

You give me too much credit

Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2025 10:53 AM (CwUhY)

253 "Just wait for streaming."

Always a safe choice.

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 10:53 AM (GHIyr)

254 . . .
He stumbled onto somebody (maybe Dr. Eric Berg?) who recommended 50,000 IU of Vitamin D daily -- and it quickly cured his psoriasis!

---------

[Piper responded:] "If you want to do this, please do it with your doctor. Short term, these doses under medical supervision may be okay. But VIT D toxicity is a thing, tummy upset, fatigue, etc. Plus, if you want to go at those levels, getting them in a shot form is easier."
Posted by: ShainS
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Thanks.
My new medication Rinvoq seems to be working at least for now. Finally got off from Cosentyx which never worked for me after insurance would not let me take Humira any longer. I will mention it to my rheumatologist but due to impending spinal surgery probably can't make any changes in meds for awhile.

I take Vitamin D3 supplements anyway as I am doubly cursed to get respiratory infections--via medication and a (genetic?) deficiency in IGG4 subtype.

FWIW, Quercetin is also a proven anti inflammatory and also anti seasonal allergen for some people. Also taken with zinc, has some anti viral applications. Took it too in the past until it interacted with one of my other meds.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (WDjG6)

255 251 So, I look him up and, he's just released a new movie!

Buuuuut, almost all of the critics, straight up hate it, which makes me wonder if he somehow violated some libtardian principle and that set their hair on fire.

Christian Toto gives it a middling recommendation, so we may go see it. Maybe no. Just wait for streaming.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

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I will never quite understand this Brooks' popularity.

I mean, Broadcast News is fine. But, little more than that. And Hollywood loved him, and his movies made good money.

They always feel very middling to me, though I don't think I've seen As Good As It Gets all the way through.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

256
253 "Just wait for streaming."

Always a safe choice.

Posted by: gp at December 12, 2025 10:53 AM (GHIyr)

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"My God, Bones...what have I done?"
-Hollywood, having blown up theatrical to get Orange Man Bad

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

257 Isn't Doof on the disabled list with a bad knee or wheel, or something?
Posted by: I Pay Attention at December 12, 2025 10:49 AM (oftw2)

Wow, you do pay attention. Yup - haven't played in a month or so. Knee was in bad shape. But I'm on some good meds that took care of the swelling and inflammation. Probably back on the court this weekend to see how it goes.

Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2025 10:55 AM (CwUhY)

258 He later adds "you mad at me because I live in a mansion? I'm just acting like my father, because he's living in a mansion."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

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This plane I′m riding, they say it's leaving
For a place where we′ll never die
And the pilot will be my Jesus
To my mansion up in the sky

/obligatory

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 10:56 AM (25a1J)

259 Are Americans the only unserved economic refugees on this planet?
Posted by: t-bird
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Americans are viewed, even by some other Americans that should know better, as a lottery winner in the world. That means everyone in the world believes we have magic dirt and it is unfair to prevent all the world from enjoying our magic dirt.

Same as lottery winners are treated by those around them and even strangers: as a private welfare agency.

Somehow people feel they deserve what other people have in return for nothing.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:57 AM (WDjG6)

260 Those prosperity preachers are something else, and I don't mean that in a good way!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 10:58 AM (looXz)

261 I don't care what anyone says that word will never stop being funny.

Shuttlecock.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 10:27 AM

Spatchcock > shuttlecock

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2025 10:58 AM (kgE5c)

262 "Noted prosperity-gospel Televangelist Jesse Duplantis explains when you see him, you 'see the Father' and 'God incarnate.'"

Groan.

Ignore it...you will explain your own life choices to G-d, Who won't ask you anything about Jesse.

Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
Phillipians 3:14
I, Paul, press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of G-d in Christ Jesus.

Posted by: ju at December 12, 2025 10:58 AM (EgpoY)

263 Those prosperity preachers are something else, and I don't mean that in a good way!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Prosperity gospel is a heresy.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

264 Why does it look like she has a limp?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 10:59 AM (MeJZi)

265 Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ

Yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 10:59 AM (looXz)

266 258 This plane I′m riding, they say it's leaving
For a place where we′ll never die
And the pilot will be my Jesus
To my mansion up in the sky

i don't care if it rains or freezes
as long as i've got my plastic jesus
riding on the dashboard of my car

Posted by: anachronda at December 12, 2025 10:59 AM (v3pYe)

267 Prosperity preachers?

Scrooge would like a word with them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 12, 2025 11:01 AM (MeJZi)

268 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

269 I don't think I've seen As Good As It Gets all the way through.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

Watch it. Right now. Go. Go!

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 12, 2025 11:01 AM (1Yy3c)

270
nood Throck Buckmorton

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 11:01 AM (tljrc)

271 [snip]

FWIW, Quercetin is also a proven anti inflammatory and also anti seasonal allergen for some people. Also taken with zinc, has some anti viral applications. Took it too in the past until it interacted with one of my other meds.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (WDjG6

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Wifey is into a long list of supplements (and apparently you need co-factor supplements along with Vitamin D3 like K2, Zinc, Magnesium Glysinate, and dietary fat -- but not with Iron as that competes with D3).

Along with a myriad of other vitamins, she's also taking DMSO, Collagen, Creatine, and straight Glycine.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 11:02 AM (25a1J)

272 Remember:
Your average Republican didn't run for office because they were successful in private life.
They started life with a 99 yard head start in 100 yard dash, tripped over their feet, but found success in a single election.

I mean, not one Republican of the last 50 years had even half the fights Trump went through.

They're a bunch of faggoty ballet dancers prancing around the octagon confused at why the crowd isn't cheering for them.

"But I've rolled up my sleeves! I'm shadow punching the air! What more do you want?!"

Draw blood, bitch.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 11:03 AM (HXT0k)

273 Wow, you do pay attention. Yup - haven't played in a month or so. Knee was in bad shape. But I'm on some good meds that took care of the swelling and inflammation. Probably back on the court this weekend to see how it goes.
Posted by: Doof
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FWIW,
Warning, if you take steroid shots to the knee for pain, it can soften the cartilage for a time making it more likely to tear.

Also avoid K-flex, Levaquin, and other Fluoroquinolones as they can have the same effect of softening cartilege. Levaquin is now black labeled by the FDA because of it.

Botched ACL surgery with the initial tear possibly caused by Levaquin administration for sinus infection is what started me on my road to ruin.

Hyaluronic acid shots can also have separate side effects.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:03 AM (WDjG6)

274 So, I look him up and, he's just released a new movie!

Buuuuut, almost all of the critics, straight up hate it, which makes me wonder if he somehow violated some libtardian principle and that set their hair on fire.

Christian Toto gives it a middling recommendation, so we may go see it. Maybe no. Just wait for streaming.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

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I will never quite understand this Brooks' popularity.

I mean, Broadcast News is fine. But, little more than that. And Hollywood loved him, and his movies made good money.

They always feel very middling to me, though I don't think I've seen As Good As It Gets all the way through.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 12, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

Ah, well. De gustibus and all that.

His writing is generally great. And I think his great gift is to make people feel"smart" for lack of a better word, while watching his movies filled with articulate people who still feel real, and you get to ride along.

He kind of reminds me of Paddy Chayefsky in that regard, except Ol Pads give you screaming drama instead of Ol Brooke's light comedy.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 11:04 AM (iJfKG)

275
Reuters: "Romania finds two masseuses with leprosy"

Well, at least their jobs don't bring them into intimate contact with other people. So there's that.
Posted by: gp

The next thing you know, Bulgaria will find three with leprosy. Balkan rivalries are serious, yo!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 12, 2025 11:05 AM (xG4kz)

276 224 At Reuters: "Romania finds two masseuses with leprosy"

Well, at least their jobs don't bring them into intimate contact with other people. So there's that.
Posted by: gp

Don't ask for the unhappy ending

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 11:10 AM (Dv3i1)

277 Wifey is into a long list of supplements (and apparently you need co-factor supplements along with Vitamin D3 like K2, Zinc, Magnesium Glysinate, and dietary fat -- but not with Iron as that competes with D3).

Along with a myriad of other vitamins, she's also taking DMSO, Collagen, Creatine, and straight Glycine.
Posted by: ShainS
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Because of existing prescription meds, I am very careful about which supplements I take or even additional drugs which I keep to a minimum. Too many chances for interactions that simply are not even researched.

Basically, the psoriatic arthritis led to a condition of Ankylosing spondylitis which is in the process of fusing my spine. I take the Rinvoq as much to slow and stave out that as I do for the psoriatic arthritis. Before Rinvoq, I took Humira and then Cosentyx which are recommended for it.

The longer you have inflammatory arthritis, the more damage it does but you can and do go into remission at times. Over time, the inflammatory arthritis will pick and choose which other organs it will attack. In my case, the spine and inside one of my ears for whatever reason; in others, it will attack the heart, or other internal organs.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:11 AM (WDjG6)

278 His writing is generally great. And I think his great gift is to make people feel"smart" for lack of a better word, while watching his movies filled with articulate people who still feel real, and you get to ride along.

He kind of reminds me of Paddy Chayefsky in that regard, except Ol Pads give you screaming drama instead of Ol Brooke's light comedy.
Posted by: naturalfake
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In his best films, I would agree with you. Brooks is the type that makes lemonade out of lemons in his movies which are never big on action or even much drama but are essentially snapshots into other people's lives. Even in his lesser films, his characters seem more real but flat to some because you don't get the big emotional highs or lows but instead witty urbanites muddling through.

Like Defending Your Life for example. Brooks is neither a great hero nor is he a despicable villain. He just seems average as does Meryl Streep and his trial which in other hands would seem to be dramatic, instead his character is more peevish and neurotic than dramatic. Rip Torn is the liveliest actor in that movie.

Posted by: whig at December 12, 2025 11:19 AM (WDjG6)

279 CBD asks some good questions that a "civilian" would ask...but an artist sees this work through an entirely different lens: of elements that make up the work, of tonalities, brushwork, etc.

that's why sometimes we really appreciate paintings that most of the world consider just "meh".

also, the embiggening trick was pretty good

Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2025 11:26 AM (dCxaZ)

280 Live-in help using the back kitchen stairway from the an upper floor servants quarters. Somebody coming upstairs from a foyer or landing.

Posted by: LegoBrandon at December 12, 2025 01:42 PM (njAFV)

The Morning Report — 12/12/25

Good morning kids. In its nearly 200-year rampage to attain absolute power, the Left and its political epicenter have worked feverishly via the Communist playbook to tear down every pillar of our society, history and heritage that undergirds the American experiment that had made us the exception to every other one that has come before us and since in human history, hence the term "American exceptionalism." We are or were the exception to all other forms of government that degraded, demeaned and relegated the individual as mere servants, serfs and slaves to all powerful rulers, kings and dictators. One of the key pillars of our society, and a source of pride and inspiration has been our military, especially those who serve and have served honorably and most especially to those who gave their lives to keep us free and preserve the bastion and beacon and shining example of freedom for the world (which sadly has decided that the opposite is preferable so that for the most part, we have 200 or so Cubas and Somalias all over the globe).

Coming back from that tangent and to our military, one of the greatest achievements that President Trump and his outstanding Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have done is to restore our military to razor-sharp readiness and effectiveness in the defense of this nation and its interests. That which had deteriorated to such an extent in the wake of 9/11 and the muddled insanity of the so-called insane Global War on Terror which in point of fact under Dubya, Cheney and various and sundry others became the eternal state of War on Terra and the equally mad nation-building scam that did nothing but demoralize Americans at home as their sons and daughters came home in flag-draped caskets while inspiring foreigners whose nations we pulverized while alienating them to hate us even more than before we arrived to "liberate" them from that which they did not want to be liberated, primarily ISLAM.

Because this President is putting an end to all that nonsense, he has earned some of the bitterest of enemies within the global militarist (not military) and corrupted failed diplomatic circles that have created much of the Post World War 2 mess that we find ourselves in. In rejiggering our military and foreign policy to one that is America-centric, he has put himself and his allies like Hegseth firmly in the crosshairs of some very pissed off individuals who do not appreciate their decades long power and influence taken away from them. And given the attempts on Trump crosshairs is for sure appropriate. And now, with first the strikes on Iran's nuclear capabilities and now the interdiction and elimination of narco-terrorist smuggling boats, some if not all aided and abetted by central and South American nation states along with Red CHina, the chattering classes are yammering away endlessly about war crimes.

They're not merely beating their gums.

In the 1990s, Captain Michael Cronin, a Navy pilot who had been captured and tortured in Vietnam, began to lobby for a bill that would hold his Vietnamese torturers accountable.
The ‘War Crimes Act’ was passed and Cronin died in 2020 without his torturers facing justice.
The bill, originally sold as a way to hold torturers of Americans accountable, did nothing to stop abuses of American prisoners, either by Communist or Islamist foes. Its criminalization of Geneva Conviction violations was never going to matter to our enemies, instead it became a weapon used by them, and their radical allies in the United States, against our troops.
Republican House and Senate majorities allowed the ‘War Crimes Act’ to sail through even though it had been loaded with the biggest poison pill of all, applying its provisions to American soldiers, and President Bill Clinton, a former anti-war protester, gleefully signed it into law.
The ‘War Crimes Act of 1996’ was the fever dream wishlist of every anti-Vietnam War protester, threatening to prosecute American soldiers for international law violations, and would probably never have become law if it hadn’t been smuggled through using a Vietnam War POW as an unwitting human shield. Once the bill had been passed, it was weaponized against Americans.

In a not necessarily unrelated story from a few weeks ago, Zohran Mamdani the mayor-elect of NYC announced his intention to arrest Bibi Netanyahu and hand him over to the International Criminal Court for the unspeakable crime of defending Jews from Islamic genocide. Mamdani's election is I fear not merely a one-off but given the embrace of socialism by the younger generations of voters and sadly older ones as well, and the vicissitudes of American electoral politics, sadly one day we will once again have a Democrat in the White House, will he/she/It be merely a typical liberal schmuck or a full-on Maoist like Mamdani and his ilk?!

Regardless, America as founded, what remains of it and what had been restored and please God is yet to be restored by the second half of Trump 2.0 and perhaps two terms of a President Vance, will once again be ripped apart by the next incarnation of Obama on radioactive steroids.

I predict that if/when (ugh!) that nightmare becomes a reality, Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and perhaps most of the flag officer corps involved in the sinking of the Venezuelan drug boats as well as the bombing of Iran will be charged with war crimes. Given the nature of the lawsuits and shampeachments that Trump has gone through, as well as the persecution via prosecution of the J-6 protesters, you can guess the rest.

And with that, will be the final nail in the coffin of the United States armed forces. It will be transmogrified into something akin to the Red Guards or Iran's IRGC.

Not to worry, we'll always have the GOP:

The Indiana State Senate rejected a plan to redraw the Hoosier State’s congressional map before the 2026 midterm elections. President Donald J. Trump and Governor Mike Braun (R-IN) pushed Republican lawmakers in the legislature to back the plan, but Republican defections scuttled the bill that would have redrawn the map on Thursday.Under the failed proposal, the congressional districts for Representatives Frank Mrvan (D-IN) and Andre Carson (D-IN) would have essentially been eliminated and replaced with two Republican-leaning seats, making the entire state’s delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives a Republican one. Currently, Republicans hold seven of the state’s nine U.S. House seats.The setback in Indiana follows a recent Supreme Court decision allowing Texas to use its newly redrawn map, which creates five additional GOP-favorable districts. Indiana had become a focal point in Trump’s nationwide effort to reshape congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms, a strategy aimed at maintaining the narrow Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

GOP = GRIFTING OLEAGENOUS PARASITES

And, I must admit that when I saw this story,
Charlie Kirk's Alleged Assassin Smirks During First In-Person Hearing

the first image that popped into my head was Jack Ruby getting up close and personal with L.H. Oswald. Oh well.

And now to some innocent teenage hijinx! I suppose their team is particularly adept at "The Blitz!"

San Jose Students Form 'Human Swastika' on School Football Field

Have a great weekend.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Pritzker's signature on Illinois state HB 1312 puts him in open rebellion against the federal government.
J.B. Pritzker and the Act of Choosing Sides

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

“The Department of Justice is committed to unraveling and prosecuting fraud in the Black Lives Matter organization, and this case illustrates how some in the group’s leadership allegedly used donor money to bankroll their own lifestyles,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News. “We have zero tolerance for any kind of fraud perpetrated against the American people and will continue bringing fraudsters to justice as cases arise.” (I care more about their terrorism than scamming clueless liberal stooges - jjs)
Exclusive — BLM Official in Oklahoma City Charged with Wire Fraud and Money Laundering
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
“This is naked judicial activism by an Obama appointed judge."
Federal Judge Orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia Freed From ICE Custody
Americans are seeing relief in the housing market, with rents decreasing and housing availability improving due to the significant drop in illegal immigrants.
DHS Claims Record 2.5 Million Illegal Immigrants Have Left U.S. (about 40 million more to go - jjs)
The arrests highlight federal efforts to dismantle sanctuary protections and prioritize public safety by removing dangerous criminal aliens from American communities.
ICE Crackdown in Dem City Captures Rapists, Smugglers, Child Abusers.
We used to base citizenship on consent, not birth. In an era of mass immigration, it’s time to get back to that older understanding.
‘Birthright Citizenship’ Is A Feudal Relic That Has No Place In America
At this rate, Somalis will outnumber African-Americans in Minnesota.
Somalis are Replacing Black People in Minnesota
Now the judges demand extra personal security.
Rep. Andy Ogles Exposes Judges Who Released Somali Migrant Suspect For Brutal Rape of Woman Who Later Died

NATIONAL GUARDSMEN GUNNED DOWN IN DC, by Biden-Imported Islamic Savage
Democrats have a knack for downplaying political violence when it suits their political narrative, but Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) took it to a new, disgraceful low on Thursday.
Democrat Congressman Calls Assassination of National Guardsman an ‘Unfortunate Accident’
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
This was the second rejection in a week as the DOJ tries to revive its mortgage fraud case against James.
Virginia Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Letitia James
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The Constitution defines three, not four, branches of government.
Shutting Down the 'Fourth Branch'
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The Democrats, of course.
Who Made Life In The U.S. Unaffordable?
The affordability crisis will likely worsen if current trends continue and political leaders refuse to address the root causes.
Five Solutions to the Affordability Crisis
"When will the Fake Polls show that I am doing a great job on the Economy, and much more???"
Trump Celebrates New All-Time High For Stock Market, Calls Polling On Economy ‘Fake’
The checks will come in the first quarter of 2026 as a result of tax cuts in President Donald Trump’s sweeping, budget-focused One Big Beautiful Bill Act, he said.
Working Americans will soon get ‘very large refunds’ of up to $2K per household: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
U.S. exports surged 3.0 percent, while real imports rose modestly by 0.7 percent, indicating a rebalancing of trade flows.
Trump Tariffs Have Significantly Reduced U.S. Trade Deficit.
CHARLIE KIRK'S ASSASSINATION
The hearing focused on transparency and how much information should be shared to the public in order to ensure a fair trial. While this issue is being considered, Utah Fourth District Judge Tony Graf closed the first part of the hearing while they discussed what should and should not be made public. (Suddenly the name Jack Ruby popped into my head - jjs)
Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin Smirks During First In-Person Hearing
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Attorney General Josh Kaul won his first term on a manufactured rape kit-testing backlog scandal. Now he has the same problem and more.
Leftist Wisconsin AG Is Failing To Fix The Problem He Pounded His Opponent On
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Happy holidays, infidels.
European Christmas Goes on Lockdown
Hungary’s guarded borders stand out in a Europe where migrant-driven unrest is forcing Christmas markets to shutter under rising security fears.
Civilization Erasure, Christmas Markets, and Hungary
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Leavitt didn’t just answer questions—she schooled the press, hit media narratives with facts, and defended the administration with precision and force. It’s so nice to have someone honest and competent behind the podium again.
Karoline Leavitt Torches the Media in Epic Fashion
In both of these disputes, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court can uphold a key vehicle for every citizen to protect his freedom.
Two ‘Free Speech’ Cases Before SCOTUS Are Actually About Protecting All Constitutional Rights
It is incredibly difficult to find points of agreement with our political foes when they prefer to scream in our faces and call us “fascists.”
Leftists Choose Censorship Over Debate
The Right can’t win a fair media fight while Washington keeps conservative broadcasters capped at 39%—scrap the 1940s rule and let real competition decide.
Big Brother Is Holding Conservative Media Back

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Colorado’s aggressive emissions reductions risk higher energy bills and reduced affordability for working-class residents.
Climate Activists Are Pricing Coloradans Out Of Heating Their Homes
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Then they quoted one of Hitler’s most notorious speeches.
San Jose Students Form ‘Human Swastika’ on School Football Field
The event, 'Voices of Amherst,' is paid for by the administration and takes place in the school’s chapel
‘This Has Gone Way Too Far': Videos Show Bizarre Sexual Ceremony That Elite Amherst College Pushes All First Year Students To Attend (Even Fredo and Johnny Ola were seen vomiting - jjs)
Our children's futures—and America's. These homeschooled trailblazers are the assets of national security: Think Jefferson's diplomats negotiating peace, Lincoln's strategists holding the line, Roosevelt's visionaries expanding horizons.
Homeschoolers built this country—It’s time the law recognized their diplomas
The settlement immediately follows the university's suspension of a lecturer who pushed anti-Israel sentiment in the classroom
UC Berkeley Agrees To Rehire Israeli Professor, Pay $60,000 To Resolve Discrimination Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) over a collective bargaining agreement giving preferential treatment to non-white teachers and shelling out other benefits based on race.
Justice Department Sues Minneapolis Schools For Giving Preferential Treatment To Non-White Teachers
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
In related news, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary claims Biden junta withheld data on heart risk from Covid vaccines.
FDA Expands Probe Into COVID Vaccine Linked Deaths to Cover Adults
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The fix was in, the steal was real, and now it's time to unleash the strike force.
The Clinton Voter Fraud Machine Flooded Illegal Ballots for Decades
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Homan also confirmed that DHS will look into the entire Somali population.
Homan: DHS Investigating Bro-Fo Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud
Trump may have garbled the specifics, but he got the upshot of the story right. Omar’s family brought Elmi over from London in 2009 to try to extract him from a gay lifestyle, and that is the context in which the congresswoman tied the knot with him.
Yes, Bro-Fo Omar Married Her Brother
The vote represents a significant setback for Trump’s efforts to reshape congressional districts in Republican-controlled states ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Indiana Senate Blocks Trump-Backed Redistricting Plan.
POLITICS
With the 2026 midterms fast approaching, seven intense Democratic primary contests are taking shape across the country and highlighting divisions regarding the future of the party.
Seven Primaries That Could Tear Democrats Apart In 2026
“On the far left, there’s a growing bloc of disaffected activists who see politicians that alarm conservatives, like Mamdani, as not nearly radical enough simply because they operate inside electoral politics. For them, politics itself — and the Democrat Party in particular — looks like counter-insurgency.”
Some Of Mamdani’s Radical Base ‘Already Seething’ At His Decisions
Like McCarthy, Ryan, and Liz Cheney before her, Marjorie Taylor Greene is choosing ego over country, proving she’s MTG First, not America First—and risking the House for the Deep State’s applause.
From Firebrand to Veruca Salt: MTG’s Hissy Fit and the Blonde AOC’s Betrayal of MAGA
Republicans’ plan to push their preferred candidate, Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, into running for senate has apparently worked.
How Republicans Tricked Jasmine Crockett Into Running For Senate
He’ll be remembered either way. But there’s a huge difference between a Julius and an Augustus. (I prefer Augustus Pinochet to an Orange-man Julius - jjs)
What Kind of Caesar Will Trump Be?
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
Noa’s father received a “video sent to him, in which his daughter is seen begging for her life” as a 'Palestinian' doctor “injected air into her vein.”
Report: Gaza ‘Doctor’ Murdered Hostage Noa Marciano, 19, as She Begged For Mercy
How much more of a laughingstock does Guterres want the UN to become?
UN Official Reem Alsaem Claims ‘No Rapes’ on October 7 (With a name like Reem - jjs)
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
NATO nations are being called to increase defense spending and production ahead of a general war with the Russian Federation.
NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The unidentified ship was reportedly flying the flag of E-Swatini and was part of what Iran alleges is a massive trafficking scheme to steal Iranian oil and sell it abroad. The IRGC revealed the news on the same day that the Iranian government condemned the United States for staging a similar seizure of a ship accused of carrying illicit oil in the Caribbean following an appropriate warrant process. The U.S. government accused the seized ship in question of carrying sanctioned oil being used to profit the narco-regime governing Venezuela and its allies in Tehran.
Iran’s Terrorist IRGC Seizes Oil Tanker Day After U.S. Captures Alleged Oil Smuggling Vessel
Reuters is reporting — via anonymous sources — that the Trump administration says that this may be the first oil tanker it seizes, but it won't be the last: "Further direct interventions by the U.S. are expected in the coming weeks targeting ships carrying Venezuelan oil that may also have transported oil from other countries targeted by U.S. sanctions, such as Iran, according to the sources familiar with the matter who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue."
The U.S. Seized an Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela. So, What's Next?
It’s happening right now. And it may explain some of Trump’s perplexing foreign policy decisions.
The Global War You’ve Never Heard Of
The MAS Party ruled Bolivia for two decades, first under its original leader Evo Morales and later under Arce. The brief period between Morales and Arce in 2020 was marked by Morales attempting to unconstitutionally retain the presidency, allegedly committing widespread electoral fraud and being forced to flee the country. As his top MAS officials fled the country at the time as well, the highest-ranking person left in the chain of command was conservative Senator Jeanine Áñez, whom Arce later had imprisoned on dubious “coup” charges.
Bolivia Arrests Socialist Ex-President Luis Arce, Accused in $52 Million Corruption Scheme
What is now unfolding in France may soon drag the entire Eurozone into deep turmoil.
France’s Endless Nightmare: A Nation Incapable of Reform
Trump’s foreign-policy edge lies in blunt moral clarity, reshaping global power dynamics while warning adversaries that America is once again willing to defend its interests.
Trump’s America First Foreign Policy Gives Moral Clarity

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
A UN tribunal has been embedded within the DOJ. It threatens our troops. (one day when we God forbid ultimately will have a Democrat president, you can bet your ass that Hegseth and Trump will be indicted - jjs)
Abolish the War Crimes Act of 1996
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Four Republicans: Sens. Susan Collins, Josh Hawley, Lisa Murkowski, and Dan Sullivan voted with the Democrats, but the legislation needed 60 votes to proceed, as did the Republican bill, which was also blocked on a 51-48 vote.
Senate Rejects Extending Obamacare Subsidies
A new ad airing in the nation’s capital is calling on Republicans and President Donald Trump to fix the mess Democrats made with Obamacare by extending the expiring tax credits to help Trump and the GOP buy time to fix the program.
Exclusive: Conservative Group Airs Ad on How Trump Can Fix Broken Healthcare System Democrats Made
Recent losses for legalizers augur a sea change in pot policy.
Everyone Thinks Legal Weed is Inevitable. Everyone Is Wrong.
Free health care for Muslim migrants. Free death for Canadian taxpayers.
Canada’s Euthanasia Kills 96% White People
This strain appears to be a combination of Clade Ib (which causes more severe infections and is more readily spread) and Clade IIb (the one responsible for the “Pride Summer” global outbreak in 2022).
A New Monkeypox Strain Identified in England
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Using multiple solar observatories in space, scientists have now been able to map the approximate location of the outside edge of the Sun’s atmosphere, the point “where the speed of the outward solar wind becomes faster than the speed of magnetic waves.”
Scientists map the outside edge of the Sun’s atmosphere
Scientists doing new computer modeling of the known data now posit that Neptune and Uranus might not be as icy as previously believed and instead could be more like the inner terrestrial planets like Earth, much rockier in their interior.
Scientists posit that Neptune and Uranus might be rockier than previously theorized (But still no detectable Klingons on Uranus - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
We medically castrated and psychologically damaged children for an ideology that shifts depending on who is in office.
The ‘dead daughter or live son’ lie is dead—and so is the entire trans ideology
“What these radicals were doing was evil."
Texas Accuses ‘Radical’ Doctors Of Using Tax Dollars To Fund Secret Trans Procedures On Teenagers
The lawsuit is specifically filed against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics and accuses the organizations of pushing mutilating sex changes for minors without proper evidence proving safety and efficacy, in violation of consumer protection and racketeering laws.
Florida Sues Medical Organizations Pushing Sex Changes for Minors
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful. Such malicious remarks are unacceptable.”
Kids Toys Can Be Spying for China
HITHER & YON
After-action inspections found 263 bullet holes in his F9F-5 Panther. (Hat tip to commenter E.W. who says "JJ, this pilot's story is amazing. Perfect for a smart military blog!" agreed et voila! - jjs)
Navy pilot who took out 4 Soviet jets in covered-up mission may get Medal of Honor
Christian Toto: James L. Brooks is back to atone for his mediocre misfire 'How Do You Know'
Messy ‘Ella McCay’ Shows Us What’s We’re Missing

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1 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:21 AM (ExV1e)

2 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:21 AM (ExV1e)

3 Very gray morning, indeed.

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 07:23 AM (W7XSX)

4 Yonder Horde.

Gray... like the sky.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 07:23 AM (NwnyJ)

5 Grey-grey Sefton!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 07:24 AM (Vq1pX)

6 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 12, 2025 07:24 AM (0N4FZ)

7 I'm awake, but they just gave me a Tylenol and an oxycodone, so I may not be conscious too much longer 🤣🤣🤣 Will be seeing the surgical resident first, then Dr. Yopp will be by to see me around 8 or 9.

Apparently my liver is still intact, but I will be going home with an HAI pump. I will have to come up with a fun name for him - maybe call him "Fred". The medicine they will be putting in the pump is called FUDR - you KNOW we are going to be having fun with that acronym....

And now we get to start playing whack-a-mole with all of these pesky little tumors that didn't show up on the CT Scan or the MRI (we were told that it is not uncommon to find that once they go in).

The good news is that the pump is even MORE targeted than anything I have had before, and they can use much more medication without the worry of killing "healthy" tissue in the process.

I think the oxycodone may be kicking in now - see you guys on the other side...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 12, 2025 07:25 AM (U5cTn)

8 Another grayt Morning Report!

Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

9 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 07:28 AM (9ipOP)

10
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 07:28 AM (tljrc)

11 TGIF

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

12 That's funny, Teresa never wants a second oxy at home.
/wonders to self

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 07:30 AM (9ipOP)

13 There's something wrong with Illinois

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 07:33 AM (ZxPkt)

14 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Last day of classes for me. Next week is Finals, but my students don't have a final exam. Just a project.

Once I get my grading done, I'm officially done with the course.

The weird schedule this semester means my grades are due on Christmas Eve Eve (Dec 23).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 07:34 AM (ESVrU)

15 At some point, Trump needs to explain why we’re capturing drug boats in the Pacific and blowing them up in the Caribbean. I have no objection to either option. But, it is a little confusing.

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 12, 2025 07:35 AM (URO9T)

16 From Firebrand to Veruca Salt: MTG’s Hissy Fit and the Blonde AOC’s Betrayal of MAGA

It's all and always a lie. She was a MAGA firebrand because she needed to get elected and stay elected long enough to get her golden lifetime pension. That secured, she's now free to admit who/what she is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

17 In a sane world, when the ussr collapsed, former commie bigwigs should have been prosecuted Nuremberg style for spreading weapons of war across the globe, especially in Africa and Asia, in communist wars of aggression and genocide from 1945 till 1990.

Posted by: Zombie Robert Houghwout Jackson at December 12, 2025 07:35 AM (YyIMQ)

18

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 12, 2025 07:36 AM (DDJSl)

19 FBI Director Kash Patel added in a statement to Breitbart News. “The defendant in this case allegedly used their position in Black Lives really dontMatter to steal donor money and enrich their own lifestyle. No one is above the law and we will continue to work with our Department of Justice partners to pursue every last fraudster responsible for this conduct.”

3x more maternal deaths
4x more infant deaths
50% obesity
no child can read in Chicago

Call me when black people get worked up about these matters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

20 We are almost a year into PDT's term and though I am pleased with the progress so far I am concerned that things will get bogged down in year two and if so the last two will be hell. I hope PDT will take the advice of Josey Wales in a life or death situation.

"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is"

Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

21 > The World Must Stop Ignoring What Iranians Already Know: The Regime Is on the Brink

Isn't it pretty to think so....
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Not really. Trump's policy is "bring down the ayatollahs, install a stable regime of some type, profit." That's a dandy plan, on the face of it.

But America's policy in general is to prop up Iran as a counterbalance to Israel and Saudia Arabia, and keep the Middle East permanently unstable. Our government don't want anyone "winning" over there.

Trump will only be around for a few years, max. If he succeeds in toppling the ayatollahs, the IC will install some unstable gang of psychotic Muslims to replace them at the nearest opportunity and restore the status quo ante, and whoever it is will be as bad or worse than these whacko ragheads.

It's probably not even possible for Iran to have any kind of nonpsychotic government at this point, but as long as our foreign services perceive a belligerent Iran as desirable, it's definitely not.

Posted by: be careful what you wish for at December 12, 2025 07:40 AM (W23tn)

22 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

23 40.6% of Somalis settlers in Minnesota don’t even have a high school degree. 40% of Somalis have an income at the 200% federal poverty line. 40% of Somali settlers in Minnesota earn below $35,000. Their median household income is $43,600.

Walz and Sur were in on this from Day 1.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

24 This decision exposes the deep political denial embedded in France’s leadership: they continue living at the expense of future generations, consuming economic substance that no longer exists. France has become fundamentally incapable of reform and is drifting straight into a severe fiscal crisis.

Governments in the west, not just France, are like this because the citizenry of the west is filled with people who want everything, they want it now, and they want someone else to pay for it and so they elect politicians who promise them that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

25 It's one of the grand comedies of history that the Nation of Islam and the Muslim Brothers both seem to have gotten their names switched with each other at birth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 07:42 AM (Vq1pX)

26 International Law and US Navy Regulations are clear on the treatment of Pirates (those of no nation states). They can be killed. And should be.

The first 35 years of the US Navy's history was fighting against pirates. We rid to Caribbean of them by 1830. Part of history that is never taught.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

27 The first 35 years of the US Navy's history was fighting against pirates. We rid to Caribbean of them by 1830. Part of history that is never taught.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

Rule #1: Never mess with America's boats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 07:45 AM (Vq1pX)

28 "There Is Nothing like A Dame"

Old & Busted: Dead-Name.
New Hotness: Dead-Dame.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:45 AM (25a1J)

29 Judges Jim Todd, Arron Holt, Robin Kimbrough-Hayes, Lynda Jones, Melissa Blackburn, and Rachel Bell.

“Every judge and prosecutor who let him off the hook was a DEMOCRAT.

There is not a Democrat Judge that would NOT throw a court case against your raped and dead wife or daughter to help an illegal.

The Great Replacement.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

30 “ Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also? Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”

Isaiah 7:13-14

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2025 07:46 AM (LLQU7)

31 "A crip gut hermeneutic towards a unified shit pebble theory"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 07:46 AM (Vq1pX)

32 At some point, Trump needs to explain why we’re capturing drug boats in the Pacific and blowing them up in the Caribbean. I have no objection to either option. But, it is a little confusing.

Ayn Rand was right.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 12, 2025 07:35 AM (URO9T)

Could be that the intelligence is more rock solid in the Caribbean. If they have the potential for some doubt in the Pacific, I can see the point of capture rather than destruction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)

33 Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.

Prayers ascending for you! With urgency.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

34 6 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

Your targeted greeting leaves me flat!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie, D-9 at December 12, 2025 07:47 AM (oftw2)

35 If Tyler Robinson is indeed convicted of murder, he deserves a firing squad for that smirking arrogance.

We need to cleanse the human gene pool of one murderous, lowlife scumbag at-a-time.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 07:47 AM (1zOXE)

36 Trump has had a spectacular first year, though I think Musk's idea of some public executions should merit more consideration.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 07:48 AM (6C06J)

37 In a sane world, when the ussr collapsed, former commie bigwigs should have been prosecuted Nuremberg style for spreading weapons of war across the globe, especially in Africa and Asia, in communist wars of aggression and genocide from 1945 till 1990.
Posted by: Zombie Robert Houghwout Jackson at December 12, 2025 07:35 AM (YyIMQ)

In a sane world, the call to prosecute the former commie bigwigs might have resulted in them saying fuck it and going out with a bang.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

38 I was going to bust on the chinese troll but there's really just nothing there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 07:49 AM (9ipOP)

39 ASS may need to revisit his English translation tool.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 07:50 AM (6C06J)

40 SICK: Rep. Julie Johnson says National Guard members were shot in the head in a terror attack "because people are frustrated and they are channeling that frustration."

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Well, I guess it's OK then.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 07:50 AM (L/fGl)

41 Hillary Clinton

I would like to invite you to a scenic tour of the Caribbean from Venezuela to Aruba. We will have a boat for you that is so fast, your hair will stream behind you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

42 >>Rule #1: Never mess with America's boats.

Unless it's our own boats shooting down our own planes about to trap on our own carrier, right?

Posted by: USS Gettysburg CIC at December 12, 2025 07:51 AM (Y1sOo)

43 Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 07:49 AM (9ipOP)

It's on an American cell system.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 07:51 AM (n9ltV)

44 Here's a good way to refer to good old Marge Green: Empty Green.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 12, 2025 07:51 AM (2Ez/1)

45 Rule #1: Never mess with America's boats.

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Unless it's our own boats shooting down our own planes about to trap on our own carrier, right?

Posted by: USS Gettysburg CIC at December 12, 2025 07:51 AM (Y1sOo)

Planes =/= boats. Man, y'all really need some retraining.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

46 So about that oil tanker we grabbed: is the oil ours now? Do we get to keep the boat?

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 07:52 AM (ZxPkt)

47 ... will once again be ripped apart by the next incarnation of Obama on radioactive steroids.

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Jasmine Ratchet 2028 -- Kill Whitey For Good This Time, Y'All!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:53 AM (25a1J)

48 San Franpsycho

Good morning. Is retirement still fun?

I look at governance in CA, and shake my head. Hope you can avoid the dire conditions in your new Festung.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

49 It's on an American cell system.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 07:51 AM (n9ltV)
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Inside the wire huh? If that troll understands English I'll do 20 pullups.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 07:54 AM (9ipOP)

50 So they've seized the Skipper. What about the other six castaways?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 12, 2025 07:55 AM (2Ez/1)

51 I used to have a different nic

I bet the Naval Aviators give the USS Gettysburg (CG-64) a lot of side eye. It is part of the Caribbean task force.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

52 May MTG waddle off to Mike Ponce, Liz Cheney Land of being irrelevant and hated universally across the board. Quitting a two-year term in the middle of it is an unpardonable sin.

Posted by: Go Squeeze A Breeze! at December 12, 2025 07:56 AM (oftw2)

53 Salty, my best hope is watching the Stalinists, Maoists, and Sandinistas tear each other apart over Nancy Pelosi's seat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 07:56 AM (9ipOP)

54 ICE Crackdown in Dem City Captures Rapists, Smugglers, Child Abusers.

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AKA The Democrat-Communist Base.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 07:56 AM (25a1J)

55 Don Black

Trump said we are keeping the oil. We have a refinery that can handle Venezuelan crude oil.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

56 I bet the Naval Aviators give the USS Gettysburg (CG-64) a lot of side eye. It is part of the Caribbean task force.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

Flyboys give everyone side eye. They all think they're Tom Cruise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

57 JUST IN: Scott Jennings demands weak Republicans WAKE UP after Indiana redistricting fails

“Compared to Democrats, Republicans are rookies when it comes to gerrymandering — see: Indiana. But the party better WAKE UP to the absolute ruthlessness that awaits if Democrats regain control!”

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Kamikaze Republicans.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 07:57 AM (L/fGl)

58 San Franpsycho

Do you need some more popcorn? We grow some around here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

59 "Quitting a two-year term in the middle of it is an unpardonable sin.
Posted by: Go Squeeze A Breeze!"

Crusty flaky biscuits have more integrity.

Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

60 ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Is A Feudal Relic That Has No Place In America
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It is tiresome to see how deeply the Leftist mis-definition of feudalism has sunk into our culture. That's historical BS.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 07:58 AM (s0JqF)

61 The GOP is well, well aware of the ruthlessness of the DNC when they inevitably seize power again.

Why the hell else do you think they're working so hard to placate them now?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 07:59 AM (Vq1pX)

62 "Trump said we are keeping the oil. We have a refinery that can handle Venezuelan crude oil.
Posted by: NaCly Dog"

THAT is my President!

Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

63 May MTG waddle off to Mike Ponce, Liz Cheney Land of being irrelevant and hated universally across the board. Quitting a two-year term in the middle of it is an unpardonable sin.
Posted by: Go Squeeze A Breeze!

Make it so.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 07:59 AM (L/fGl)

64 JUST IN: Scott Jennings demands weak Republicans WAKE UP after Indiana redistricting fails

“Compared to Democrats, Republicans are rookies when it comes to gerrymandering — see: Indiana. But the party better WAKE UP to the absolute ruthlessness that awaits if Democrats regain control!”

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Kamikaze Republicans.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 07:57 AM (L/fGl)

Democrats with a 'R' designator. Their seats are safe and they have no interest in advancing a MAGA agenda. Same as it ever was.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

65 Have I mentioned how happy I am not to own real estate or have a business or be employed in NYC?

Time is short.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 07:59 AM (9ipOP)

66 "ICE Crackdown in Dem City Captures Rapists, Smugglers, Child Abusers."
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And Methodists.

Posted by: Obligatory Blazing Saddles reference at December 12, 2025 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

67 A potential difference between narco-terrorist go-fast boats in the Pacific vs those in the Caribbean is that those on the west coast stop when ordered to do so.

Those in the Caribbean don't.

Two different cartels. Two different sets of orders and/or discipline.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 07:59 AM (NwnyJ)

68 Do you need some more popcorn? We grow some around here.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

Do you know it's ripe when the cellophane wrappers seal up over their microwave pouches?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

69 Florida Sues Medical Organizations Pushing Sex Changes for Minors
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It's a start. But what we really need are the personal injury suits by the victims. The lawyers should be over that like flies on a turd.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 08:00 AM (s0JqF)

70 I made a bet yesterday with a guy from Jersey. I told him that after four years of their new AWFL governor, NJ will be worse off economically, more restrictive in their laws that chip away at the Bill of Rights, and their education system will be among the worse in the nation.

This morning Newark schools, some of the worst in the entire country, announced they are installing a spa for the kids. lol

Bread and circuses. One party rule produces one thing; anarchy.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2025 08:01 AM (LLQU7)

71 At this rate, Somalis will outnumber African-Americans in Minnesota.

Somalis are Replacing Black People in Minnesota

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Imma need to see one of Kommie-la's Venn Diagrams here ...

And I just got a great idea for a new Netflix series:

"Somalis are the New Blacks."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 08:01 AM (25a1J)

72 Flyboys give everyone side eye. They all think they're Tom Cruise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)
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They're all short?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 08:01 AM (9ipOP)

73 I used to have a different nic

Naval Aviators think Tom Cruise wishes he was them. The flight deck qualified aviators collectively have the healthiest egos on the planet. More than brain surgeons or movie stars.

Got stories.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

74 Jasmine Crockett tells Joy Reid that she wants to be in the Senate to impose 'ethical guidelines’ on Supreme Court Justices:

“It is literally that we just are bringing them in and we are going to like have a little conversation with the Justices."

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Well, Jazzy knows ethics.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:02 AM (L/fGl)

75 "Quitting a two-year term in the middle of it is an unpardonable sin.
Posted by: Go Squeeze A Breeze!"

They need to get rid of Congressional pensions and go to a 401k style system. Ditto for the judiciary. Make it so that they can't just hang out for a few years, manage their incredible investments so that they millions, and pocket a lifetime obligation from the American people to pay their asses.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:02 AM (ExV1e)

76 "Trump said we are keeping the oil. We have a refinery that can handle Venezuelan crude oil."

For those of you keeping score at home, I'm not sick of winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 12, 2025 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)

77 Good morning J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 12, 2025 08:02 AM (fLcJT)

78 I get that Indiana Republicans need to get the results of their fecklessness good and hard, but why do they get to drag the rest of us along with them? This sort of petulance is inexcusable.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 08:03 AM (pvp5h)

79 Why the hell else do you think they're working so hard to placate them now?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 07:59 AM (Vq1pX)

Cuz they're on the same team?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

80 They're all short?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Being tall is a handicap in fighter jets and submarines.

Posted by: Ow, My Head! at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (oftw2)

81 Now the judges demand extra personal security.

Rep. Andy Ogles Exposes Judges Who Released Somali Migrant Suspect For Brutal Rape of Woman Who Later Died

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I hear CECOT in El Salvador is nice this time of year.

Domestic Terrorists by any other name would smell as foul ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (25a1J)

82 War on terror? No, it’s WAR on terrorists.

Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (o2ZRX)

83 Maybe use the seized oil to replenish the strategic reserve?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (gm9Sb)

84 Cuz they're on the same team?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

An interesting question...

Are the Globetrotters and the Generals the same "team"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (Vq1pX)

85 Islamocommunist Saikat Chakrabati is going up against Pedomarxist Scott Weiner.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (9ipOP)

86 Democrat Congressman Calls Assassination of National Guardsman an ‘Unfortunate Accident’

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What, "Some People Did Some Things" wasn't available?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 08:05 AM (25a1J)

87 It's a start. But what we really need are the personal injury suits by the victims. The lawyers should be over that like flies on a turd.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 08:00 AM (s0JqF)

Given that the procedures were authorized by the parents, I wonder if that would work. The doctor performed the modification requested.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

88 They're all short?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

What I learned the other day. Famous and feared drug lord El Chapo's nickname means "Shorty."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:06 AM (L/fGl)

89 Good morning, everyone! I have the day off on account of the company party going on tonight. Car has been fueled, coffee and donut are being consumed and life is getting better.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 12, 2025 08:06 AM (7xrfc)

90 Kinda stumped why a federal judge somewhere hasn't ordered Trump to give the oil tanker back

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:06 AM (ZxPkt)

91 REPORTER: It’s tremendous, I mean. And according to the secretary, Christine Noah, DHS, you said nearly 50% of the visas are fraudulent in this community. I mean, that would that would mean that half the Somali refugees are here in some way, illegally. What’s going to happen? Is something that actually going to happen? Are there going to be people stripped of their visas, deported?

A M F

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

92 Anonosaurus Wrecks

"Jasmine Crockett tells Joy Reid that she wants to be in the Senate to to impose 'ethical guidelines’ on Supreme Court Justices."

She does not understand the beauty of the Constitution. She is swimming in a separate lane of a seperate branch of government.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

93 Yes, Bro-Fo Omar Married Her Brother
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It's not easy to win the title of the most repulsive person in DC, but she did. Have to give her credit for that.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 08:08 AM (s0JqF)

94 80 We had a Captain, A4E pilot that was suddenly grounded after a safety blurb came in. Too tall. Something to do with the egress system and feet getting hung up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 08:08 AM (gm9Sb)

95 > She does not understand the beauty of the Constitution. She is swimming in a separate lane of a seperate branch of government.
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I was reliably told by Mike Obama that blacks can't swim because whites make them straighten their hair.

Or something...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 08:08 AM (NwnyJ)

96 Today I will gently inquire whether Mrs. F. plans to break out her deep fryer for Chanukah.

And if necessary to begin the Great Pestering.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 08:08 AM (9ipOP)

97 Being tall is a handicap in fighter jets and submarines.
Posted by: Ow, My Head! at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (oftw2)

We had a guy on my boat who was 6'3". Indian (feather) nicknamed Chief (for obvious reasons). Cool dude. I got my damage control checkout from him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

98 Morning, all,

What about this new promise of checks in the new year? Adding to inflation, no doubt, but on a personal level it'd be welcome.

Will this sudden influx of oil decrease our gas prices a bit more?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 08:08 AM (wzUl9)

99 Good morning all

Indiana republicans are apparently just like your average republican office holder all across the country… feckless, worthless and dickless

Like the political world’s three stooges…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 08:09 AM (/iXAp)

100 Don Black

Admiralty Law is a separate legal entity. Very specialized. Trump is allowed to do this under those laws.

It was not under a Flag of Convenience.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

101 What the Left are really doing, as usual, is projecting what they plan to do, or have already done. Which is have the military do their illegal bidding.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 08:09 AM (/+FOE)

102 The Constitution defines three, not four, branches of government.

Shutting Down the 'Fourth Branch'

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[Insert Picard facepalm here]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 08:10 AM (25a1J)

103 Yup. This is real.

The University of Minnesota has launched a program to end the "Whiteness Pandemic".

"We wanted to better understand the culture of Whiteness and support parents to challenge it"

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Maybe they can develop a vaccine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:10 AM (L/fGl)

104 Being tall is a handicap in fighter jets and submarines.
Posted by: Ow, My Head! at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (oftw2)

So that’s why extremely short guy Tom Cruise was cast as Maverick in Top Gun.. now it all makes sense

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 08:10 AM (/iXAp)

105 Alright, the Bustelo is brewing and the croissant is warming in the oven

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)

106 Have a great day, everyone.

May you gambol around in sun-drenched environs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2025 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

107 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2025 08:12 AM (QVuuq)

108 Exclusive: Conservative Group Airs Ad on How Trump Can Fix Broken Healthcare System Democrats Made
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That ad ends with "Extend the tax credits", or, in other words, "Fix nothing. More of the same."

It is amazing, give how rotten the Ds are, how good the Rs are at pushing me never to vote for their lying asses again.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 08:12 AM (s0JqF)

109 Cutting oil from Venezuela would raise global oil prices.”

Not necessarily- the Saudis could easily make up the shortfall by turning a few valves. That, which people tend to forget, is one of the most important reasons to maintain very good relations with MBS.

The one country that would be hurt more than any other would be China, which has been profiting immensely from buying Venezuelan crude at a steep discount and reselling it at much higher, unsanctioned prices.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:12 AM (jr4TK)

110 Good morning Horde , thx JJ
Teresa , good luck and God bless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 08:12 AM (D+mpw)

111 If there's any more tanker seizures in the future PDT or Pete should have VFA 103 do a fly by. Jolly Rogers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 12, 2025 08:12 AM (gm9Sb)

112 There's something about ejection seats, the canopy and tall pilots that sounds... wrong.

G-forces too.

Most every pilot I've known was less than 6' My best friend flew F-16's for a while. Instructor pilot. There is something about pilot size that "matters."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 08:12 AM (NwnyJ)

113 Salty you seem to be up on the laws of the sea

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:13 AM (ZxPkt)

114 An interesting question...

Are the Globetrotters and the Generals the same "team"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (Vq1pX)

Obviously.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

115 Scott Anderson was a Blue Angel back in the early 80s when I met him. He's 6' 4" and flew the A-4 for the Blues.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 12, 2025 08:13 AM (Y1sOo)

116 The event, 'Voices of Amherst,' is paid for by the administration and takes place in the school’s chapel

And I'm sure a more conservative one that doesn't sexualize everything on campus is available, right? Right? Why are you laughing?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 12, 2025 08:14 AM (7xrfc)

117
"What’s going to happen? Is something that actually going to happen? Are there going to be people stripped of their visas, deported?"

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Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)

118 Bustelo is brewing and the croissant is warming in the oven"

Is the chair against the wall, or does John have a long mustache?

Posted by: man at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (XuXeR)

119 I wonder how many R's will quit their seat this year.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (/+FOE)

120 And I gotta ask, What in the name of Colonel Sanders is the Flag of E-Swatini?? Is it like the Flag of E-Macaroni? Is their President named Chef Boy R. Dee?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (jr4TK)

121 I’m still marveling at the epic stupidity of Sherrone Moore… fall ass backwards into one of the most coveted coaching jobs in the country (formerly an assistant with ZERO head coaching experience), now on contract for $5M a year…. But he lets the little general run the show, lose job destroy family and then the icing on the cake lose his mind and end up in prison. All for a… Waffle House 7 if I’m being generous… Saw her photo not particularly impressed. Wow the little Johnson can be epically stupid when allowed to take charge….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (/iXAp)

122 Being tall is a handicap in fighter jets and submarines.
Posted by: Ow, My Head! at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (oftw2)

So that’s why extremely short guy Tom Cruise was cast as Maverick in Top Gun.. now it all makes sense
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

That's why Goose broke his neck ejecting. His head was already in the canopy before it could clear the plane. Goose was 6'2".

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (QVuuq)

123 Not only did Ilhan marry her brother, the marriage was consummated. Ew.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (cxFcK)

124 I love the story about Mamdani. The silly little bastards of the left never realize they can't be pure enough. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc used the BS of the left to take power and stomped on anyone who they thought opposed them.
Does the Democratic Socialists = Mensheviks? One can only hope

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (D+mpw)

125 " is the oil ours now? Do we get to keep the boat?"

Yes to both.

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 08:16 AM (W7XSX)

126 Chicago mayor attends event where black men dress up, gets accused of acting white

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Once you go crazy, you never go back.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:16 AM (L/fGl)

127 Climate Activists Are Pricing Coloradans Out Of Heating Their Homes

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* The six New England states have entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 08:16 AM (25a1J)

128 Noa’s father received a “video sent to him, in which his daughter is seen begging for her life” as a 'Palestinian' doctor “injected air into her vein.”[/]
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American students need to be made to face this evil close up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 08:16 AM (rlcRU)

129 Are the Globetrotters and the Generals the same "team"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 08:04 AM (Vq1pX)

Obviously.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

I can tell you this, they both pick up their paychecks at the same office.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:17 AM (jr4TK)

130 *May you gambol around in sun-drenched environs.*

Could lead to dancing.

Posted by: The church lady at December 12, 2025 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

131 Embarrelling

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 08:17 AM (rlcRU)

132 TJM is wearing the the most unusual suit I've ever seen in his new YT video.

I think it's covered in Christmas Trees, lights, and Santas.

And, he's got a bow-tie on.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:17 AM (6ydKt)

133 123 Not only did Ilhan marry her brother, the marriage was consummated. Ew.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (cxFcK)

Does it count if she used a strap-on?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:18 AM (jr4TK)

134 Canada’s Euthanasia Kills 96% White People

Medical Killings is the 5th leading cause of death in Canada.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

135 So, can we refer to Ilhan as a "brother f**ker?"

Posted by: Inquiring minds at December 12, 2025 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

136 The event, 'Voices of Amherst,' is paid for by the administration and takes place in the school’s chapel

‘This Has Gone Way Too Far': Videos Show Bizarre Sexual Ceremony That Elite Amherst College Pushes All First Year Students To Attend (Even Fredo and Johnny Ola were seen vomiting - jjs)

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Academe Delenda Est.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 12, 2025 08:20 AM (25a1J)

137 > I’m still marveling at the epic stupidity of Sherrone Moore… fall ass backwards into one of the most coveted coaching jobs in the country (formerly an assistant with ZERO head coaching experience), now on contract for $5M a year…. But he lets the little general run the show, lose job destroy family and then the icing on the cake lose his mind and end up in prison. All for a… Waffle House 7 if I’m being generous… Saw her photo not particularly impressed. Wow the little Johnson can be epically stupid when allowed to take charge….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (/iXAp)

He learned absolutely nothing from Mel Tucker's crash and burn.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 12, 2025 08:20 AM (rJ48h)

138 I’m still marveling at the epic stupidity of Sherrone Moore…

Sherrone Moore is the product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at December 12, 2025 08:20 AM (YyIMQ)

139 All for a… Waffle House 7 if I’m being generous… Saw her photo not particularly impressed. Wow the little Johnson can be epically stupid when allowed to take charge….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (/iXAp)

Undercover Brother knew:

BLACK MAN’S KRYPTONITE!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:20 AM (jr4TK)

140 I can tell you this, they both pick up their paychecks at the same office.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Man, you must be old!

Posted by: Heading To Bank To Cash Mine at December 12, 2025 08:20 AM (oftw2)

141 can we refer to Ilhan as a "brother f**ker?""

It seems there are hollers in WV where families have less convoluted "trees"....yikes.

Posted by: man at December 12, 2025 08:21 AM (XuXeR)

142 Klingons on Uranus, aka Dingleberries. Not to be confused with Huckleberries.

Posted by: Doc Holiday at December 12, 2025 08:21 AM (cHOHf)

143 So, no story about the state of Washington being under an atmospheric river, completely drownded?

Posted by: Mel's Hole Filled Up! at December 12, 2025 08:22 AM (oftw2)

144 Exclusive: Conservative Group Airs Ad on How Trump Can Fix Broken Healthcare System Democrats Made
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That ad ends with "Extend the tax credits", or, in other words, "Fix nothing. More of the same."
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That Tar Baby . . . always an (R) mission to 'fix' stupid.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 12, 2025 08:22 AM (lL6v/)

145 Randolph Duke "

Bite me.

/Mortimer

Posted by: man at December 12, 2025 08:22 AM (XuXeR)

146 I don't understand Minnesota anymore. The state has sunk to a new low. The leftist are in total control of a state that once had some sanity.

Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 08:23 AM (G1OIb)

147 Scientists posit that Neptune and Uranus might be rockier than previously theorized

Dammit Baby Ruth

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

148 In a sane world, when the ussr collapsed, former commie bigwigs should have been prosecuted Nuremberg style
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They didn’t even prosecute Nazis “Nuremburg style”, they imported them wholesale to the USA after the war. While the rocket scientists are fairly well known the “paperclip” program encompassed chemical warfare and propaganda specialists, among others, by the thousands.

The great fiction of course was that the Soviets were ever our “Allies”. So the Communists and saboteurs were allowed to set up shop here prior to the war, and the Nazis after the war. They were all embedded like ticks.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:23 AM (04lxq)

149 > can we refer to Ilhan as a "brother f**ker?""

It seems there are hollers in WV where families have less convoluted "trees"....yikes.
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At least in WV they go for cousins... not, you know, their own brother or sister. Way more respectable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 08:23 AM (NwnyJ)

150 Hey you know some family trees are like those decorative ficuses they train up to be all braided up like.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 08:24 AM (Vq1pX)

151 New Studies Find Dramatic Rise in Mortality for “Trans-Women" Who Use Cross Sex Hormones

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Whatever happened to that first do no harm thing?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:24 AM (L/fGl)

152 Just make families Corporations for Medical Expenses at Tax Time.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

153 132 TJM is wearing the the most unusual suit I've ever seen in his new YT video.

I think it's covered in Christmas Trees, lights, and Santas.

And, he's got a bow-tie on.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:17 AM (6ydKt)

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I am a fancy gentleman.

Posted by: TJM's phone at December 12, 2025 08:24 AM (sl6Z3)

154 BLACK MAN’S KRYPTONITE!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo

White She-Devil did nothing wrong.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (7xrfc)

155 Amherst College was founded over two centuries ago to prepare young Christian men for the ministry. Today, however, the prestigious college has become a hotbed of administratively sanctioned sex performances and "sexual skills" programs, with a focus on "queer" and transgender students and on free-sex practices such as polyamory. The graphic nature of school-sanctioned sex events has made many current Amherst students deeply uncomfortable, according to students who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
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Orwell predicted all of this, but the reality is almost unbelievably degrading

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (UjVYr)

156 3 rings, 3 branches.

Posted by: The Wranglin' Bros. at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (PTJlB)

157 Randolph Duke "

Bite me.

/Mortimer
Posted by: man at December 12, 2025 08:22 AM (XuXeR)

You lost the bet, pay up… one dollar

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (/iXAp)

158 Omar’s family tree is a wreath.

Posted by: RetSgtRN at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (vuVfC)

159 oh mommy
I forgot how good a warm croissant is

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (ZxPkt)

160 132 TJM is wearing the the most unusual suit I've ever seen in his new YT video.

I think it's covered in Christmas Trees, lights, and Santas.

And, he's got a bow-tie on.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Yes, I started watching, but paused. Going to have to see it in two-minute increments. It's too much to take in at once. Like seeing Hoover Dam for the first time.

Posted by: Ed Norton at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (oftw2)

161 Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota?

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (vFG9F)

162 151 New Studies Find Dramatic Rise in Mortality for “Trans-Women" Who Use Cross Sex Hormones

I'm guessing suicide is the main culprit?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (7xrfc)

163 151 New Studies Find Dramatic Rise in Mortality for “Trans-Women" Who Use Cross Sex Hormones

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Whatever happened to that first do no harm thing?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:24 AM (L/fGl)

My dad had prostate cancer and one injection he got was NOT to be touches by women of childbearing age.
They use the same thing in chillrens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

164 those decorative ficuses"

Decorated Harvey Weinstein style?

Posted by: man at December 12, 2025 08:26 AM (XuXeR)

165 160
Yes, I started watching, but paused. Going to have to see it in two-minute increments. It's too much to take in at once. Like seeing Hoover Dam for the first time.
Posted by: Ed Norton at December 12, 2025 08:25 AM (oftw2)

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It lights up, too. But I forgot to turn it on. Maybe next year.

Posted by: TJM's phone at December 12, 2025 08:26 AM (sl6Z3)

166 Sherrone Moore - threatens suicide, loses job in epic shitshow
Wes Moore - fabricated his resume and expertise and is bordering on a shitshow
Clement Moore - wrote A Visit from St Nicholas. Not a shitshow

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 08:26 AM (D+mpw)

167 The ‘dead daughter or live son’ lie is dead—and so is the entire trans ideology

It's still alive and well, maybe it's been tamped down a little bit, but it's still being pushed in blue cities, and blue states.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

168 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

169 I am a fancy gentleman.
Posted by: TJM's phone

And I was called a "dandy".

Posted by: Beau Brummell at December 12, 2025 08:27 AM (oftw2)

170 In contrast, the physiological risks of these interventions – especially bone density loss, infertility, cardiovascular and metabolic complications, and sexual dysfunction – were supported by moderate to high certainty evidence because these effects are well-established in endocrinology and basic physiology.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 08:27 AM (gbOdA)

171 167 The ‘dead daughter or live son’ lie is dead—and so is the entire trans ideology

It's still alive and well, maybe it's been tamped down a little bit, but it's still being pushed in blue cities, and blue states.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

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The future belongs to those who show up.

Conservatives are having families. Progressives are cutting the dicks off the only kids they have.

Posted by: TJM's phone at December 12, 2025 08:28 AM (sl6Z3)

172 Today is National Gingerbread House Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

173 And I gotta ask, What in the name of Colonel Sanders is the Flag of E-Swatini?? Is it like the Flag of E-Macaroni? Is their President named Chef Boy R. Dee?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (jr4TK)

Their patriotic song is "Rule Rotini".

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2025 08:31 AM (wVcYX)

174 Will this sudden influx of oil decrease our gas prices a bit more?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 08:08 AM (wzUl9)

Gas prices in Austin just did their periodic 50 cents per gallon jump in price. It's irritating. It'll slowly drop over the next few weeks and then... bam... up 50 cents.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

175 Sickened by the attack on Noem from some immigrant scumbag democrat who can barely speak English. She was way too well-mannered in her responses. We're long past the point of diminishing returns in being reasonable and patient with these savages. Go native on them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 08:32 AM (VnsnO)

176 >I am a fancy gentleman.
Posted by: TJM's phone
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would you call yourself a toff, or a swell?

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:32 AM (ZxPkt)

177 128 American students need to be made to face this evil close up.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 08:16 AM (rlcRU)

You realize that'd just celebrate it, then start doing TikTok dances, right?

They're fully brainwashed.

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 08:32 AM (UnA8+)

178 Indiana republicans are apparently just like your average republican office holder all across the country… feckless, worthless and dickless

Try malicious, duplicitous, and dickless.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

179 A dedicated follower of fashion?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 08:32 AM (Vq1pX)

180 "Today is National Gingerbread House Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

I went to four places yesterday looking for National Gingerbread House Day cards. I had to make my own out of old pizza boxes.

Posted by: fd at December 12, 2025 08:33 AM (vFG9F)

181 172 Today is National Gingerbread House Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Ironic. Mary Ann was a great cook/baker.

Ginger was just a lovely ornament.

Posted by: Soaking In Lagoon at December 12, 2025 08:33 AM (oftw2)

182 It's also...
National Ambrosia Day and
National Poinsettia Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

183 David Strom: They Think Their Voters Are Idiots

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And they're right!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:34 AM (L/fGl)

184 Full colostomy bag >> GOP

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 08:34 AM (abIsI)

185 >Sickened by the attack on Noem from some immigrant scumbag democrat who can barely speak English.
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I read about that shitshow
The Congress of the United States is a wretched hive of scum and villainy

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:34 AM (ZxPkt)

186 > Conservatives are having families. Progressives are cutting the dicks off the only kids they have.
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The entirety of the trans movement is slowly, but irreversibly suiciding themselves into extinction.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 08:35 AM (NwnyJ)

187 167 The ‘dead daughter or live son’ lie is dead—and so is the entire trans ideology

In an ideal world, the parent would respond with "You are wrong and I reject your choice. If you must recommend hormones for my DAUGHTER, prescribe estrogen or find me someone who will."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 12, 2025 08:35 AM (7xrfc)

188 And I gotta ask, What in the name of Colonel Sanders is the Flag of E-Swatini?? Is it like the Flag of E-Macaroni? Is their President named Chef Boy R. Dee?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (jr4TK)

Their patriotic song is "Rule Rotini".
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2025 08:31 AM (wVcYX)
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I like the chorus, "Penne! Penne! Penne!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 08:35 AM (GCbmd)

189 Exclusive: Conservative Group Airs Ad on How Trump Can Fix Broken Healthcare System Democrats Made
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That ad ends with "Extend the tax credits", or, in other words, "Fix nothing. More of the same."

It is amazing, give how rotten the Ds are, how good the Rs are at pushing me never to vote for their lying asses again.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 12, 2025 08:12 AM (s0JqF)

Extend the tax credits to give us time to craft a better solution (which we don't have lying around already for some reason) so we can bring THAT to a vote (which won't pass) so that Democrats won't say bad things about us (freeing them to say bad things about other issues).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

190 Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota?

Minnesooda is what happens when financially well off and prosperous guilt ridden, water walking, do gooder white liberals vote democrat thinking they are helping the poors and giving their little brown and black pets a hand up. Until their little pets bite the lily white liberal hands that fed them.

Posted by: Zombie Joe Kapp at December 12, 2025 08:35 AM (YyIMQ)

191 Well, it's that time of the semi-decade again.

Yep.

Cologuard wants their box back.

Lucky UPS store workers and customers.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2025 08:35 AM (wVcYX)

192 >Ironic. Mary Ann was a great cook/baker.

Ginger was just a lovely ornament.

Posted by: Soaking In Lagoon
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I'll take Ginger. I can learn to cook.

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:36 AM (ZxPkt)

193 181 172 Today is National Gingerbread House Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Ironic. Mary Ann was a great cook/baker.

Ginger was just a lovely ornament.
Posted by: Soaking In Lagoon

Jeannie gave great massages and had larger tata's.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 12, 2025 08:36 AM (abIsI)

194 We have about 4 inches of snow! A snowplow just went by clearing our road. Hubbymayhem is grumbling about maybe having to shovel a bit before we go out shopping. The man is from upstate NY! When his mom passed away and we had to travel, we were enduring a record cold snap here in Indiana that had our pipes frozen and at least one busted. NY got 36 inches of snow in 36 hours. That sucked. But grumble about 4 inches of snow? Seriously, dude! You grew up on Hoth! Stop fussing!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 12, 2025 08:36 AM (2J/Lj)

195 173 I believe it’s Eswatini, i.e., Swaziland. Which, ironically, is a landlocked country.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 08:36 AM (77rzZ)

196 Bondi's handling of the Maryland Man business has been embarrassingly incompetent.

They had a rock-solid win at the SCOTUS--a weak beg of "try real, real hard to get him back but the courts have no jurisdiction to conduct foreign policy."

And they threw that away for ... nothing. A single, f'ing "trafficking" charge. One.
34 felonies for Trump for one ledger entry; one piddling-ass charge from multiple human deliveries over decades.

All that ditz Bondi had to say was, "Kimar has the best lawyers in the world and the most-sympathetic judges anyone could ever ask for--if they can convince Salvador to let him live free in his native home of Salvador, we have no objection."

But she couldn't handle a little media heat and wilted ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 08:38 AM (HXT0k)

197 Leftists made the mistake of conflating forbearance and genuine tolerance for weakness.

It is to a certain degree, but an awful lot of formerly decent, peaceable people are pretty well resigned at this point to spittin’ on their hands and hoisting the black flag. I’m not looking forward to that, but it will be highly entertaining at one level to a degree that hasn’t been seen in quite some time.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:38 AM (04lxq)

198 Even Grok is polluted by woke. Dude asks about Ottoman aid to Ireland during potato famine, and is initially told it was purely humanitarian. Asks probing follow ups, and Grok eventually admits that it lied in initial answer in order to give "feel good" answer about muzzies. Long, but well worth.

https://tinyurl.com/ybx2vmns

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 12, 2025 08:39 AM (XvL8K)

199 Wait… TJM has a ewetube video?? Can someone provide a linky?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 08:39 AM (/iXAp)

200 Hungary’s guarded borders stand out in a Europe where migrant-driven unrest is forcing Christmas markets to shutter under rising security fears.

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How very islamophobic of them! Just give it up, accept sharia and you will all be secure !

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 08:40 AM (g47mK)

201 12 days until Christmas Eve.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2025 08:40 AM (QVuuq)

202 Meanwhile, in my part of metro Denver, the forecast is sunny and 60F

Sunday's game with the Packers, which by tradition should be played in the snow, will see the same fair weather.

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:41 AM (ZxPkt)

203 New Studies Find Dramatic Rise in Mortality for “Trans-Women" Who Use Cross Sex Hormones

What about the other way? Or is that rare enough that it's difficult to do a study?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

204 New York Post
@nypost
Meet Newsom’s trans godson Nats Getty, the clothing designer heir to a billionaire’s fortune

https://is.gd/nqIx4S

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Nads Getty?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:41 AM (L/fGl)

205 Nobel Peace Prize winner goes in disguise to get award:

https://tinyurl.com/3hn6f6cr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 08:41 AM (ZeH0U)

206 Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:41 AM (ZxPkt)

But on the bright side... Not as many stoned out, entitled skiers touristing around, right?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 12, 2025 08:43 AM (2J/Lj)

207 Well done ⁦@FreeBeacon⁩. EXCLUSIVE: Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'a Foremost Expert' on Radical Islam and Was Studying for an Oxford PhD—But His Thesis Is 'Missing' and There's No Evidence He Was Ever a Doctoral Student

I was 40 something and my transcript was required for a contract I was on.
How hard is it to look this shit up??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

208 "Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2025 is "The Architects of AI,"

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 08:44 AM (g47mK)

209 I think Tucker suffers from the same derangement as MTG.
Donor Derangement Syndrome: I supported/donated to you so you owe me a job. (And if you don't, I'll go scorched Earth on you)

I mean, Tucker was at Mar a Largo on Election Night.
Now, he's completely exiled himself.

Part of Trump 2.0 is realizing that a lot of the weak, incompetent and disloyal hires that sabotaged him in 1.0 were those type.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2025 08:45 AM (HXT0k)

210 Gas prices in Austin just did their periodic 50 cents per gallon jump in price. It's irritating. It'll slowly drop over the next few weeks and then... bam... up 50 cents.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025

***
Yes, well, it's Austin.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 08:45 AM (wzUl9)

211 And I gotta ask, What in the name of Colonel Sanders is the Flag of E-Swatini?? Is it like the Flag of E-Macaroni? Is their President named Chef Boy R. Dee?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 08:15 AM (jr4TK)

E-Swatini is a country in southern Africa (also known as Swaziland) completely surrounded by South Africa and Mozambique. It appears to have, approximately, zero inches of coastal territory, making it an odd choice for a merchant fleet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

212 Meet Newsom’s trans godson Nats Getty, the clothing designer heir to a billionaire’s fortune
https://is.gd/nqIx4S

I would hit it in the backseat of a Waymo.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Waymo Sex Pest at December 12, 2025 08:45 AM (YyIMQ)

213
Getty. Nads Getty.

No. That doesn't work.

Posted by: Ian Fleming at December 12, 2025 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)

214 12 days until Christmas Eve.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2025 08:40 AM (QVuuq)

😱

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

215 I am a fancy gentleman.
Posted by: TJM's phone

Wow. That suit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

216 It is to a certain degree, but an awful lot of formerly decent, peaceable people are pretty well resigned at this point to spittin’ on their hands and hoisting the black flag. I’m not looking forward to that, but it will be highly entertaining at one level to a degree that hasn’t been seen in quite some time.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 08:38 AM (04lxq)

If anybody remembers Breitbart's final days, he seemed to have chosen a much more brutal and confrontational style. In one street scene in Los Angeles, he absolutely freaked out a group of Leftists and had to be dragged away by his people. He may have reached a reckoning that reasoned discourse was no longer possible. #War.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 08:47 AM (VnsnO)

217 New York Post
@nypost
Meet Newsom’s trans godson Nats Getty, the clothing designer heir to a billionaire’s fortune

https://is.gd/nqIx4S

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Nads Getty?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 12, 2025 08:41 AM (L/fGl)

Nads GetRidOfY

Amirite?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)

218 203 What about the other way? Or is that rare enough that it's difficult to do a study?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

Nobody cares, I would imagine, because nobody feels sexually threatened by someone who wasn't born with a penis.

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 08:49 AM (UnA8+)

219 "Wow. That suit."

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Sunday morning Book Thread Strange Pants worthy.

Posted by: But that's just me at December 12, 2025 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)

220 I am a fancy gentleman.
Posted by: TJM's phone at December 12, 2025 08:24 AM (sl6Z3)
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You know what's going to happen with those pants, don't you?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 12, 2025 08:51 AM (ESVrU)

221 "Fancy Gentleman" TJM on Frank Capra:

https://youtu.be/x3DMpH4xWB8

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:51 AM (6ydKt)

222 I am a fancy gentleman.
Posted by: TJM's phone

Wow. That suit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

Snazzy suit.

You look like a character from "Santa Claus VS The Martians".

Perhaps named Sam T Klaus, Santa's Dissolute Eggnog-Abusing Cousin.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2025 08:51 AM (iJfKG)

223 Cop saves choking baby by side of road:

https://tinyurl.com/44k574p5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 08:51 AM (ZeH0U)

224 219 & 220.

Posted by: Horde mind! at December 12, 2025 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)

225 In an ideal world, the parent would respond with "You are wrong and I reject your choice. If you must recommend hormones for my DAUGHTER, prescribe estrogen or find me someone who will."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 12, 2025 08:35 AM (7xrfc)

Saw a video once where some little girl was watching something on a tablet. Mom walks in. Girl say, "I'm a boy." Mom says, "No, you're not, you're a girl and I never want to hear that nonsense again. What are you?" Girl says, "I'm a girl."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

226 Somali scammers in Ohio

She explained that scammers in the community have been exploiting a loophole in Ohio’s Medicaid program that allows individuals to receive Medicaid payments, totaling as much as $91,000 per year per individual, for care they are supposedly providing to a family member. Doctors who approve these payments in turn receive kickbacks themselves, according to Cooke.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2025 08:52 AM (gbOdA)

227 A question for Utah Hordians. Is Spencer Cox evil or just unbelievably naive? There's a thread at Twitchy were he's being interviewed and complains about people not getting along.
It doesn't seem to register that Dems are batshit insane

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 08:52 AM (D+mpw)

228 I think I've only seen Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, and Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.

I don't think I've ever watched It's A Wonderful Life entirely in one sitting, only seen parts at different times.

Keep meaning to get around to it, but hasn't happened yet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 08:54 AM (6ydKt)

229 so, this is from 2024, but it's been making the rounds, since the new legislation against Muslim bros. is stalled. right after the likes of Carlson , and some administration figures visited Qatar: "The oil-rich Gulf state of Qatar hired a former CIA agent’s company to discredit Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., and other lawmakers who oppose Hamas and its parent organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

The documents reveal that the alleged Qatar state-funded espionage campaign targeted Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, because he had sought to have the Muslim Brotherhood designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

The clandestine document, titled “Project ENDGAME” and drafted by U.S. company Global Risk Advisors (GRA), which was founded by the ex-CIA employee Kevin Chalker, reads, “High Alert: An attack on Hamas is an attack on Qatar. An attack on the Muslim Brotherhood is an attack on Qatar.”

I would like to remind you that one Qatar operative, Tucker Carlson, is also very vicious against Cruz.

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)

230 222 I am a fancy gentleman.
Posted by: TJM's phone

Amazing to see how far one can go in a quest to avoid real employment.

Posted by: "Mindy" On OnlyFans at December 12, 2025 08:54 AM (oftw2)

231 > Bondi's handling of the Maryland Man business has been embarrassingly incompetent.
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I'd have to look for the story, but my wife said there was an exchange between Trump and Bondi some time after the latest cabinet meeting where he sort of went off on her. He reportedly told her she just repeats the same BS at every cabinet meeting and "isn't getting anything done."

She's got some sympathetic commenters here, and some that are pretty critical of her.

By every measure of performance in my mind, she's failing. I don't know if she's just too timid for the job or is an active player in the judicial coup.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 08:54 AM (NwnyJ)

232 And, I must admit that when I saw this story,
Charlie Kirk's Alleged Assassin Smirks During First In-Person Hearing

The left is willing to trade its street activists/thugs/losers for right leaning leaders. Since this is working for them it will continue until one of the following happens:

1) People start voting out left leaning pols specifically because they endorse violence

2) The Trump admin arrests, convicts, and jails the leadership of the left responsible for this

3) The leadership of the left starts being targeted in the same way the leadership of the right is

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 08:55 AM (sKqQm)

233 Wait… TJM has a ewetube video?? Can someone provide a linky?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 08:39 AM (/iXAp)

youtube.com/@ANOTHERMovieChannel-q9l

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

234 Qatar under the current sheik, or emir or whatever the fk you call him, is not a friend, it's a money laundering state for Iran.

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 08:55 AM (g47mK)

235 SO speaking of war crimes...

The US is not at war with Russia or Germany so isn't blowing up their oil pipeline a crime Biden and co could be charged for?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 08:55 AM (sKqQm)

236 >But on the bright side... Not as many stoned out, entitled skiers touristing around, right?

Posted by: Madamemayhem

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oh I stay away from the mountains this time of year
nothing but trouble up there

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:56 AM (ZxPkt)

237 Hey. Let's see YOU run a cabinet level department from the Fox News green room!

Posted by: Pamela Blondie at December 12, 2025 08:57 AM (2Ez/1)

238 Spencer Cox and the rest of the French Republicans live in a highly insulated bubble where mass immigration, child sex changes, bureaucratic autocracy, and other issues that separate the right from the left such are nothing more than political arguments. They have no understanding of how these matters affect people not insulated by the ruling class wealth, power, and privilege.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 12, 2025 08:57 AM (ACJFA)

239 Qatar under the current sheik, or emir or whatever the fk you call him, is not a friend, it's a money laundering state for Iran.
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 08:55 AM (g47mK)

If you want to screw over the Boss, then cozy up to the yutzes who do his laundry for him.

Strategery 101.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 08:57 AM (Vq1pX)

240
By every measure of performance in my mind, she's failing. I don't know if she's just too timid for the job or is an active player in the judicial coup.

This is always an open question. But a lot of right leaning politicians like her always just seem to do the minimum and treat these politically sensitive cases like they would some routine case...but she should know there is a whole movement out there looking to free this guy by any means possible. So you don't do the bear minimum.

You charge this guy with everything. AND you charge the people around him. For example have other people been arrested for being part of his human trafficking ring?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 08:58 AM (sKqQm)

241 Pretty good youtube essay on the F47, for those who get jazzed (as I do) interested in new warfighting aircraft

https://tinyurl.com/mrdpehea

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 08:58 AM (ij71G)

242 The Soviets had a name for people like Carlson, during Stalin's reign, before the Gulag Archipelago, the Soviets were trying to make a name for themselves, and brought various famous characters to promote the great life in the USSR, and the Soviet system as a whole.

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 08:58 AM (g47mK)

243 I don't think I've ever watched It's A Wonderful Life entirely in one sitting, only seen parts at different times.

Keep meaning to get around to it, but hasn't happened yet.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025

***
I first saw it in 1979, in August yet, at an SF convention. (Let's face it, it *is* a fantasy film.) I'd never heard of it and had no idea what to expect. The entire "alternate Bedford Falls" sequence is really disturbing the first time you see it. And that effect doesn't really wear off.

I suppose the reason it was not a big success when first released was that audiences were not in tune with fantasy films. There had not been many by then, Wizard of Oz and a few others, and the big boom in SF monster movies and the A-picture Forbidden Planet were far in the future.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 08:59 AM (wzUl9)

244 I don't know if she's just too timid for the job or is an active player in the judicial coup.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 08:54 AM (NwnyJ)

I suspect more the former. She's a careerist not a radical reformer or even a committed reformer. Her real skill is playing the power-jockeying and flattery game.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 08:59 AM (VnsnO)

245 But Pammie was so hardcore in her confirmation hearings

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 08:59 AM (ZxPkt)

246 Spencer Cox and the rest of the French Republicans live in a highly insulated bubble

We've seen the internal comms for several of these guys. Their plan is to get enough money aka "generational wealth" that they don't have to care if the country goes to shit.

Remember the left is aiming for the Brazilian model where there will still be rich elites while most of the country is dirt poor.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

247 oh I stay away from the mountains this time of year
nothing but trouble up there
Posted by: Don Black

There aren't that many places you can live a mile high and say that you stay out of the mountains.

Posted by: Some Plateau In Tibet, Maybe at December 12, 2025 09:00 AM (oftw2)

248 I am not a "Swiftie". I couldn't even name a Taylor Swift song. I am also not a fashionista, but this outfit looks ridiculous to me:

https://tinyurl.com/2xvwv989

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:00 AM (ZeH0U)

249 By every measure of performance in my mind, she's failing. I don't know if she's just too timid for the job or is an active player in the judicial coup.

I think she's just a lightweight

it's probably NOT a job for a woman, frankly.

there's already talk of who will replace her, probably this will happen in the new year.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 09:00 AM (emBoF)

250 Wait… TJM has a ewetube video?? Can someone provide a linky?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025
*
youtube.com/@ANOTHERMovieChannel-q9l
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025

***
TJM looks like the Riddler!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 09:01 AM (wzUl9)

251
The Big Dummy has the day off today in Orlando, as it's all specialty shows. So instead of getting groomed and primped and running around a ring, he's going to get collected. I'm not sure which is worse.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:01 AM (tgvbd)

252 246 Remember the left is aiming for the Brazilian model where there will still be rich elites while most of the country is dirt poor.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

And in this case, "the left" also includes the GOP.

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 09:01 AM (UnA8+)

253 Cruz was not the only target : "A former employee of GRA who obtained the “Project ENDGAME” document from the company’s office in Doha told Fox News Digital that Qatar’s ruling Al-Thani family, via GRA, aimed to also discredit Sen. Tom Cotton."

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 09:01 AM (g47mK)

254 youtube.com/@ANOTHERMovieChannel-q9l
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

Thank you Sir. The first video that pops up for me is a guy who must be TJM in a sweater giving a primer on how to get into movies….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 09:01 AM (/iXAp)

255 I don't think I've ever watched It's A Wonderful Life entirely in one sitting, only seen parts at different times.

I watch it every year. Every year I hope that bush will lose its leaves. Every year I am disappointed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

256 243 I suppose the reason it was not a big success when first released was that audiences were not in tune with fantasy films. There had not been many by then, Wizard of Oz and a few others, and the big boom in SF monster movies and the A-picture Forbidden Planet were far in the future.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 08:59 AM (wzUl9)

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I talk about it in the video, but I think it was a business miscalculation, Capra trying to go independent in 1946 when the Paramount Accords hadn't been written yet and the vertical integration of studios with theaters (along with the practice of block booking for indy theaters) was the norm.

An expensive indie film would have real trouble breaking through and playing for weeks in that environment.

If MGM had distributed it, I think it would have been a huge success.

Capra just tried to go indie 10 years too early.

Posted by: TJM's phone at December 12, 2025 09:03 AM (jyqhl)

257 I think she's just a lightweight

it's probably NOT a job for a woman, frankly.

there's already talk of who will replace her, probably this will happen in the new year.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 09:00 AM (emBoF)

And they will accomplish nothing. And the whining will resume. And they will be replaced. And so on, and so on, and so on.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

258 248 I am not a "Swiftie". I couldn't even name a Taylor Swift song. I am also not a fashionista, but this outfit looks ridiculous to me:

https://tinyurl.com/2xvwv989
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:00 AM
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It would be fun to read Piper's take on Tay Tay.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)

259 Thank you Sir. The first video that pops up for me is a guy who must be TJM in a sweater giving a primer on how to get into movies….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 09:01 AM (/iXAp)

Like, comment, subscribe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

260 I think there are many people in here who would rather live in Pottersville than Bedford Falls.

Posted by: Miscreant Mike at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (oftw2)

261 BLACK MAN’S KRYPTONITE!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo
White She-Devil did nothing wrong.
Posted by: NR Pax
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I believe her name was Diamond and she was from Australia. The Somali cop saw the She-Devil and shot her dead.

Creepy and Dirty Pirates have taken over Minnesota.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (lL6v/)

262 257 And they will accomplish nothing. And the whining will resume. And they will be replaced. And so on, and so on, and so on.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

There has to be someone clean enough that they have nothing the IC apparatus can use against them...

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (UnA8+)

263 here is some more from the article @NY Post
"Some of the alleged Qatari media assets listed in the document are The New York Times, Middle East Eye and The Intercept." and that was a Year ago. these days they have "interests" in youtube, and youtubers as well.

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (g47mK)

264 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:01 AM (tgvbd)

Why is his being collected a bad thing?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:06 AM (ZeH0U)

265 Morning JJ and horde. Talked to a few political saavy friends in Neighboring Indiana. They it was a good chance, that a 9-0 map could have really backfired on the GOP. Apparently GOP did a map like this in the 70's, and they ending up losing 5 seats soon after. Who knows

Posted by: Jonah at December 12, 2025 09:06 AM (YCxFk)

266 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)

Yes. It would be.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:07 AM (ZeH0U)

267 Margorie Greene, really turned into a POS. I liked her, thought she had guts. Does Code pink etc.. know she is Pro Life?
Useful idiot I guess

Posted by: Jonah at December 12, 2025 09:08 AM (YCxFk)

268 Is Spencer Cox evil or just unbelievably naive?
——-

Oh, don’t be fooled. Most people “understand” just fine. It’s impossible to get someone to admit to understanding something, when their paycheck depends on them not understanding something.

Finding people who have a dedication to pursuing facts wherever they lead is like finding a Unicorn.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 09:08 AM (04lxq)

269 260 I think there are many people in here who would rather live in Pottersville than Bedford Falls.
Posted by: Miscreant Mike at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM

++++

Call us!

Posted by: Shreveport, Louisiana Chamber of Commerce at December 12, 2025 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

270 I figure Bondi's a politician first, AG second. It's why she's "liked" by the establishment. If she'd even do the minimal and give lip service to hauling in all the people who have been fingered as players in the Russia hoax, the Antifa horseshit and so on, she'd at least give the appearance of "doing something." And then blame underlings for not following through.

That right there is what a competent politico would do.

But... she's not even doing the bare minimum.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 09:08 AM (NwnyJ)

271 I try to give people like Bondi the chance to prove themselves. Her actions in the Trayvon case were questionable , but other things she did pre DoJ were solid. However it seems that the massive corruption in the DoJ are beyond her abilities to get rid of. Now there may be things behind the scenes that are occurring that we don't know about but the public face ain't good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 09:09 AM (D+mpw)

272 I absolutely adore the movie It’s a Wonderful Life… watch it in its entirety most every Christmas Eve…. My favorite scene I think is when he first meets Clarence the angel… they’re drying out from their Clarence-designed plumge into the freezing river. George doesn’t really believe Clarence is an angel but asks him if he wouldn’t happen to have 8000 bucks… then says oh yeah right they don’t need money in heaven. Then exclaims: Well it comes in pretty handy down here, Bub!

Always makes me laugh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2025 09:09 AM (/iXAp)

273 There has to be someone clean enough that they have nothing the IC apparatus can use against them...
Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (UnA8+)

It's not about the person at the top. The AG doesn't, personally, do much of anything. They give orders and direction. It's up to the myriad lower layers to actually do the work.

The myriad lower layers of the single most corrupt agency in the federal government. Working hand-in-hand with corrupt elements of the judiciary to stop reform from happening. Ask Alina Habba.

But, sure, it's just that Bondi isn't tough enough.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

274 >@RealSpitfire
·
16h
.@ChuckGrassley
is 92 years old. He has filed papers for reelection in 2028, when he will be 95. If he finished that term he will be 101.

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 09:09 AM (ZxPkt)

275
I think there are many people in here who would rather live in Pottersville than Bedford Falls.
Posted by: Miscreant Mike at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (oftw2)

In C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, the residents of a grim Pottersville town (Hell) are given the chance to move to a idyllic Bedford Falls (Heaven). All they have to do is repent of their past misdeeds. Almost all of them choose to return to Pottersville.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:10 AM (tgvbd)

276 I am not a "Swiftie". I couldn't even name a Taylor Swift song. I am also not a fashionista, but this outfit looks ridiculous to me:

https://tinyurl.com/2xvwv989
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 \

***
Fen, it does -- like far too many of the outfits I glimpse in Miss Linda's Vogue and Harper's Bazaar magazines. They come to *my* mailbox, addressed to my late cat Tatiana, and I look because I'm curious. The editors actually think people wear that stuff?

Taylor's very early songs, "You Belong With Me" (including the video) and "Our Song," are both very good and worth your while. Like you, though, I have no idea what her stuff is like now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 09:10 AM (wzUl9)

277
I believe her name was Diamond and she was from Australia. The Somali cop saw the She-Devil and shot her dead.

It is fascinating how cops shooting the 5 BLM "martyrs" was the national news story for a summer and this was just local news.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 09:10 AM (sKqQm)

278 Does Code pink etc.. know she is Pro Life?

Is she? Really?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

279 Madcow was on TV talking to Jen Psaki-Psak the other day, hilariously claiming Trump is barely aware of his own name and isn't running the government. The woman is delusional, of course, but Nellie Bowles says Trump has had enough. He wants jail!

After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it.

This crime may rank low on the ever-expanding list of Propaganda News crimes against America, but not to PDJT. To his way of thinking, all these crimes are part of the same treasonous fabric, and he is mad.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 09:11 AM (TtpXl)

280
In C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, the residents of a grim Pottersville town (Hell) are given the chance to move to a idyllic Bedford Falls (Heaven). All they have to do is repent of their past misdeeds. Almost all of them choose to return to Pottersville.

A theme common in his works are people seeing the true glory of God and choosing hell instead of the forgiveness and grace that is offered. I remember a similiar take at the end of the Narnia series

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 09:12 AM (sKqQm)

281 275 Almost all of them choose to return to Pottersville.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:10 AM (tgvbd)

As they probably should.

Remain shackled to their guilt, knowing they are unworthy.

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 09:12 AM (UnA8+)

282 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

BREAKING: DNI Tulsi Gabbard says she is targeting radical Islamist ideology infiltrating America, re-vetting "EVERY SINGLE" Afghan national let in under Biden

"This remains the greatest near and long-term threat, not only to the safety and security of the American people, but to the foundational freedoms that exist within our Constitution and western civilization."

"This needs to happen VERY, very quickly."

Tulsi and NCTC Director Joe Kent are making America safe again.
@TulsiGabbard

https://tinyurl.com/muzcpypd

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

283 Donna Reed is absolutely luminous in IAWL.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

284 The Big Dummy has the day off today in Orlando, as it's all specialty shows. So instead of getting groomed and primped and running around a ring, he's going to get collected. I'm not sure which is worse.

lol he might enjoy it, who knows?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 09:12 AM (emBoF)

285
Why is his being collected a bad thing?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:06 AM (ZeH0U)

"Omne animal post coitum triste est sive gallus et mulier"

- Galen

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:13 AM (tgvbd)

286 "@ChuckGrassley
is 92 years old. He has filed papers for reelection in 2028, when he will be 95. If he finished that term he will be 101."

###
Young whipper snapper.

Posted by: The ghost of Strom Thurmond at December 12, 2025 09:13 AM (2Ez/1)

287 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 09:10 AM (wzUl9

Thanks for the song suggestions.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:13 AM (ZeH0U)

288 @RealSpitfire
·
16h
.@ChuckGrassley
is 92 years old. He has filed papers for reelection in 2028, when he will be 95. If he finished that term he will be 101.
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 09:09 AM (ZxPkt)

First elected in 1980. Forty five years in office but he still has so much to accomplish. Just ask his staff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

289 TJM, what's the FunkoPop on your bookshelf? And does that license plate say OUTLANDR? Obscure, baby!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 12, 2025 09:13 AM (kpS4V)

290 agree I doubt MTG is sincerely pro-life

it's another mask she wears

she's a selfish former daddy's girl who ALWAYS got what she wanted. that's all. solipsistic.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 09:13 AM (emBoF)

291 Grassley's staff really like being Senator(s)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 09:14 AM (emBoF)

292 Again, Bondi's DOJ put prosecutors in place in the Comey and LeTit James prosecutions that had issues with their legitimacy that were allowed to be exploited.

One mistake, while not understandable, would have been unfortunate, two, is inexcusable and reeks of gross negligence and more than likely, active sabotage.

There was a reason that Matt Gaetz was not allowed to be AG.

Blondi has got to go.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 12, 2025 09:14 AM (XV/Pl)

293 It is interesting that when the SC was warming up to over turn RvW a whole host of GOPers, who had damned Trump for not being "really pro-life" suddenly started arguing the RvW should be maintained.

And, I should be clear here, this was NOT sold as a pure political argument of "overturning RvW will Dems political victories" this was a bunch of supposedly "severely pro-life" GOPers decided RvW was a good compromise when it was finally about to be removed after railing against it for decades

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 09:15 AM (sKqQm)

294 sive gallus et mulier"

- Galen
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:13 AM (tgvbd)

"... except for Women and the French"?

That can't be right...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 09:15 AM (Vq1pX)

295 "This needs to happen VERY, very quickly."

*****
Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 12, 2025 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)

296 Taylor's very early songs, "You Belong With Me" (including the video) and "Our Song," are both very good and worth your while. Like you, though, I have no idea what her stuff is like now.

------
She has a song that's a tribute to her fiancée's junk.

Posted by: Tortured Eardrum Society at December 12, 2025 09:16 AM (vqA1l)

297
I once took Dutch (The Beeg Boy) to a reproductive clinic to be collected. He was all slobbery and goofy around the bait girl until his tackle was grabbed by the technician. At which point he froze up and looked grim. The contrast was almost comical.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:16 AM (tgvbd)

298 BLACK MAN’S KRYPTONITE!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo
White She-Devil did nothing wrong.
Posted by: NR Pax
=====

I believe her name was Diamond and she was from Australia. The Somali cop saw the She-Devil and shot her dead.

Creepy and Dirty Pirates have taken over Minnesota.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 12, 2025 09:05 AM (lL6v/)

*sings*

Her name was Diamond
She was Australian
Till a Somali shot her dead
He was a cop
That's what they said
At Minnesotaaaaaaa!
Don't live there, bud.

Posted by: Zombie Barry Manilow at December 12, 2025 09:16 AM (iJfKG)

299 She has a song that's a tribute to her fiancée's junk.
Posted by: Tortured Eardrum Society at December 12, 2025 09:16 AM (vqA1l)

Shake it off?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 09:17 AM (Vq1pX)

300
"... except for Women and the French"?

That can't be right...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 09:15 AM (Vq1pX)

The rooster

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:17 AM (tgvbd)

301 These somali cops are just shooting the Australians that Americans won't.

Really it is an act of love

Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 12, 2025 09:17 AM (sKqQm)

302 She has a song that's a tribute to her fiancée's junk.
Posted by: Tortured Eardrum Society at December 12, 2025 09:16 AM (vqA1l)

Shake it off?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 09:17 AM (Vq1pX)

Is That All.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

303 Is That All.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

Ha!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 09:18 AM (Vq1pX)

304 "better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven" seems appropriate for the left. Milton may have been boring and told bad jokes (Animal House) but he knew of what he wrote

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 09:18 AM (D+mpw)

305 "She has a song that's a tribute to her fiancée's junk."
+++

There's money to be made singing songs about genitalia.

Posted by: Cardi B's accountant at December 12, 2025 09:19 AM (2Ez/1)

306
Sharonne Moore's roll in the cheating scandal a year ago was significantly downplayed in favor of highlighting Conner Stallions egregious behavior.

He and Mel Tucker are trash, simply put.

Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2025 09:20 AM (Y8DZL)

307 Being tall is a handicap in fighter jets and submarines.

I know several ex-submariners: they are all people that get noticed as tall in a crowd of average people. That short submariner may have been true in WW2, but in the nuclear age not so much. People selected for submarines have to fit a psychological profile more than anything physical: "anyone on a submarine can kill everyone on the sub". Tall people who aren't bullies tend to fit that psyche profile.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 12, 2025 09:20 AM (Da7Vv)

308 304 "better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven" seems appropriate for the left. Milton may have been boring and told bad jokes (Animal House) but he knew of what he wrote
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2025 09:18 AM (D+mpw)

Stockholm Syndrome is also a thing.

Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2025 09:20 AM (UnA8+)

309 There's money to be made singing songs about genitalia.
Posted by: Cardi B's accountant at December 12, 2025 09:19 AM (2Ez/1)

It's actually about a real toy bell, dammit! You people....

Posted by: Chuck Berry at December 12, 2025 09:20 AM (Vq1pX)

310 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 09:16 AM (tgvbd)

lol.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:21 AM (looXz)

311 Trump's running into some of the same problems that he had in his first term. Say he fires Bondi. Any replacement worth a damn will have a hard time getting confirmed. Bill Barr part two is the absolute best he can hope for.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 12, 2025 09:22 AM (vqA1l)

312 Thanks JJ!

Mamdami is an empty suit, I think Bibi should come to NYC and show tha the new mayor to be's just all talk. But Mamdami's handlers might be more aggressive and actually arrest Bibi.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2025 09:22 AM (gWBY1)

313 "She has a song that's a tribute to her fiancée's junk."

---
The Paolo, also has been the subject, of, how you say, such musical adoration.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 12, 2025 09:22 AM (2Ez/1)

314 "In an April 2021 town hall meeting, Cox announced his personal pronouns are "he", "him", and "his"."

Nuff said.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 12, 2025 09:22 AM (GJYG7)

315 I know several ex-submariners: they are all people that get noticed as tall in a crowd of average people. That short submariner may have been true in WW2, but in the nuclear age not so much. People selected for submarines have to fit a psychological profile more than anything physical: "anyone on a submarine can kill everyone on the sub". Tall people who aren't bullies tend to fit that psyche profile.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 12, 2025 09:20 AM (Da7Vv)

It helps to have a fatalistic sense of humor. Particularly when you have an incredibly incompetent, borderline cowardly, captain. Not that I'd know anything about that.

What an incredible change his replacement was.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

316 I've found some videos that a woman does with older songs, before the 60s, that have very strong and very obvious Double entendres. So this isn't a new thing at all...

Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 12, 2025 09:24 AM (sKqQm)

317 Just ask his staff"

I don't want to even think about his staff...

/zombie Bob Dole

Posted by: man at December 12, 2025 09:24 AM (XuXeR)

318 As a non-native resident of Indiana, I fucking hate pretty much everything about this worthless state. Every alleged Republican who sold us out needs to be targeted for un-election.

Posted by: Jetto at December 12, 2025 09:24 AM (HA9nr)

319 JD Vance
@JDVance

Rod Bray, the Senate leader in Indiana, has consistently told us he wouldn't fight redistricting while simultaneously whipping his members against it. That level of dishonesty cannot be rewarded, and the Indiana GOP needs to choose a side.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

320 299 She has a song that's a tribute to her fiancée's junk.
Posted by: Tortured Eardrum Society at December 12, 2025 09:16 AM (vqA1l)

Shake it off?

-----
The title is very subtle. It's called......."Wood".

Why do I know this? I'm surrounded by Swifties.
Hell on Earth.

Posted by: Tortured Eardrum Society at December 12, 2025 09:25 AM (vqA1l)

321 Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr

If Indiana Republicans side with these Never Trumpers to do the dirty work of Democrats, I'll be spending a lot of time in Indiana next year campaigning against every single one of them.

PS: These RINO consultants sabotaging MAGA need to be rooted out of the GOP!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 12, 2025 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

322 @311

>>Trump's running into some of the same problems that he had in his first term. Say he fires Bondi. Any replacement worth a damn will have a hard time getting confirmed. Bill Barr part two is the absolute best he can hope for.

Well, keep Blondi but create a czar that will monitor, control and direct the actions of the DOJ.

Basically, Blondi is an incompetent buffoon who needs to be shitcanned but as you alluded, her replacement would probably just a shitty as her.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 12, 2025 09:26 AM (XV/Pl)

323 I forgot I have seen It Happened One Night.

It's a really good comedy for the time.
I did enjoy that one, and the other Capra films I've seen.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 09:27 AM (6ydKt)

324 Now the judges demand extra personal security.
Rep. Andy Ogles Exposes Judges Who Released Somali Migrant Suspect For Brutal Rape of Woman Who Later Died
____

I'm absolutely NOT advocating violence against these judges, but I must ask again, why aren't the fathers, brothers and sons of these idiot judges laying down the law (no pun intended) to straighten up these idiots?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 09:27 AM (Dv3i1)

325 Rod Bray, the Senate leader in Indiana, has consistently told us he wouldn't fight redistricting while simultaneously whipping his members against it. That level of dishonesty cannot be rewarded, and the Indiana GOP needs to choose a side.

It is comical how often Republican leaders won't do the bare minimum to help the right.

As needs to be pointed out again and again - the whole region of New England has been 100% gerrymandered. They are 21-0 donk even though overall Rs represent about 40% of the voters

Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 12, 2025 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

326 From the "Florida Sues Medical Organizations" article:

"Even so, the three medical organizations have continued to reference one another’s guidelines promoting sex change drugs and surgeries for minors who believe they are transgender..."

WPATH, AAP and the Endocrine Society engaging in circular, self-referencing, ideological, justification for the transing of children? Who would have thunk it?

Good for Florida (and Texas) for taking the lead on this.

Posted by: muldoon at December 12, 2025 09:28 AM (/iMjX)

327 Trump's got a number of women in his cabinet. All of them except Bondi have records of achievement.

Gabbard and Noem stand out. Both in arguably difficult positions. Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education has been successful in downsizing the department under her purview and stripped a lot of the woke out of it. His press secretary is pretty good too.

But, yea... let's blame the corruption in DoJ and not the AG who's supposed to get that shit under control.

Put her on a PIP (personal improvement plan) and if she's failing that... ax her. I was middle management Fed for 30+ years. That's how you kick ass with an employee who's being recalcitrant. They'll either shape up, or ship out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 09:28 AM (NwnyJ)

328 Scott Bessent says most Americans with W2 income, which is most people, will receive tax refunds in early next year of between $1000 and $2000, because the big beautiful bill lowered required withholding in line with lower taxes on working incomes, but most people haven't yet changed their withholding rates.

Americans will keep more of their ongoing income, too. So, a double plus for the economy!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 09:28 AM (JPzNZ)

329 Rod Bray, the Senate leader in Indiana"

Read up on this jerkwad... he's the poster boy for how many states' GOP operates...multi generation pol family, he rises just by hanging around as predecessors retire or die off...

Posted by: man at December 12, 2025 09:28 AM (XuXeR)

330 The entirety of the trans movement is slowly, but irreversibly suiciding themselves into extinction.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
+++
That's terrible.

The slowly part anyway.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 12, 2025 09:28 AM (Lo97M)

331 Rename all the cabinet departments.

Secretary of War? Lovely.
Now do:
Secretary of Trade War
Secretary of Interior War
Secretary of Lawfare

Et cetera, et cetera.

Posted by: Chuck Berry at December 12, 2025 09:29 AM (Vq1pX)

332 Go away, ding a ling sock

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 09:29 AM (Vq1pX)

333 “My Man Stands Out,” Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends (1950)

https://youtu.be/MrU63AFRQPk

Posted by: Speaking of Down There at December 12, 2025 09:30 AM (2Ez/1)

334 I'm surrounded by Swifties.
Hell on Earth.
Posted by: Tortured Eardrum Society at December 12, 2025 09:25 AM (vqA1l)

I laughed but I am sorry. Husband is Beatles fan. Son listens to -among others-Tom Waits who is great lyricist but has the most horrible voice imaginable. It's made worse by my son, for some inexplicable reason, playing him
at a much lower speed than normal.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 09:30 AM (lQ+/f)

335 Singing quality:

Taylor Momsen >>>>>>> Taylor Swift

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 12, 2025 09:30 AM (PSEDc)

336 318 As a non-native resident of Indiana, I fucking hate pretty much everything about this worthless state. Every alleged Republican who sold us out needs to be targeted for un-election.
____

As a native Ohioan, I agree. But I can also say the same for worthless GOP in Ohio. Did you know Columbus has 2nd highest concentration of Somalians? Yes, there are 'incidents' here as well, but media and government do a fantastic job of keeping this information from getting widespread attention. I wonder how much Ohioans are getting defrauded? If the media has there way, we'll never know.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 12, 2025 09:30 AM (Dv3i1)

337
art is nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (tljrc)

338 Rep. Andy Ogles Exposes Judges Who Released Somali Migrant Suspect For Brutal Rape of Woman Who Later Died

Our elites understand bringing all of these people here will get Americans raped, murdered, and robbed.

They've made their peace with that...they don't care.

But there should be legal consequences. Anyone trying to impeach this judge? And no, I don't care if there aren't enough votes to actually remove them

Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (sKqQm)

339 Ugg Jeb Bush sock!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (sKqQm)

340 now I will be trying the sound of tom at a lower speed!

I love his voice

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2025 09:31 AM (emBoF)

341 And in my daily comment on the silver spot price: silver is at $64.62 per oz. That means a circulated mercury dime has $4.61 worth of silver in it.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 12, 2025 09:35 AM (Da7Vv)

342 Swift's singing voice lacks vibrato.

Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2025 09:37 AM (ZxPkt)

343 and takes place in the school’s chapel
‘This Has Gone Way Too Far': Videos Show Bizarre Sexual Ceremony That Elite Amherst College Pushes All First Year Students To Attend (Even Fredo and Johnny Ola were seen vomiting - jjs)

Do any doubts remain about the pervasive and pernicious influence of Big Penguin?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 09:38 AM (0sNs1)

344 People selected for submarines have to fit a psychological profile more than anything physical
———

In the Diesel Boat days, my Dad said the shrinks only asked one (1) question to determine suitability - “Do you like Girls?”. True story. They had things pretty well figured out a long, long time ago.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 09:39 AM (04lxq)

345 12 That's funny, Teresa never wants a second oxy at home.
/wonders to self
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 07:30 AM (9ipOP)

Perfect for those of us of a certain age. Can’t stop giggling. Thanks for this gift this morning!

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 12, 2025 09:44 AM (ZTJjv)

346 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2025 09:51 AM (0sNs1)

347 I've found some videos that a woman does with older songs, before the 60s, that have very strong and very obvious Double entendres. So this isn't a new thing at all...

----

Oh, not complaining about musical innuendo. It's just kind off off-putting to hear it from an allegedly "wholesome" performer with a big teenage fan base.

Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: Tortured Eardrum Society at December 12, 2025 10:22 AM (vqA1l)

348 In 1972 the young embraced Socialism as well. Didn’t save McGovern, though. He still was soundly defeated.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 12, 2025 10:30 AM (rQwsY)

349 The future belongs to those who show up.

Conservatives are having families. Progressives are cutting the dicks off the only kids they have.

Posted by: TJM's phone at December 12, 2025 08:28 AM

Muslims, Indians and the Idiocracy demographic are having kids at much higher rates than anyone.

That is the future of the USA and Western nations in general. European nations are already there. USA is not far behind.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 10:49 AM (P5BPp)

350 If anybody remembers Breitbart's final days, he seemed to have chosen a much more brutal and confrontational style. In one street scene in Los Angeles, he absolutely freaked out a group of Leftists and had to be dragged away by his people. He may have reached a reckoning that reasoned discourse was no longer possible. #War.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 12, 2025 08:47 AM

He was right. As we all found out with Charlie Kirk's assassination and the two attempts to assassinate Trump. Not to mention the years of censorship under the Obama Administration through the Trump 45 Administration when social media was still doing the bidding of Obama.

There is no reasoned discourse with people who are unreasonable and do not reason themselves into their positions and opinions.

We are an irrevocably divided nation.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 12, 2025 11:06 AM (P5BPp)

Daily Tech News 12 December 2025

Top Story

Reddit is suing Australia to have itself removed from the under-16 banlist. (The Register)

Reddit is a screaming dumpster fire, but so is our government, and I can simply ignore Reddit if I choose. So I'm solidly on their side.

Tech News

Want a high-resolution monitor but still need fast refresh rates for games? Asus' new XG27JG has you covered. (Tom's Hardware)

It's a 5k model which is good enough for almost anything, and runs at 180Hz which is also good enough for almost anything. But if you drop the resolution to 2560x1440 you can boost the refresh rate to 330Hz, which is more than enough.

HDR 600 and 97% of DCI-P3 colour. One small catch: It doesn't work at its full resolution and refresh rate on an Nvidia 4000-series card, because those only support an older version of DisplayPort. Previous generation Radeon 7000 series cards do work, as do all current-generation cards.

Around $835.
Buying 1152GB of Frakenram for $8000. (Tom's Hardware)

The user put an offer in on a second-hand custom Nvidia AI system that originally cost around $80,000 and managed to get it working.
Over 10,000 Docker Hub images have been found leaking credentials. (Bleeping Computer)

It's over 10,000!

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Buggrit, buggrem, millennium hand and shrimp!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

2 guten morgen, ♠horde

Posted by: clarence at December 12, 2025 04:04 AM (JwHY3)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:06 AM (Ia/+0)

4 For Billy Idol, I always like Dancing with myself

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:07 AM (Ia/+0)

5 >>>Reddit is suing Australia to have itself removed from the under-16 banlist. (The Register)

Thanks for that article. This is gonna be big.

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 04:09 AM (RuTUS)

6

Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, currently laboring under 6.5" of dreaded climate change.

I'd forgotten, as usual, how much fun moving climate change isn't. And how quickly the weather wailers spring into action, bemoaning their plights.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 12, 2025 04:12 AM (vFbHf)

7 Good morning. Gunter glieben glauten globen.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 12, 2025 04:12 AM (CVC34)

8 2 guten morgen, ♠horde
Posted by: clarence at December 12, 2025 04:04 AM (JwHY3)

7 Good morning. Gunter glieben glauten globen.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 12, 2025 04:12 AM (CVC34)

Leise rieselt der Schnee. (See comment #6.)

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 04:16 AM (RuTUS)

9 Not even winter yet. Maybe we pushed this climate change a little too far. Why can't idiots leave the rest of us alone.

Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 04:17 AM (G1OIb)

10 9 Why can't idiots leave the rest of us alone.
Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 04:17 AM (G1OIb)

similarly:

Ben Dreyfuss
@bendreyfuss
Dec 11
the real divide in this country isn't between liberals and conservatives or left and right or whatever, it's between most people and then a smaller number of people who are total dickheads.

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 04:20 AM (RuTUS)

11 8 2 guten morgen, ♠horde
Posted by: clarence at December 12, 2025 04:04 AM (JwHY3)

7 Good morning. Gunter glieben glauten globen.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 12, 2025 04:12 AM (CVC34)

Leise rieselt der Schnee. (See comment #6.)
----

Der Stuhl steht an der Wand.

Posted by: clarence at December 12, 2025 04:22 AM (JwHY3)

12 How many stories about Docker fails have there been this year?

Posted by: clarence at December 12, 2025 04:23 AM (JwHY3)

13 G'mornin' everyone! Yay Friday!

"I'll show 'em the end of a ragman's trumpet, I will!"
- Foul Ol' Ron

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2025 04:28 AM (Cjt/F)

14 um

U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history

https://archive.is/vqhmS

(WaPo)

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 04:29 AM (RuTUS)

15 *The proposal would affect travelers from countries on the visa waiver program, including Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and South Korea.

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 04:30 AM (RuTUS)

16 from the WaPo article:

In June, the State Department began requiring student visa applicants to have their social media accounts set to public, and the same requirement soon goes into effect for H-1B high-skilled worker visa applicants.

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 04:32 AM (RuTUS)

17 Somewhere around 130 days until Spring

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

18 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 12, 2025 04:36 AM (C26rB)

19 Is Roblox on the banned list? That's a social media platform masquerading as a game.

Posted by: f2000 at December 12, 2025 04:38 AM (uOo8r)

20 So called science is taking a black eye over false claims that have been coming out over the past few decades. COVID being a real load of BS. What to believe anymore is a question left to be answered.

Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 04:38 AM (G1OIb)

21 Not to excited about Friday, good chance have to go way up north again tomorrow if material shows up

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 04:44 AM (Ia/+0)

22 "What to believe anymore is a question left to be answered."

This is where an honest to god education comes in handy. For some people.

Posted by: pawn at December 12, 2025 04:45 AM (EMg+d)

23 "Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed."

Abraham Joshua Heschel - Jewish Rabbi and spiritual teacher.

1907-1972

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:47 AM (rZCVI)

24 what to believe? Ohm's & Watt's laws. steam tables, the CRC handbook, ITT Reference Data, ... there are many more books of physical truths. apply the same standards when approaching philosophies.

bs content of anything from the past quarter-century or so increases asymptotically as you get closer to today.

but you gotta learn,and make your own judgements, not listen to other peoples opinions.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2025 04:48 AM (Cjt/F)

25 I've gotta thank 'Methos' for the heads up on the ONT last night that Epic Games has the Hogwart's Legacy game for Free this week.

All true.
I just got it.
Saved myself $59.99.

I wish they'd give away Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and save me another $60.

Now I've just got to get the new GPU (and PSU and a CPU cooler) in the PC and I can actually play some stuff... eventually

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 04:48 AM (6ydKt)

26 Janitor gets to watch he daughter become teacher in school where he built a better life as a janitor:

https://tinyurl.com/3c7praz4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:49 AM (rZCVI)

27 nice quote, FS, thank you!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2025 04:50 AM (Cjt/F)

28 It's 'R' day!!!!

My HR has sprung into action with all the energy one expects from Human Resources in a mega-corp and noticed that today is my last day so, perhaps, they should give me a checklist or some shit about what they'd like me to do on the way out the door.

Fortunately, I had contacted them a couple weeks ago - wanted info on how COBRA works - so I already had the checklist and have been ticking things off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 04:51 AM (ExV1e)

29 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2025 04:50 AM

You are most welcome.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 04:55 AM (looXz)

30 For the guys (and gals) trying to build out a decent PC this Christmas without paying over $2000 just to start, JayzTwoCents has an interesting Shopping-Online Build that makes some sense.

"Is this the solution to the DDR5 Crisis?"
https://youtu.be/vwJZztIrQO8

He surfed and found deals on an Intel 12900K (MicroCenter CPU bundle with a motherboard), 32GB DDR4, Gen4 1TB SSD, 1000W PSU, and a RX 9070XT, and got the cost to around $1600 for a pretty decent gaming PC at a reasonable cost.

It's not a bad way to start a PC build the way things are with DDR5 pricing driving up the costs on an AM5 platform build.

You could also substitute some AMD 5000 series processors on a AM4 motherboard if you're not an Intel fan. Jay went with Intel because he believes they had a better product that generation. You could also go with an Intel 13th or 14th Gen CPU and still use DDR4.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 04:57 AM (6ydKt)

31 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 12, 2025 04:59 AM (AN2gy)

32 Pogo, Data & Picard

I woke up with this in my brain:

https://youtu.be/bl5TUw7sUBs

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 05:00 AM (RuTUS)

33
bs content of anything from the past quarter-century or so increases asymptotically as you get closer to today.

___________

I'm assembling journal articles for my book. I want to be comprehensive but I'm concerned that as I get closer to the present day there will be more phony-baloney "paper mill" stuff.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 05:00 AM (tgvbd)

34 I still see True Believers wearing masks, at least assume they are when I see them. Considering most often it's a minority woman.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

35 I don't like janitors. Smell of cabbage. Small hands.

Posted by: Bobby Hugbox at December 12, 2025 05:03 AM (MHmBy)

36
I still see True Believers wearing masks, at least assume they are when I see them. Considering most often it's a minority woman.
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

__________

I see very few men among the masketeers. Mostly Oriental and black women.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 05:05 AM (tgvbd)

37 Man rents mall store in Kansas to share his late wife's beautiful Christmas display:

https://tinyurl.com/b7kjz6kv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 05:11 AM (lQ+/f)

38 Hadrian thats mosley what I see, but not exclusively

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:14 AM (Ia/+0)

39
Good morning, everyone. I'm up n atom, gottat get over to MCO Orlando to catch a plane home to Huntsville.

Lurk ya later. Have a great day and a better weekend.

Hadrian, prayers for the safe trip home for Her Majesty and the Big Dummy. Wish i had had the time to go see the dog show, any part of it, but just couldn't get loose from work to do so.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 12, 2025 05:15 AM (48yvf)

40
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2025 05:16 AM (tljrc)

41 Boy sent to Christmas show at his school in Wales dressed as Elvis instead of Elf after a family mix up:

https://tinyurl.com/5n75tpza

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 05:18 AM (lQ+/f)

42 Greetings from the Carolinas. Nothing to report.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 12, 2025 05:22 AM (XqFM2)

43 I found out about this yesterday. It lets you publish an onlne book. The software is free. It does not publish a stand alone ebook and you have to host your own site. It would be good for an author wanting to give smeone a taste of their work.

https://once.com/writebook

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:24 AM (+mUZM)

44 Evening and morning, people of the Ace! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

7 Good morning. Gunter glieben glauten globen.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 12, 2025

Leise rieselt der Schnee. (See comment #6.)
----
Der Stuhl steht an der Wand.

***
Are we speaking German this morning? I've been out sick. I didn't know there was a German test today!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 05:25 AM (wzUl9)

45 I keep watching Don't Trust the Rabbit but don't seem to be picking up much German language

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:28 AM (Ia/+0)

46 "I still see True Believers wearing masks, at least assume they are when I see them."

yup, very few, but same here, a badge of Allegiance to the Party.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2025 05:30 AM (Cjt/F)

47 Congratulations, Different Nic. Be sure to do something fun for your first week of freedom!

Because of her genealogy research, Linda wanted to drive to a town in the SW part of the state -- she said some of my ancestors came from there. Or lived there, or ate ice cream there; something like that. So off we went. A pleasant day trip, if hot (the first week of April here is already insufferable).

Think of something you've wanted to do on a weekday for a while, and just do it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 05:31 AM (wzUl9)

48 >>> It's 'R' day!!!!

Congratulations!

Posted by: fluffy at December 12, 2025 05:32 AM (AN2gy)

49 Be sure to do something fun for your first week of freedom!

I'm going to drive halfway across the country and back. And see my youngest graduate college.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 05:33 AM (ExV1e)

50 I watched a long video interview with DHH yesterday. (He wrote that ebook software). He was funny and passionate about computers, definitely not s Nazi. I was going to say there were idiots whining in the comments about bloat in Omarchy, but whining in the comments is what they do. Why aren't people willing to spend several weeks tweaking how their setup looks? Dunno, maybr those people have a life where they do something besides stare at a screen.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:34 AM (+mUZM)

51 Below freezing, I won't be happy until May
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 05:34 AM (Ia/+0)

52 Cool this am, 54 F. with almost no wind. Good workout conditions.

Stirling once again displayed the little mealtime clock in his head today by jumping up on the bed at *exactly* four o'clock. He doesn't get any chow until five, but he figures there's nothing like being early. Little gray Dagny is lounging on a chair at the table, being quiet and patient, while he paces around and plays with one of his toys. She plays too, but usually *after* she eats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 05:35 AM (wzUl9)

53 G'morning, all!
, so will wait till later to do the morning walk.

30 degrees out

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 12, 2025 05:39 AM (Ytdv9)

54 54F would be nice.
It's 34 right now here.

High of around 61 today, though, so there's that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 05:40 AM (6ydKt)

55 29 here, high today of 44. It was 70 yesterday. These cold snaps just blow right through here.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:42 AM (+mUZM)

56 So while trying to lay groundwork for a home media streaming set-up, I decided to move up to mesh wi-fi.

Had a chance to pick up two three-packs of the tp-link Deco X60's for around $250.00

Using the home's cat-5 ethernet for back-haul, stuff seems to flow rather well.

Lots of little issues that have been plaguing the wifi seem to have gone away, so all in all....glad I did it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 12, 2025 05:43 AM (Ytdv9)

57 And that's the Billy Idol song "it's a nice day for a warm cardigan", right??

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:43 AM (+mUZM)

58 Very belated BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2025 05:45 AM (copfg)

59 1 degree below zero here ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2025 05:45 AM (Cjt/F)

60 And I did find one ethernet cable that when installing it on top of the baseboard, I managed to shoot a staple and short two of the pairs.

Fixing that sped things up as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 12, 2025 05:45 AM (Ytdv9)

61 And as many of you know, I have a real problem with Governor Wes Moore (D), of Maryland.

Seems hi has more problems with his ever changing life history.

https://tinyurl.com/2tyr4s3h

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 12, 2025 05:47 AM (Ytdv9)

62 On the local Fox outlet, stories about the new "Catahoula Crunch," the crackdown by ICE, abound. Employers are worrying about their employees who are on work permits. Well, geniuses, if you'd hired Americans to start with, you wouldn't have anything to worry about, now would you?

I wonder if faculty, and especially staff, at universities are being checked on and sometimes rounded up. My former department was determined to be "diverse," and they continually hired foreign Ph.D.s who always required all sorts of visa paperwork and huge payments to the Feds. I muttered under my breath, "You wouldn't have this problem if you hired an American Ph.D.," but I knew no one would listen to me.

I got in trouble one time because Facilities sent three workers to repair my boss's office ceiling who did not speak any English -- not the usual crowd. I asked their office politely if they could send someone who did, so we could communicate. Some Karen over there complained -- not to me, but behind my back to my boss. He was forced to warn me about "such comments."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 05:48 AM (wzUl9)

63 I'm getting the following message from your "Musical Interlude": "The connection is blocked because it was initiated by a public page to connect to devices or servers on your local network."

I'm not sure what the malware is trying to do, but it needs to stop.

Posted by: SDN at December 12, 2025 05:49 AM (til9l)

64 22deg and an 'ice storm' warning. It could get bad, but most of these weather forecasts are bogus. When commuting over 100 miles, I've encountered unexpected ice and heavy fog on a regular basis.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 05:51 AM (1zOXE)

65 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 12, 2025 05:52 AM (2Ez/1)

66 A seasonal flu is making its way through many of my acquaintances.

One "fine gentleman" wore a mask last night to a meeting. Sheesh.

Fine. No handshakes.

One good friend couldn't make the meeting. Flu. Vaccinated.

I don't trust flu shots anymore either.

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 05:54 AM (W7XSX)

67 This is supposed to be a nasty storm in some areas. But it is moving right on through.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:56 AM (+mUZM)

68 We'll have mid-70s as highs today and tomorrow -- ugly for December -- a chill Sunday through Wed., then back up to the 70s again by Thursday.

I'd better check and air up the tires on the Buick ahead of the cooldown on Sunday, so they will still be at a proper fill when the temp drops. Soon, too, I need to buy the oil and filter for the next six months. I hate to waste oil -- the little meter in the instrument panel says there is still 40% oil life left after six months, and it is synthetic oil. It can go longer. But I also hate to go beyond six months on any fill.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 05:57 AM (wzUl9)

69 67 storm ... is moving right on through.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:56 AM (+mUZM)

hooray!

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 05:58 AM (RuTUS)

70 Had a chance to pick up two three-packs of the tp-link Deco X60's for around $250.00

Using the home's cat-5 ethernet for back-haul, stuff seems to flow rather well.

Lots of little issues that have been plaguing the wifi seem to have gone away, so all in all....glad I did it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 12, 2025 05:43 AM (Ytdv9)

I've got a pair of Deco 6E routers, one on each end of the house.
They've been working great for about 6 months now.

Got much better speeds than with the AT&T Extender I was forced to upgrade to and has now been returned.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:01 AM (6ydKt)

71 Uh, Wolfus, synthetic oil will last years. Changing it at six months does not seem prudent to me.

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:02 AM (W7XSX)

72 “ …. most people and then a smaller number of people who are total dickheads”

In my more uncharitable moments I’ve questioned that - it’s a common refrain of course that nobody disputes e.g,, “the vast majority of people are good, but blah blah…” Are we really sure about that?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 06:05 AM (OtFdX)

73
I have never really adjusted to the time change. I've been waking up at 3:30 or 4:00 every morning aware that I'm not getting back to sleep, so I may as well get up. I go to bed around 10:30 and I'm getting 5 or 6 hours of sleep. I don't feel tired during the day, but by afternoon I want to take a nap.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 06:06 AM (tgvbd)

74 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: THERE NOW REMAINS ONE FINAL QUESTION: HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY...OR NICE?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 12, 2025 06:07 AM (E7xNt)

75 Uh, Wolfus, synthetic oil will last years. Changing it at six months does not seem prudent to me.
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025

***
It's an easy marker for me to remember. And usually at six months the oil life is down to 20-25% with the driving I do here. It's higher than usual this time because of my 2000-mile trip to Indiana in Sept.

I'm using Walmart's own Supertech brand, so I'm not throwing too much money away. If I were running Mobil 1 or Castrol synthetic, I'd need to go longer. But an eight-month or nine-mont interval is harder for me to remember.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2025 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

76 We used those tplink mesh routers where I used to work. They seem to work pretty well.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 06:08 AM (+mUZM)

77 "Grandma stand " brings one connection at a time:

https://tinyurl.com/2kyfckkt

Sunny Skyz site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 06:09 AM (ZeH0U)

78 I’ve questioned that - it’s a common refrain of course that nobody disputes e.g,, “the vast majority of people are good, but blah blah…” Are we really sure about that?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 06:05 AM (OtFdX)

It's become an axiom of mine that humans are universally loathsome, but fortunately it's only a relative few who truly enjoy being loathsome and elevate it into an art form.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 06:10 AM (Vq1pX)

79 Gute Nacht, alle zusammen 😴

Posted by: clarence at December 12, 2025 06:10 AM (JwHY3)

80 I don't trust flu shots anymore either.

Though the water temperatures make it uninviting Right Now, I've discovered that regular swimming at local lakes and exposed to whatever drains into them makes for a proper wide spectrum inoculation to whatever might go around.

That, and daytime walks for the Vitamin D; haven't had flu in well over a decade.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:10 AM (nAS9C)

81
It's become an axiom of mine that humans are universally loathsome...

Is that you John Calvin?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:11 AM (PVBkQ)

82 . I don't feel tired during the day, but by afternoon I want to take a nap.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2025 06:06 AM (tgvbd)

I've been working on that same sleep schedule for about a year or two now, and i feel like a champ. Used to be on a more traditional 12AM-7AM sleep time, and do the whole five minute mad dash panic to get ready for work. Now i got time to breathe and relax before going in.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 06:13 AM (Vq1pX)

83 >>>I have never really adjusted to the time change. I've been waking up at 3:30 or 4:00 every morning aware that I'm not getting back to sleep, so I may as well get up. I go to bed around 10:30 and I'm getting 5 or 6 hours of sleep. I don't feel tired during the day, but by afternoon I want to take a nap.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

>The gastrointestinal system is on its own regular time schedule. Like it or not, this is a good thing. Some evenings of slumber are longer but short can be good too.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 06:16 AM (1zOXE)

84 , “the vast majority of people are good, but blah blah…”

According to Mimetic Theory, people are only as good as their culture.

If your culture is fine with wholesale corruption and rape, then if you are corrupt and rape strangers at knife point, then you are not "bad" - as long as you make justifications for your actions according to your culture.

That is probably why the Globalists want to destroy the WASP ethics and moral structure by flooding the West with alien cultures that often are fully incompatible with the predominant culture.

From God's perspective, we are all condemnable and not a thing we do is Good.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:17 AM (+4Cf6)

85 I sometimes think of my Grandfather and what he thought about time change. He was a farmer all his life. He could tell time by looking where the sun was at on a certain day. He said they can change the time if they want to but they will come back to my time eventually. Well, he was right.

Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 06:18 AM (G1OIb)

86 He could tell time by looking where the sun was at on a certain day.

Sundials, what kind of sorcery are they?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:19 AM (+4Cf6)

87 I found that if i fight it and try to force sleep when my meat suit says "boooo sleep, yayyyy awake", I'm a groggy mess the entire next day. If i just get up at 2:00 AM and make some coffee and do some reading or knitting for a couple hours, I'm in much better shape.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 06:21 AM (Vq1pX)

88 Morning peeps.

It snowed last night, so this morning will be chaos on the roads.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 06:23 AM (NwnyJ)

89 I used to do that, when someone would ask “What time is it?”

Put my best farmer face on (probably not very convincing) squint at the Sun, “Oh, I reckon it’s gettin’ on to about 3:30”. Sadly, with the advent of digital clocks everywhere on everything, plus cell phones, nobody asks that any longer.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 06:31 AM (OtFdX)

90 You have to confirm that the oil really *wants* to change.

Posted by: Ivy League Woke Psychiatrist at December 12, 2025 06:31 AM (OXYBr)

91 You have been successful keeping the old Buick alive and well, so keep up the good work.

I don't change my own oil. The hassle of getting rid of it property, etc. I have a sticker on the inside of my windshield to remind me. The oil change dudes/dudettes want me to see them every 6 months, but I just don't put that many miles on the cars to justify that.

The maker says 7,500 miles or more. When did changing it every 3,000 miles become a thing?

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:32 AM (W7XSX)

92 57 And that's the Billy Idol song "it's a nice day for a warm cardigan", right??
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 12, 2025 05:43 AM (+mUZM)

That what I always told Daddy.

Posted by: Amy Carter, Presidential Advisor at December 12, 2025 06:33 AM (OXYBr)

93 Billy Idol at 6:30

That shakes out the cobwebs

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 06:33 AM (6C06J)

94 I don't change my own oil. The hassle of getting rid of it property, etc.

That is why the city thoughtfully provides storm drains.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:34 AM (kHd4y)

95 One where Billy Idol married his sidtrr?

Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 06:34 AM (o2ZRX)

96 Though the water temperatures make it uninviting Right Now, I've discovered that regular swimming at local lakes and exposed to whatever drains into them makes for a proper wide spectrum inoculation to whatever might go around.

Attend your local MoMe. Chances are decent at least one attendee will have come to Texas and we get all the germs from everywhere in the country together for a party. Ain't no one died yet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 06:34 AM (ExV1e)

97 When did changing it every 3,000 miles become a thing?
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:32 AM (W7XSX)

The days of conventional dinosaur juice and sloppier engine tolerances.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 06:35 AM (Vq1pX)

98 87 I found that if i fight it and try to force sleep when my meat suit says "boooo sleep, yayyyy awake", I'm a groggy mess the entire next day. If i just get up at 2:00 AM and make some coffee and do some reading or knitting for a couple hours, I'm in much better shape.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 06:21 AM (Vq1pX)

Not too long ago a lot of people had two sleeps, known as Biphasic Sleep.
First Sleep from around 7 or 8 p.m. to around midnight.
Then wake up and some activity for a few hours.
Second Sleep from around 3 or 4 to daybreak.

"Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases"
https://youtu.be/DKBXFfEPJyg

That's just the first video I landed on.
There is a lot of info out there on it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 06:35 AM (6ydKt)

99 @88/Martini Farmer: "It snowed last night, so this morning will be chaos on the roads."

Set to "Riders on the Storm" by The Doors.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 12, 2025 06:35 AM (O7YUW)

100 That is why the city thoughtfully provides storm drains.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:34 AM (kHd4y)

- EMPTIES DIRECTLY TO WATERWAY -

"Oh, well that's convenient, then!"

*glug*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 06:36 AM (Vq1pX)

101 Sadly, with the advent of digital clocks everywhere on everything, plus cell phones, nobody asks that any longer.

Old people still wear clock bracelets.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:37 AM (+4Cf6)

102 91 You have been successful keeping the old Buick alive and well, so keep up the good work.

I don't change my own oil. The hassle of getting rid of it property, etc. I have a sticker on the inside of my windshield to remind me. The oil change dudes/dudettes want me to see them every 6 months, but I just don't put that many miles on the cars to justify that.

The maker says 7,500 miles or more. When did changing it every 3,000 miles become a thing?
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:32 AM
When cranks ran in lead babbitt.

Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 06:37 AM (o2ZRX)

103 As I was waking up, I did ask the Lord "1%? Are only 1% saved? 1% of all humanity? 1% of the Christians? 1% of the Catholics? Did you really suffer so much just for 1%?"

Culture is really important. A bad culture is really hard for a pagan to overcome.

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:37 AM (W7XSX)

104 m is asleep at the wheel.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 12, 2025 06:37 AM (O7YUW)

105 "Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases"

huh, thought it was just me ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2025 06:37 AM (Cjt/F)

106 While I’m an original card carrying member of preventive maintenance club, the rational thing here if you’re concerned would be to send off a sample to an oil analysis firm. Lots of short trips aren’t good. It’s important for the engine (and exhaust system) to reach normal operating temperature. This takes a while.

The old duffers who drive 1/2 mile every morning to the coffee club always needed a new muffler, because they would rust out right away.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 06:39 AM (OtFdX)

107 That is why the city thoughtfully provides storm drains.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:34 AM (kHd4y)

- EMPTIES DIRECTLY TO WATERWAY -

I challenge you to walk through a parking lot and notice the vast amount of oil drippings all over the pavement. Tell me where does the new additions go during a rain?

That is why they say to drive extra careful on the first rain after a dry spell because the rain floats the oil out of the pavement and the roads are extraordinarily slick.

So where does the oil go?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:40 AM (+4Cf6)

108 Tyler Robinson seems to be unrepentant.

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:40 AM (W7XSX)

109 Why are we owed some kind of grace or salvation? Why do we even think it's monstrous for 1% or even less of humanity to "make it", in whatever sense that is meant?

We think it because we are perfect, we are good, we aren't a bad person, and everyone else is a person too, so if they're all eschatologically boned, then so are we. And gosh darn it that's just not acceptable.

You're not allowed to do that, God. It's unfair.... we say. Without a hint of irony.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 06:42 AM (Vq1pX)

110 >>>As I was waking up, I did ask the Lord "1%? Are only 1% saved? 1% of all humanity? 1% of the Christians? 1% of the Catholics? Did you really suffer so much just for 1%?"

Culture is really important. A bad culture is really hard for a pagan to overcome.

Posted by: no one

>Do you have a reading comprehension disability? Everybody is saved if you live a life of giving, forgiveness and humility.

Strive to be better.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 06:43 AM (1zOXE)

111 "Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases"

My wife has perfected the model of sleeping between one and fourteen times per day for varying lengths of time and at random intervals.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 06:43 AM (ExV1e)

112 I am not going down the heresy rabbit hole. Grace is a gift.

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:44 AM (W7XSX)

113 Asleep At The Wheel. Been a long time since I listened to them. Starting now....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 06:45 AM (rNGRC)

114 112 I am not going down the heresy rabbit hole. Grace is a gift.
Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:44 AM (W7XSX)

"Oh thanks it's perfect how did you know.... uh, you kept the receipt, right?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 06:46 AM (Vq1pX)

115 Modern cars and trucks are a lot better about drips and drabs. Those with long memories can recall all the roads and highways had a black sludge line of congealed grease and oil running right down the center. If you look at photos from the “good old days” you’ll see this.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 12, 2025 06:46 AM (OtFdX)

116 I like the idea of two four hour sleep stretches. It accords with what so often is true for me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 06:47 AM (rNGRC)

117 But the heavenly virtues are not natural. We who have grace (faith, hope, and charity) should not assume that everyone else has it too. They don't. They think we are fools.

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:48 AM (W7XSX)

118 "...you kept the receipt, right?"

Indeed. I have both my Baptismal and my Confirmation certificates.

Posted by: no one at December 12, 2025 06:50 AM (W7XSX)

119 Do you have a reading comprehension disability? Everybody is saved if you live a life of giving, forgiveness and humility.

I hope that you are being sarcastic, because Works Righteousness is a dead letter.

So the Almighty God is just going to accept whatever ad hoc quid pro quos you toss up?

"OK God, My car needs replacement. If I quit beating my wife, then you should provide a new Lexus."

And from a ledger standpoint, how much "humility" overcomes the sin of telling a lie, or coveting the neighbor's car, or not putting in a full day's of work for your employer?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:50 AM (nCgQz)

120 But the heavenly virtues are not natural.

Insert sermon from Galatians 5

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:51 AM (nCgQz)

121
Well, that was cool. An almost perfect pass of the ISS overhead here starting at 6:34 AM and lasting about 7 mins. It popped up over the horizon to the SW, and arced pretty high overhead setting to the NE. It was quite bright, sun to the east right at the beginning of nautical twilight here.

And to top of it, saw a meteor as well while watching the sky. And as I type this, the thing is already close to Britain by now. When it first popped up over the horizon, it was just over the Gulf of America.

It was just about perfect alignment for viewing here.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 06:52 AM (w6EFb)

122 I like the idea of two four hour sleep stretches. It accords with what so often is true for me.

Most health experts recommend doing them back-to-back.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:52 AM (rgGn5)

123 It’s Friday, traditional pay day. That’s why I got up this morning. I was sleeping just fine.

Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 06:52 AM (o2ZRX)

124 Most health experts recommend doing them back-to-back.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:52 AM (rgGn5)

Most health experts recommend being on your 114th covid booster by now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 06:54 AM (ExV1e)

125 It’s Friday, traditional pay day. That’s why I got up this morning. I was sleeping just fine.
Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 06:52 AM (o2ZRX)

I usually get up because I have to pee.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 06:55 AM (ExV1e)

126 >>>And from a ledger standpoint, how much "humility" overcomes the sin of telling a lie, or coveting the neighbor's car, or not putting in a full day's of work for your employer?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Whoa! Someone in a post above mentioned grace. It's not that far out of reach.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 06:55 AM (1zOXE)

127 Well, that was cool. An almost perfect pass of the ISS overhead here starting at 6:34 AM and lasting about 7 mins. It popped up over the horizon to the SW, and arced pretty high overhead setting to the NE. It was quite bright, sun to the east right at the beginning of nautical twilight here.

You are so fortunate to see that. A number of years ago, right at the time of maximum satellite flare in the morning, I witnessed the ISS separating from the space shuttle overhead.

I was expecting it so was out there looking for it and was not disappointed. It was kind of sad that there were also a number of people walking their dogs or just walking / running and not a one stopped to look overhead even when they saw me standing there staring up into space.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:55 AM (rgGn5)

128 Whoa! Someone in a post above mentioned grace. It's not that far out of reach.

Grace means unmerited favor and is extended to the Elect (insert Potter's Freedom sermon).

If you trade merit for grace, it isn't grace its a transaction.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 12, 2025 06:57 AM (/TiS1)

129 > Well, that was cool. An almost perfect pass of the ISS overhead here starting at 6:34 AM and lasting about 7 mins.
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Years ago we saw the space shuttle and the ISS pass overhead. We were in California at the time. Happened out over Monterey Bay.

I'll periodically see those Starlink "trains" here in KY. Not so much lately as it's been miserably cold and cloudy here for weeks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2025 06:57 AM (NwnyJ)

130 ...a relative few who truly enjoy being loathsome and elevate it into an art form.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 06:10 AM (Vq1pX)

Ah...I see you have met my older sister.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 07:01 AM (n9ltV)

131 That Pogo - Picard-Data video that m posted is strangely fascinating.
Even the music is growing on me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 07:02 AM (6ydKt)

132
I got the "Spot the station" app for the stupid phone. They used to have a website for that, but it's defunct, app only now. It's the best for accurate predictions, as they update the orbital elements all the time. Stellarium is generally pretty good, but the orbital elements sometimes won't update fast enough, especially after boosts and other maneuvers they do from time to time.

I was able to see a good pass a few weeks ago on the evening side. There, it passed into earth's shadow a little bit before halfway through the arc overhead. Unlike small satellites which wink out quickly, the ISS is big and reflective enough that it did a slow fade, turning red (red sunlight through the atmosphere, just like a sunset on the ground) before winking out. That was pretty cool.

BUt I see the morning side is the best when the alignment and terminator are just right. You can see the whole pass with the thing lit up the whole time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 07:06 AM (w6EFb)

133 There's a couple things that occur to me in any kind of approach to all the faith/works/grace/etc armchair theology stuff.

1) You Don't Matter. You're not the center of the universe. Your particular salvation or damnation makes no difference to the workings of the rest of the cosmos.
2) You Are Not In Charge. Any thoughts our little neurons squirt out has no bearing on what is or what must be. It can be a fun exercise to think about stuff and see what we can figure out, but the stakes are Zero. We don't have any say in how any of it goes down, only in how we choose to live our lives before it does.
3) None of it matters if you don't have a solid prayer life and actually talk with the one who is in charge of the process. And if you *do* have that, then none of it matters because you'll already have your feet pretty firmly on the right path to do your job as a soul in a meat suit properly without fretting about the rules other people must follow.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 07:06 AM (Vq1pX)

134 >>>If you trade merit for grace, it isn't grace its a transaction.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

>No argument here.
Merit and grace aren't even part of the same discussion.

One is anchored in reality, the other is anchored in you mind and personal representation.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 07:07 AM (1zOXE)

135 Where is the grace of the employer when they layoff people because the profit margins are two percent off what they think it should be?

Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 07:08 AM (G1OIb)

136 I'm awake, but they just gave me a Tylenol and an oxycodone, so I may not be conscious too much longer 🤣🤣🤣 Will be seeing the surgical resident first, then Dr. Yopp will be by to see me around 8 or 9.

Apparently my liver is still intact, but I will be going home with an HAI pump. I will have to come up with a fun name for him - maybe call him "Fred". The medicine they will be putting in the pump is called FUDR - you KNOW we are going to be having fun with that acronym....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 12, 2025 07:09 AM (a9pSI)

137 Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 07:06 AM (Vq1pX)
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Well put.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2025 07:10 AM (fnAb4)

138 an oxycodone, so I may not be conscious too much longer 🤣🤣🤣 Will be seeing the surgical resident first, then Dr. Yopp will be by to see me around 8 or 9.

Apparently my liver is still intact, but I will be going home with an HAI pump. I will have to come up with a fun name for him - maybe call him "Fred". The medicine they will be putting in the pump is called FUDR - you KNOW we
are going to be having fun with that acronym....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 12, 2025 07:09 AM (a9pSI)
May you have some peaceful and restoring rest then. And may GOD hold you in his hands today and every day to come.
Amen

Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2025 07:12 AM (o2ZRX)

139 Hope it all turns out well for you Teresa.
Sounds like good news so far.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 12, 2025 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

140 Wow Teresa, good to see you posting and still plucky. Will continue to pray for your recovery.

Posted by: Fred G. Sanford. at December 12, 2025 07:15 AM (oftw2)

141 Thanks for the update, Teresa!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2025 07:15 AM (Cjt/F)

142 Ah...I see you have met my older sister.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2025 07:01 AM (n9ltV)

So you use the art thread to punish us as a proxy for getting back at your sister?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:16 AM (ExV1e)

143 The newsfeed said an "Andy Dick" revived after apparent overdose.

Who is this "Andy Dick" and why waste a good Narcan on it?

Posted by: Questions at December 12, 2025 07:16 AM (YyIMQ)

144 Good luck, Teresa. And you could always call him "Hai Karate"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 12, 2025 07:18 AM (WPL6O)

145 Who is this "Andy Dick" and why waste a good Narcan on it?
Posted by: Questions at December 12, 2025 07:16 AM (YyIMQ)

Andy Dick is the Andy Kauffman of narcotics overdoses.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 12, 2025 07:18 AM (Vq1pX)

146 Good morning morons

Thanks TiFW for checking in, a prayer for a speedy and complete recovery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 07:20 AM (9ipOP)

147 Apparently my liver is still intact, but I will be going home with an HAI pump. I will have to come up with a fun name for him - maybe call him "Fred". The medicine they will be putting in the pump is called FUDR - you KNOW we
are going to be having fun with that acronym....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 12, 2025 07:09 AM (a9pSI)

According to AI...

A hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) pump is a surgically implanted device, typically about the size of a hockey puck, placed under the skin in the abdomen to deliver high-dose chemotherapy directly to the liver via the hepatic artery.

-- Given that it's the size of a hockey puck, maybe name it Wayne in honor of Gretzky.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:20 AM (ExV1e)

148 So you use the art thread to punish us as a proxy for getting back at your sister?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It's not all offal. I think I remember a good painting several months ago, though it might have been on the other More Vibrant Art Thread.

Posted by: Mixed Up In My Dotage at December 12, 2025 07:21 AM (oftw2)

149 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2025 07:21 AM (ExV1e)

150 And now we get to start playing whack-a-mole with all of these pesky little tumors that didn't show up on the CT Scan or the MRI (we were told that it is not uncommon to find that once they go in).

The good news is that the pump is even MORE targeted than anything I have had before, and they can use much more medication without the worry of killing "healthy" tissue in the process.

I think the oxycodone may be kicking in now - see you guys on the other side...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 12, 2025 07:23 AM (U5cTn)

151 Hockey Puck in the abdomen beats an icepick in the forehead every time.

Posted by: Awl Or Nothing At Awl at December 12, 2025 07:24 AM (oftw2)

152 TIFW -
I'll start the bidding.
FUDR stands for For You, Dear.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 12, 2025 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)

153 Prayers for you , plucky TIFW. Thanks for checking in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2025 08:34 AM (looXz)

154 *Reddit is a screaming dumpster fire, but so is our government, and I can simply ignore Reddit if I choose. So I'm solidly on their side.*

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake. Reddit and the Australian government have a functionally identical definition of crimethink, so muzzling Reddit for the under-16 set is counterproductive for the bad guys. I hope the government prevails.

Posted by: Spartan at December 12, 2025 09:41 AM (y/uUW)

155 If Reddit gets off the under-16 list it's going to have a heap of other problems with its adult content coming under scrutiny.

In my experience (2nd account after I was foolish enough to link my socials to the 1st, never again) Reddit cannot survive without the adult sites propping it up. It doesn't police the NSFW tag in the same way that Discord does. (Microsoft understands lawsuits)

Posted by: Jon at December 12, 2025 12:41 PM (WMbOh)

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - December 11, 2025 [scampydog]

Welcome to the Thursday night ONT. Thank you for braving the traffic and holiday crowds to be here - the best place on the internet to spend your Thursday evening.

Been about a year since my first ONT post (with CBD patiently doing all the back end work - I figured it out eventually).

Your regular host, Doof, is in parts unknown - not saying he is on a secret mission, he will be back soon with a proper alibi.

Before we get started, please grab a snack and a second look at your therapy pamphlet.

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The year is almost over. Time for the fourth quarter, lurker roll call. Comment section is mostly bite free this evening. Let's hear from you lurkers.

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Lens flare pictures - occasionally chance deliver a beautiful shot. Here is a lovely one sent along by AoSHQ commenter, nurse ratched.

Nice collection of lens flare pictures here.

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Undergrounds - plenty of interesting and historical visits out there. Have you roamed any?

Dixia Cheng, Beijing, China. The whole communist, totalitarian side of this is fascinating. Build, deny, reveal, conceal, deny (again), obfuscate.

Built 1969 - 1979 as a bomb shelter - they were worried about the Soviets (how things change). It is beneath Beijing and has somewhere between 33 to 53 square miles of tunnels - near Tiananmen Square (Walz was not there). A decade or so of black market living quarters, eventually squashed by the government. Much of the system/network of tunnels is now sealed off and closed to the public.

The subterranean world of Dixia Cheng consists of a network of tunnels and chambers under Beijing that stretches across 33 square miles of underground catacombs. Also named the “Underground Great Wall” for its vastness and military purpose, the tunnel complex was dug by hand by local citizens throughout the 1970s to serve as a shelter during invasions, air raids, or nuclear attacks. At the height of its readiness, there were more than 90 entrances to the underground corridors which were hidden in the backs of homes and businesses.
Civilians seeking shelter from Soviet bombardments in the underground complex would have been safe from boredom as well as bombs. Classrooms were constructed for the children living in the underground city, and recreational amenities like a movie theater, barber shops, restaurants, and a roller skating rink were all awaiting a potential flood of refugees. Chambers in auxiliary tunnels held grain, weapons, and other supplies. The underground city also held sites for growing sunless crops like mushrooms and areas prepared for well drilling.

Pendleton, OR. Way back days Pendleton boasted a lot of bars, 18 brothels, and what is now an underground (sounds Moron worthy).

Pendleton used to be known as the entertainment capital of Eastern Oregon, and with thirty two bars and eighteen brothels, it's easy to see why this was a hot spot of the old west.

Another 37 undergrounds across the world.

How about some of those catacombs in Europe?

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ONT Relatable

Blame the distractingly attractive person you sat next to in Biology for your forgetfulness.

For anyone whose little(s) brought homework home expecting your help / decades old brilliance: which subjects betrayed you? Logarithms perhaps? Prompting a response of, "I'll drop you off early tomorrow. Go meet with your teacher."

Logarithms. This helps.

Simple, yet amusing.

A mathematician explains the uniqueness of the number 6174 pic.twitter.com/lxgJvypaCO
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) November 18, 2025

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Leaning into the education topic

A few links for your perusal and feedback.

Plyler v. Doe. A lot of left leaning articles out there.

Send this decision back up the ladder.

At least one state is currently proposing action to limit undocumented students’ access to a free, public education. Recent efforts to challenge Plyler in five other states have been paused or failed, according to an Education Week analysis. At least one state has enacted protections of this right.

Keep poking.

Dear Anonymous Professor:
You are profoundly detached from the real issues affecting us, our families, our country, and the world today.

Pour a drink. This will validate what makes you grumpy. Better reading is deeper in the article. Bookmark for later if interested.

Across a large swath of academe, teaching is perceived as a burden to be endured. Faculty bemoan heavy teaching loads. Prized faculty teach light loads, with courses “bought out” by research grants or fellowships. (Deans and department chairs similarly negotiate for reduced teaching loads.) In short, a lighter teaching load is a badge of professional success.

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This administration continues to savage the legacy media. What's not to love about that?

The White House page of Media Offender of the Week. Scroll to the bottom of the page. From there you can click the various page numbers. They're calling out: The Claim, publication, reporter, and category.

THE OFFENSE
The Washington Post’s Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima published an article from two unnamed sources claiming Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a Joint Special Operations commander to “kill everybody” during an anti-terrorist operation in the Caribbean Sea.

THE TRUTH
The Department of War killed 11 narco-terrorists in a coordinated strike designed to “kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people.” This attack was the first in a series of lethal kinetic strikes against Designated Terrorist Organizations. The Washington Post published this unsubstantiated claim in an attempt to discredit the United States’ warfighters and inflame anti-American sentiment.

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Spent entirely too much time on this section. What a rabbit hole.

A four act musical tour. So many songs are written around love and relationships - could link a hundred for each act. Let's take a tour through the highs, lows, and the magic of it. Use link shortener if pasting songs in comments - don't blow out the margins!

Sparks Fly. Music and new love? The first few weeks were always exciting. Pure dopamine, everything electric.

Slow Hands - Niall Horan

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Red Flag Phase. After a few weeks, sometimes things didn't go as planned. Hints that perfection may not be grounded. Eyebrow raising moments.

Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash

Sex as a Weapon - Pat Benatar

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The Real Thing.Time and making it past phase two comes the, "Holy crap, this might be the real thing phase!"

Still the One - Orleans

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

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And when things really didn't go well.

She Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd

Ex's and Oh's - Elle King

Was going to add Buck Cherry here. Reconsidered.

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Silly season. Why not.

You'll find me at house #2...🎶😊

You? pic.twitter.com/Ji4swxrWQT
— Amy (@20th_Centurygal) November 29, 2025

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The jesters and confused ones are always trying to box in the patriot.

How did Nutcrackers Become a Christmas Tradition?

Meet Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner

Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner (1844-1923), hailing from the quaint town of Seiffen in the Ore Mountains of Germany, is known worldwide as the “Father of the Nutcracker.” For good reason, as he created the world’s first mass-produced nutcracker around 1870 with a water-powered lathe, revolutionizing the craft and saving himself from the laborious task of carving each statue by hand.

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Christmas traditions. Plenty in the scampyhouse. Favorite: Kids can get after their stocking whenever they awake. The presents wait until the cinny rolls are baked and mom has a cup of coffee. What are your traditions, Horde?

Track Santa
Come Christmas Eve, it's time to track Santa Claus as he delivers presents! Kiddos can use a computer or phone to follow Santa's journey from the North Pole, thanks to the free tracker from NORAD. The suspense is just magical!

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This ONT brought to you by: Wrapping presents.

Madonna Cones picture taken from elsewhere - unknown who to credit

More wrapping fails.

Tip of the cap.

⚠️ Warning. This is not a drill. pic.twitter.com/wi1Q9IAesi
— ☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ (@LuckyMcGee) December 6, 2025

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Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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1 Girth!

Posted by: Plumbers at December 11, 2025 10:00 PM (DsA2n)

2 Good Evening

Posted by: French Jeton at December 11, 2025 10:00 PM (j0T5y)

3 Hey, Scampy!

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:01 PM (77rzZ)

4 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:01 PM (zZu0s)

5 Evening, Bulg.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (41CYW)

6 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (lUFok)

7
Aerosmith?

Worst Lyrics in any band. Ever.

All their songs have the stupidest lyrics.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:05 PM (K+a/1)

8 Scampy! Thank you for this. I love the norad tracker. To this day, I make all 3 of my kiddos check in on it with me. I am the most excited. You can move him around and see different angles! It’s great!

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

9
That idiot Steven Tyler just says random words, and, what's worse, is they barely rhyme.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (K+a/1)

10 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (C26rB)

11 The Washington Post’s Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima published an article from two unnamed sources claiming Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a Joint Special Operations commander to “kill everybody” during an anti-terrorist operation in the Caribbean Sea.

Even if this had been verbatim what he said, I don't have a problem with it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (lUFok)

12 Chicken in a Biscuit are really underrated crackers. I used them as soup crackers and they were great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:07 PM (zZu0s)

13 Evening all!

Posted by: caf at December 11, 2025 10:07 PM (qS/Xm)

14 Doggo! Seiffen? That is a favorite spot for TRex and I. Amazing part of the world, modernized but not totally.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 11, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

15 Good evening Horde and thank you Doggo!

Posted by: TRex - nutcracker dino says ouch! at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

16 Don't think any of those house parties would have an upright bass so I'll just stay here, thanks.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (3nLb4)

17
Meanwhile, the great Motorhead is with the Judas Priest fags....

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (K+a/1)

18 All their songs have the stupidest lyrics.

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:05 PM (K+a/1)

Hole in My Soul is underrated.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (zZu0s)

19
Uh, can you repeat all that?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (tgvbd)

20
People like different things.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 10:09 PM (3ek7K)

21 Silly season. Why not.

House #3 will have the best music, overall.

Though the music at #1 is pretty close.

AC/DC and Journey overwhelm the good bands at house #2.

But most of the chicks are at houses #2 and #4, so I may have to re-think my priorities.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 10:10 PM (nhCoE)

22
Even if this had been verbatim what he said, I don't have a problem with it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (lUFok)

_________

*KABOOOOM!!!*

"You have the right to remain silent..."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 10:10 PM (tgvbd)

23 Evening, all.

Miss Linda came over, I fed her (two eggs, some toast and butter). She spent an hour or two curled around her phone, nothing new there, and announced at eight that she needed to go home. I exhorted her to take some meds for her cold and to be sure to eat something tomorrow morning.

She hates taking even small pills, has an almost indetectable pulse, can't tell me what kind of pain she has when she complains of one, and refuses to eat when she is sick. If I were a doctor and had a bunch of patients as difficult to deal with, I'd be thinking about changing careers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:11 PM (wzUl9)

24 Sorry I'm late, my unicycle needed its handlebars re-aligned.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (rk+24)

25 I am in music group #2, except please remove Rush, KISS, Queen and BOC

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

26 People like different things.

Did you miss the last thread? This is not allowed. Everyone must like what I like or they are wrong if not actually unfit to live in polite society.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (3nLb4)

27 14 Doggo! Seiffen? That is a favorite spot for TRex and I. Amazing part of the world, modernized but not totally.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Cool! Was interesting reading over here - not visited.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (41CYW)

28
Oddbob,

Lol!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (3ek7K)

29 I hope the northwest morons are staying dry in the face of the flooding that I hear is happening.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (VmDLh)

30 Doggo!🐕
No.2 house party for me...

Back to content - it looks mighty girthy!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (5lbLe)

31 Rock Party #2.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (rk+24)

32 That charcuterie board needs a pimento, artfully placed

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (rbvCR)

33
Everyone must like what I like or they are wrong if not actually unfit to live in polite society.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (3nLb4)

________

My Xyler is allergic to peanuts, so nobody can have peanuts.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 10:14 PM (tgvbd)

34 Did you miss the last thread? This is not allowed. Everyone must like what I like or they are wrong if not actually unfit to live in polite society.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (3nLb4)

Exactly. Good day, Mr Poopy Head!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

35
Ugh, forecast has another stupid arctic blast coming down here. Forecast low of 17F for Sunday-Monday morning.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 10:14 PM (w6EFb)

36 For the last one, you gotta click through to see the uncropped picture for it make sense.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:14 PM (3nLb4)

37 Wolfus, best wishes for Linda.

Where does she stand on the move to Indiana?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (77rzZ)

38 Hiya Scampy! Thank you for the ONT.
On a more serious note, with regard to the top pic.
Please don't post anymore photos of my house.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (TfUTr)

39 A huge underground complex for continuity of government was secretly (kinda) built under the Greenbrier in Virginia. Some of the contractors at the time realized something was up due to insane quantities of concrete and re-bar being ordered, far in excess than would be required for remodeling or renovation.

It has a huge blastproof reinforced vault like door, underground house chambers, cafeteria, medical facilities, sleeping quarters, the whole nine yards for congress to continue operating.

What was strange was some clown reporter for a magazine revealed the existence of the facility, and that was the end of it, gazillions of dollars wasted. They should have sent that fucker to prison for 80 years just on general principles.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (OtFdX)

40 Liked the Christmas wrapping fails. My favorite is the one that with Happy Birthday paper and "Jesus" written with a black sharpie on the paper beneath "Happy Birthday."

Posted by: TRex - wrapping dino, not rapping dino at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

41 I wouldn't be interested in going to any of the four rock/metal house parties. Well, okay, when I was twenty, and was fairly sure there'd be booze and good-looking girls there (both pretty much a lock, I know).

Shatteringly loud rhythmic noise (note I don't say "music") and men screaming into a microphone as if being tortured have never been a magnet for me without a lot of other attractions, such as those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (wzUl9)

42

House #2

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 10:16 PM (pkeXY)

43 Underground cities.
Nice collection there. I have to add Underground Seattle, The Portland, OR Shanghai Tunnels and the secret cave fortifications inside Mt Gibraltar.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 11, 2025 10:16 PM (aNX55)

44 IF I could pick the songs, I'd be at House Party #2.

But otherwise there would be FAR too many crappy post-1978 Aerosmith songs, cheesy Boston love songs, AC/DC songs that are way overplayed (like Thunderstruck) and lacking in the deeper cuts by Kiss and the great stuff from the Ace Frehley era and instead propped up by Kiss stuff that sucked.

Put me at House Party #1. And whatever idiot referred to Judas Priest in a derogatory manner never owned British Steel or Stained Class or Screaming for Vengeance or Killing Machine or Point of Entry. Metal circles would laugh you out of their presence.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:16 PM (Cjcf6)

45 House #2. Put the Led Zep on loop.

The stacked presents was a good one.

Posted by: clarence at December 11, 2025 10:17 PM (JwHY3)

46 I'll be out the in the back forty with Del McCoury, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Sam Bush, Sierra Hull, and Billy Strings, who will be closing the show and inviting everybody back on stage for the last several numbers.

Yee haw.

Posted by: huerfano at December 11, 2025 10:17 PM (98kQX)

47 38 Hiya Scampy! Thank you for the ONT.
On a more serious note, with regard to the top pic.
Please don't post anymore photos of my house.
Posted by: Some Rat
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*Checks top pic* So my dad knew where you lived (his photography)? Cool!

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:17 PM (41CYW)

48 I apologize again for my querulousness on the previous thread.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)

49 Wolfus, best wishes for Linda.

Where does she stand on the move to Indiana?
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025

***
I haven't brought it up recently. First there was T-giving, then her birthday, and Xmas is coming. She no doubt is hoping I've changed my mind despite my frequent comments that "I hate this place." I'm hoping against hope and without evidence that she has changed hers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (wzUl9)

50 Happy-ish Thursday Evening …

Marvelously wrapped ONT!

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Planes Be Not Yet Circling the House Critic . . . at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (3ZUWJ)

51 Undergound Seattle was in the second Night Stalker movie.

Atlanta had an undergound scene off and on for years.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (pkeXY)

52 Actually any of the houses would be all right because none of them have:

-fucking Green Day
-Counting fucking Crowes
-Cranberries or Natalie Merchant

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (zZu0s)

53 I hope the northwest morons are staying dry in the face of the flooding that I hear is happening.
Posted by: Cybersmythe

Appreciate that, considering it's the worst flooding in the freaking history of the world.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (TfUTr)

54 9
That idiot Steven Tyler just says random words, and, what's worse, is they barely rhyme.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (K+a/1)

He sired Liv Tyler into this world. He can shout scatological beat poetry to bongos and he belongs in a Hall of Fame somewhere.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (pIfcn)

55
Saying sorry is for homos & Hot Air.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (K+a/1)

Posted by:
at December 11, 2025 10:19 PM (DF+jF)

57 52 Actually any of the houses would be all right because none of them have:

-fucking Green Day
-Counting fucking Crowes
-Cranberries or Natalie Merchant
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December

So don’t sing Zombie at the Christmas party?

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:19 PM (Q9G/L)

58 Man the rock/metal houses is a tough call. I'm probably mostly a House 1.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (31p00)

59
She was a good Elf, I guess.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (K+a/1)

60 Nice thread, scampydog.

Any idea what hill that is in the top photo?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (viF8m)

61 56 If you're lurking, that's the best lurker comment ever.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (41CYW)

62 Our Christmas tradition was that on Christmas Eve after supper my dad would take us on a drive to see people's Christmas lights. My mom would stay home to do the dishes. When we got back all the presents would be under the tree, because Santa snuck in while mom was doing the dishes.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

63 Chicken in a Biscuit are really underrated crackers. I used them as soup crackers and they were great.
——-

They used to be really good! I thought they ought to be illegal. I think they fried them, like so many things, back in the day, and then drenched them in chicken bouillon powder. I tried a box a while back and they are “baked” now, and have lost all their mojo.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (OtFdX)

64 Saying sorry is for homos & Hot Air.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (K+a/1)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

65 House #2, please.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (/rQlD)

66 Aerosmith?

Worst Lyrics in any band. Ever.

All their songs have the stupidest lyrics.

Prove me wrong.
-----

IF Aerosmith had retired after "Night In The Ruts", they'd be viewed as hard rock visionaries. Instead, they hung around and proved they weren't.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (Cjcf6)

67 49 Prayer up that you two may find agreement, Wolfus.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (77rzZ)

68 I’ll bet that 6174 story would work out really well on a first date.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (jr4TK)

69
Appreciate that, considering it's the worst flooding in the freaking history of the world.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (TfUTr)

________

Again? I thought you had some extreme atmospheric river last year that drowned everyone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (tgvbd)

70 GIRTHY!

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (C1NyB)

71 None of the houses qualify because none involve Fighting for your Right to Party. Without that fundamental right, none of the other house parties exist.

Posted by: TRex - dino gets no sleep till Brooklyn at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

72 She is in denial. She'll probably wait until literally the last minute and decide to go with you, which will completely mess your plans for leaving that day.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (W7XSX)

73 Wrapping paper should be for all occasions. Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy B-day, Get Well, Condolences, Happy Bar Mitzvah Irving, can all be written on the stupid paper. No one looks for more than a second, they tear it up and it goes in a garbage bag. Too much work for very little gain.

Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (oftw2)

74 today I heard "Last Chr---mas" for the first time this Holiday Season.
it was a cover. somehow it was even worse.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (gKWVE)

75 Liked the Christmas wrapping fails.

Some things are just plain hard to wrap. Apparently at this time of year, Amazon sends stuff in boxes with "To: / From:" printed on the side for the extra lazy among us.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:23 PM (3nLb4)

76 32 That charcuterie board needs a pimento, artfully placed
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (rbvCR)

It’s this kind of attention to detail that brings me back to this place night after night.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 11, 2025 10:24 PM (ZTJjv)

77 A mathematician explains the uniqueness of the number 6174 pic.twitter.com/lxgJvypaCO

There's also the uniqueness of 8675309. Ask Jenny.

Posted by: Tommy Tutone at December 11, 2025 10:24 PM (ynpvh)

78 Wandered in late, strolled through the content (which was too complicated for my tired old brain tonight), read the mighty eighteen comments so far. That's enough for me.🥱Think I'll go watch something somewhere. Or take a late nap. Don't y'all go being interesting to draw me back in, m'kay?

💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - all in due time, my dear, all in due time at December 11, 2025 10:24 PM (lfab9)

79 I would trade two Extreme Atmospheric Rivers for one Bomb Cyclone any day.

Posted by: Weather Or Not at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (oftw2)

80 Wrapping paper should be for all occasions. Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy B-day, Get Well, Condolences, Happy Bar Mitzvah Irving, can all be written on the stupid paper. No one looks for more than a second, they tear it up and it goes in a garbage bag. Too much work for very little gain.
Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight at December 11, 2025

***
I need to give my Christmas tip to my barber this weekend. He's the owner of the shop, so it's not appropriate for me to tip him on each visit, but I will slip him some $$$ in an envelope for Christmas. I suppose I ought to get a Christmas card and envelope to put it in?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (wzUl9)

81 Any idea what hill that is in the top photo?
Posted by: JackStraw
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I don't have it handy. Original file is on an external drive - dad took A LOT of pictures. Somewhere in the PNW is the best I can do this evening.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (41CYW)

82 *peeks in*
*resumes scheduled activity*

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (gd0qz)

83 3.14159 !

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (g47mK)

84 Even if this had been verbatim what he said, I don't have a problem with it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (lUFok)

I felt the same way about Osama bin Laden being killed because he "resisted arrest". And conveniently, we didn't have to bother with a trial, including a lot of whining from foreign and domestic liberals about his civil rights. He was shot resisting arrest, and buried at sea, so no one could prove otherwise.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:26 PM (0Htd1)

85 Again? I thought you had some extreme atmospheric river last year that drowned everyone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yep, funny how we and the entire Country get these "worst ever!" events every 5 years or so.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:26 PM (TfUTr)

86
Egad,

When I refresh the page I get the ads. So sick of the homos kissing. The really disgusting one is the fags kissing with the dog between them.

I feel bad for the dog.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 10:26 PM (3ek7K)

87 It was about -20°F for a about a week straight leading up to Christmas, I wrapped a big ass bottle of bourbon in Priority Mail stickers and left it in the box for the mailman. I heard him pick it up “woo, doggie!” he sez. It was the least I could do.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 10:27 PM (OtFdX)

88 Wow, so much content!

Thanks, Doggo!

*goes back to rabbit holes*

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (rdVOm)

89 56 If you're lurking, that's the best lurker comment ever.
Posted by: scampydog habitually complaining

better than constantly complaining/apologizing just to add to the commenter count.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (F3Dlr)

90 Evening again everyone, thx scampydog. Glad to see everyone survived the dachshund bombardment.
Still makes me say "huh?" when I remember Elle King is Rob Schneider's daughter.
Oh and #2.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (D+mpw)

91 Wrapping paper should be for all occasions. Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy B-day, Get Well, Condolences, Happy Bar Mitzvah Irving, can all be written on the stupid paper. No one looks for more than a second, they tear it up and it goes in a garbage bag. Too much work for very little gain.
Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight

Sunday comics are a fine fall back position.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (TfUTr)

92 Evening, Scampydog and ONT Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (npFr7)

93 3.14159 !
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025

***
I forget what year in school it was when they introduced us to pi. I think I was out sick that day, and came back the next day to find my classmates and teacher talking about baked Thanksgiving desserts. Took me a little while to get it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (wzUl9)

94 Sorry I'm late, my unicycle needed its handlebars re-aligned.
Posted by: tankdemon

I hope the chiropractor treated you well.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (nhCoE)

95 Things that go Bump in the Night - or in this case the garage. We have a 2 car detached garage. Workbench, tools, yard equipment, wife’s car stay there. We were in it last weekend while doing yard work, wife hadn’t had to go anywhere so neither of us has gone in for 2 or 3 days.
So I went in tonight, and everything is in order, except …. One of the brooms is on the other side of the garage, not like it fell but like it was tossed. But everything else is in order, nothing else was touched.
So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (jr4TK)

96 >>I don't have it handy. Original file is on an external drive - dad took A LOT of pictures. Somewhere in the PNW is the best I can do this evening.

He was a good photographer. It reminds me of the area around my folks old place in Vermont.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m)

97 I hate choices like the party thing. I like parts of all four.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 11, 2025 10:30 PM (0aYVJ)

98 There's also the uniqueness of 8675309. Ask Jenny.
-----

Jenny? I've got her number...

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:30 PM (Cjcf6)

99 Good evening morons en bedankt Hondo

Any report on Teresa in Fort Worth?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:31 PM (A0sqA)

100 But, if I had to narrow it down, #3.

Except Metallica. they have sucked since 1988.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (0aYVJ)

101 Somewhere in the PNW is the best I can do this evening.

On the west side of the Cascades old unpainted barns turn grey, on the east side they turn that brown color. It is either the sun, the rain, or the humidity.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (rbvCR)

102 My Rock House isn't even listed.
The Beatles
The Dave Clark Five
The Turtles
The Doors
CCR
The Animals
Jefferson Airplane
CSN&Y
Moody Blues
Steppenwolf
The Mothers of Invention

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (2WIwB)

103 Lens flare pictures - occasionally chance deliver a beautiful shot.
====

JJ Abrams, to the white courtesy phone, please!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (A0sqA)

104 Things that go Bump in the Night - or in this case the garage. We have a 2 car detached garage. Workbench, tools, yard equipment, wife’s car stay there. We were in it last weekend while doing yard work, wife hadn’t had to go anywhere so neither of us has gone in for 2 or 3 days.
So I went in tonight, and everything is in order, except …. One of the brooms is on the other side of the garage, not like it fell but like it was tossed. But everything else is in order, nothing else was touched.
So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.
-----

I'd invest in a trail-cam. Just to be sure. They're affordable.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:33 PM (Cjcf6)

105 Welp, as they say, time for me to shuffle off to bed. I have a workout scheduled tomorrow, some grocery and other errands, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:33 PM (wzUl9)

106 Anybody get a status on Theresa in Fort Worth?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:33 PM (rk+24)

107 My Rock House isn't even listed.
The Beatles
The Dave Clark Five
The Turtles
The Doors
CCR
The Animals
Jefferson Airplane
CSN&Y
Moody Blues
Steppenwolf
The Mothers of Invention
Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025

***
That'd be more like it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

108 FAR too many crappy post-1978 Aerosmith songs, cheesy Boston love songs, AC/DC songs that are way overplayed (like Thunderstruck)

Actually, it would be lovely to have "Thunderstruck" accompany videos of those Venezuelan narco terrorists being blown to bits. I'd watch that video.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (0Htd1)

109 Nice thread, scampydog.

Any idea what hill that is in the top photo?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (viF8m)

I don't know, but that farm has one hella crop of rocks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7)

110 House metal party - Rush and Blue Oyster Cult, absolutely!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (jr4TK)

111 My personal music collection is like house party #2 (except KISS), so...

I'd probably go over to #3, to expand my horizons.

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (rdVOm)

112 There is an underground in Newark but it is only open to Prudential employees. They can't risk their people walking the streets in daylight.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (A0sqA)

113 First time I heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" I thought, hey, this is Metallica but they're actually good!

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

114 102 My Rock House isn't even listed.
The Beatles
The Dave Clark Five
The Turtles
The Doors
CCR
The Animals
Jefferson Airplane
CSN&Y
Moody Blues
Steppenwolf
The Mothers of Invention
Posted by: Diogenes

I'll be setting up shop at Diogenes joint.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

115 Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner (1844-1923), hailing from the quaint town of Seiffen in the Ore Mountains of Germany, is known worldwide as the “Father of the Nutcracker.”
_______________________________

This guy has contributed more to society than most of us. But, at a price. While the rest of us will meet St. Peter at the Gate and spend a few anxious seconds while the good Saint checks his notes, Wilhelm is going get pulled aside for a cavity search and the whole TSA treatment unless he brings references explaining that, no...Nutcracker isn't some niche sexual device for masochists.

The more Wilhelm tries to explain, the deeper he will get. He'll be thrown in the Purgatory room with the guy that invented caulk.

Posted by: Orson at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (dIske)

116 Things that go Bump in the Night - or in this case the garage. We have a 2 car detached garage. Workbench, tools, yard equipment, wife’s car stay there. We were in it last weekend while doing yard work, wife hadn’t had to go anywhere so neither of us has gone in for 2 or 3 days.
So I went in tonight, and everything is in order, except …. One of the brooms is on the other side of the garage, not like it fell but like it was tossed. But everything else is in order, nothing else was touched.
So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.
-----

I'd invest in a trail-cam. Just to be sure. They're affordable.
Posted by: Crusader

For sure, be fun to see which of the shop vermin are into cleaning.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)

117 #3

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2025 10:37 PM (YwEeS)

118 Back in 78 when I started seeing shows, I saw Allman's, Ble Oyster Cult and Kiss in a six week stretch. Then a couple months later I saw Orleans at the Chance . Good show. John Hall later was a congress critter later from an adjoining district

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:37 PM (D+mpw)

119 Nightly lurker, but narciso will vouch for me (we share a JustOneMinute heritage). Merry merry to you all. This is all the de-lurking y'all will get from me, but this is a splendid opportunity to thank you for the evening ab workout I get from my laughter reading the ONT comments. No one is funnier than a moron. Wide congratulations to all concerned.

Posted by: Catsmeat at December 11, 2025 10:37 PM (le38v)

120 I'm sorry, but I have to take issue with "Wonderful Tonight".

I loathe that song nearly as much as "Imagine".

I would be absolutely disgusted with myself if I was immortalized as the woman who babysits a drunk addict through yet another evening out while he binges, takes his keys, drives him home, holds him up while he staggers in, pours him into bed to sleep it off before he starts all over, and my validation is that before he passes out, he tosses me the bone of "gee you're swell".

Not to mention the dreary drugged whine of the tune.

Nope. nope nope

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:37 PM (enw9G)

121 So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (jr4TK)
=====

You really don't want to know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:38 PM (A0sqA)

122 I'm sorry, but I have to take issue with "Wonderful Tonight".

I loathe that song nearly as much as "Imagine".

I would be absolutely disgusted with myself if I was immortalized as the woman who babysits a drunk addict through yet another evening out while he binges, takes his keys, drives him home, holds him up while he staggers in, pours him into bed to sleep it off before he starts all over, and my validation is that before he passes out, he tosses me the bone of "gee you're swell".

Not to mention the dreary drugged whine of the tune.

Nope. nope nope
Posted by: barb

what she said

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 10:38 PM (7neCS)

123 3.14159 !
Posted by: runner

Pi just kills me - an old math professor turned me on to this: π is believed to be a normal number ( π is strongly suspected to be one, though not yet proven). If a number is normal in base 10, then every finite sequence of digits appears with exactly the expected frequency. Even without full normality being proven for π, it has passed every statistical test for normality to millions of digits, so for all practical purposes any finite string you can imagine is essentially guaranteed to appear somewhere in π if you go far enough.

The key mathematical concept is normality of a number (specifically "normal in base 10"). A slightly weaker but still relevant property that π is known to have is that it is disjunctive (every finite sequence appears at least once), which is true for almost all real numbers in the sense of Lebesgue measure.

Your phone number, your birthday, the entire text of Hamlet encoded as digits… all of it is hiding in π if you look far enough out.

*Takes bong hit*

Dude . . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)

124 113 First time I heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" I thought, hey, this is Metallica but they're actually good!
Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

I was thinking “WTF is this?”

I still have never understood the admiration for Nirvana.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (4786I)

125 I'll be out the in the back forty with Del McCoury...

Just got tix for Alison Krauss with Jerry Douglas next June. Billy Strings is still on the bucket list.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (3nLb4)

126 Wonderful Tonight is part of the Patty Boyd collection. Didn't think she was so attractive that she inspired that many songs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:40 PM (D+mpw)

127 I'll be setting up shop at Diogenes joint.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

Welcome!
Great tunes!
Great bier!
Great whiskey!
But somebody needs to bring pizza.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 10:40 PM (2WIwB)

128 Goodnight, All. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:40 PM (77rzZ)

129 Except Metallica. they have sucked since 1988.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (0aYVJ)

I loved …And Justice For All. I liked (key word) The Black Album. After that I was done.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:40 PM (4786I)

130 >>I don't know, but that farm has one hella crop of rocks.

I'm used to it. There's a reason New England is covered in stone walls.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:41 PM (viF8m)

131 ***Built 1969 - 1979 as a bomb shelter - they were worried about the Soviets (how things change).
---

Nixon worked hard to drive that wedge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 10:42 PM (xgeFZ)

132 nurse ratched -

That's the beach in Discovery Park near the lighthouse, isn't it?

Spent many a day in and around that park, lived only a couple of blocks away.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 11, 2025 10:42 PM (gUs21)

133 71 None of the houses qualify because none involve Fighting for your Right to Party. Without that fundamental right, none of the other house parties exist.
Posted by: TRex - dino gets no sleep till Brooklyn at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

Kerry King of SLAYER on guitar on that song

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:42 PM (4786I)

134 I still have never understood the admiration for Nirvana.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (4786I

In all fairness, neither did Kurt.
Nevermind was produced to a state he didn't necessarily want. "Teen Spirit" was supposed to be some Louie-Louie parody. The single was supposed to be "Come As You Are", a Killers plagiary so obvious that the band was expecting maybe a few hipsters would enjoy.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:43 PM (gKWVE)

135 WHERE IS DREAM THEATER ON THOSE LISTS???

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:43 PM (4786I)

136 Smell the Glove, Something is a much better tribute that Wonderful Tonight.

She's a period piece as far as looks, but she must have had something going if Harrison and Clapton were both so smitten.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:44 PM (enw9G)

137 2CELLOS - Thunderstruck

https://youtu.be/uT3SBzmDxGk

Think classical music meets Back to the Future.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 10:44 PM (6ydKt)

138 Nixon worked hard to drive that wedge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 10:42 PM (xgeFZ)

And he didn’t need to. Mao and Stalin didn’t really get along. And Mao HATED Khrushchev.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I)

139 Something in the way she moves, that is

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:45 PM (enw9G)

140 A four act musical tour. So many songs are written around love and relationships - could link a hundred for each act. Let's take a tour through the highs, lows, and the magic of it. Use link shortener if pasting songs in comments - don't blow out the margins!

You can do the whole thing with Pain Of Salvation's "Remedy Lane" album.

Sparks Fly. Music and new love?
Fandango: https://youtu.be/Bi6WWXWnyZI

Red Flag Phase. After a few weeks, sometimes things didn't go as planned.
Chain Sling: https://youtu.be/BH98I0TDHzE
Undertow: https://youtu.be/ja5wA4s8tQU

The Real Thing.
This Heart Of Mine (I Pledge): https://youtu.be/53eKWJ4RMvg

And when things really didn't go well.
Rope Ends (trigger warning: suicide attempts. It really, really didn't go well):
https://youtu.be/jZxC7kl_WSg
Beyond The Pale: https://youtu.be/O7AH17jRciU

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 10:45 PM (nhCoE)

141
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Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:45 PM (A0sqA)

142 >>Billy Strings is still on the bucket list.

Me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:46 PM (viF8m)

143 /killing joke

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:46 PM (gKWVE)

144 So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.

When's the last time you saw your Elf on a Shelf?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:46 PM (rk+24)

145
Your phone number, your birthday, the entire text of Hamlet encoded as digits… all of it is hiding in π if you look far enough out.

*Takes bong hit*

Dude . . . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)

Come to me! Embrace the Everynothing!

Posted by: infinite infinities receding asymptotically at December 11, 2025 10:47 PM (pIfcn)

146 122 I'm sorry, but I have to take issue with "Wonderful Tonight".

I loathe that song nearly as much as "Imagine".

I would be absolutely disgusted with myself if I was immortalized as the woman who babysits a drunk addict through yet another evening out while he binges, takes his keys, drives him home, holds him up while he staggers in, pours him into bed to sleep it off before he starts all over, and my validation is that before he passes out, he tosses me the bone of "gee you're swell".
Not to mention the dreary drugged whine of the tune.
Nope. nope nope
Posted by: barb
But she gets to be f**ked by someone who's rich and famous. So, there's that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:47 PM (0Htd1)

147 @136 barbarausa, yup , Layla kinda shows she had a hold over those guys

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:47 PM (D+mpw)

148 Christmas traditions: I remember going to Mr. C’s in North Omaha on Christmas Eve, a unique restaurant that was garishly decorated and kept growing until it seemed like it would take over the city, then going home and opening one present. Then my sister always waking me up at 6 AM Christmas morning. Also hearing Santa’s sleigh bells at midnight at my grandparents’ farm, which sounded a lot like the old sleigh bells my grandfather kept in the basement.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at December 11, 2025 10:47 PM (tRYqg)

149 I liked most of And Justice For All. One is seriously gay though. An abomination.

The Black Album was okay-ish. Nothing Else Matters is gayer than cum on a mustache.

But I always thought the best thing Metallica did was throw out Mustaine, giving us Megadeth.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 11, 2025 10:48 PM (4/BuS)

150 I'm off to clean up the kitchen, after two kinds of cookies.

Sorry to drop in just long enough to dump on a song, but boy does it rub me wrong, lol!

Goodnight all, and sweet dreams when you get to them

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:49 PM (enw9G)

151 Actually any of the houses would be all right because none of them have:

-fucking Green Day
-Counting fucking Crowes
-Cranberries or Natalie Merchant
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Also none of them have:

Alannis
Spin Doctors
Gin Blossoms
Eurythmics
Grateful Dead (screw those talentless hacks)
Bob Dylan (get back to me when you can *enunciate*)

There should have been a room that had REO Speedwagon, Billy Squier, and Def Leppard, but no Def Leppard songs should be allowed post-Pyromania and Tom Petty but no songs after "Long After Dark". And I mean NONE from either Leppard or Petty.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6)

152 nerdygirl, if he fucks like he holds his liquor in the song, nope.

He wrote LOTS of better songs, and played many more inspiring pieces.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:50 PM (enw9G)

153 151 Billy Squier......
Posted by: Crusader
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Was listening to some Billy Squier today. Good stuff.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)

154 White House Media Offenders, thank you, did not know that page existed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 10:51 PM (xgeFZ)

155 Many years ago (before me) my wife took a holiday job wrapping presents at a large department store. They had men wrappers as well, to trick wives into thinking their husbands did it.

Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025 10:52 PM (8I4hW)

156 I lurk I lurk

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 11, 2025 10:52 PM (8cPKb)

157 I have dim memories of Montreal underground but I am sure it is at least 40 years since I've been down there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:53 PM (A0sqA)

158 152 nerdygirl, if he fucks like he holds his liquor in the song, nope.

He wrote LOTS of better songs, and played many more inspiring pieces.
Posted by: barbarausa

Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't think she was in it for the quality of the "love making".

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

159 I saw recently that Ted Nugent planned to blast some of his songs at 2 AM in Dearborn, as a counter to the Muslim screeching, er, call to prayer that happens at 5:30 in the morning.

Did he actually do it? If so, does he now have a price on his head in Dearborn?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 11, 2025 10:54 PM (S/Y4j)

160 @151, 153, Billy Squier, one of the he weirdest implosions in entertainment history. Talented guy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:54 PM (D+mpw)

161 Oh, Hai

After a decade of calling Bitcoin a fraud,
JPMorgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, went on live TV and admitted:

“We move trillions of dollars a day on blockchain.
It’s real. It’s faster. It’s cheaper.”

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 10:55 PM (rbvCR)

162
Pickleball is dangerous. A man in Malaysia fell three stories to his death trying to retrieve a ball.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 10:55 PM (3ek7K)

163 Blue Oyster Cult, not me but our friend and fan, nor his cat, from San Francisco has not been around in a couple of months. Maybe the Cult on the placard will bring him out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 10:56 PM (xgeFZ)

164 But I always thought the best thing Metallica did was throw out Mustaine, giving us Megadeth.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 11, 2025 10:48 PM (4/BuS)

And kept Lars. If you want a view into what could have been, look no farther than the day Lars had a diva meltdown before a show. Joey Jordinson filled in on drums doing all old shit. Lars was a fool for letting that happen. He would have been better off showing up and playing through his pussy hurt than to get shown up like that.
I actually became somewhat of a fan again when I found out that that sawed off little bitch was the actual problem
with the band.

Posted by: Reforger at December 11, 2025 10:57 PM (TAT25)

165 so less-than-one-hit wonders from the '80s, Sixtieth Parallel, are trying again: "Now That I Know"
youtu.be/z8R9Ur2nCKU
("Into Bliss" was legit good, though)

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:57 PM (gKWVE)

166 Back in 78 when I started seeing shows, I saw Allman's, Blue Oyster Cult and Kiss in a six week stretch.
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I saw all 3 of them--I saw Kiss on the reunion tour with Ace and Peter and saw Blue Oyster Cult twice, once opening for Rush circa 1985 and then opening for Allman Brothers circa 1996.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:58 PM (Cjcf6)

167 Needs more cowbell.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 10:58 PM (6ydKt)

168 You can do the whole thing with Pain Of Salvation's "Remedy Lane" album.
Posted by: mikeski

The songs aren't in chronological order for the story, so I don't know if it's "a concept album." But some lyrical and musical themes show up in multiple songs.

Undertow's lyrics are basically "if you love something, set it free." First verse:

Let me go, let me go, let me seek the answers that I need to know.
Let me find a way, let me walk away, through the undertow.
Please let me go.....

But it uses the melody from the bridge of "This Heart Of Mine (I Pledge)" for its guitar solo. The lyrics from that part are:

I believe this heart of mine when it tells my eyes, that this is beauty
I believe this heart of mine when it tells my mind, that this is reason
I believe this heart of mine when it cries at time, that this is forever
I believe this heart of mine when it tells the skies, that this is the face of God

Posted by: mikeski geeks out about music at December 11, 2025 10:59 PM (nhCoE)

169 Didn't think she was so attractive that she inspired that many songs
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Certain skill sets?

Posted by: Chrome, Trailer Ball Hitch at December 11, 2025 10:59 PM (OtFdX)

170 Many years ago (before me) my wife took a holiday job wrapping presents at a large department store. They had men wrappers as well, to trick wives into thinking their husbands did it.
Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025

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I'm quite the good present-wrapper. Like many things I know now, Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 taught me. Unfortunately I'd be too slow for the department store gig.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)

171 132 nurse ratched -

That's the beach in Discovery Park near the lighthouse, isn't it?

Spent many a day in and around that park, lived only a couple of blocks away.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer

Nope! Alki Beach! 100 steps from my front door.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:01 PM (mT+6a)

172 156 I lurk I lurk
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 11, 2025 10:52 PM (8cPKb)

This could sound ominous if the phrase is repeated to the music from Jaws.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 11:01 PM (rk+24)

173 I told a friend today that I only had 2or 3 more Motown puns left in me.....4 tops.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 11, 2025 11:02 PM (CDX35)

174 When we got back all the presents would be under the tree, because Santa snuck in while mom was doing the dishes.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

One year, when they were little, Oldest D and family, who were very little at the time, were scheduled to fly to Disney World early on Christmas Day.
So, we had dinner on the Eve at our house, and during dessert, Uncle T quietly disappeared. Then we all went over to their house and lo and behold- Santa had come!
Because he knew they were going to be on a plane the next day.
He's just that good...

Posted by: sal at December 11, 2025 11:03 PM (f+FmA)

175 As a child, after Christmas Eve service, we'd go over to my grandmother's house where we saw her tree for the first time. Her family was German, and the big reveal was always on Christmas Eve. Leaving Detroit we'd go along Lakeshore Drive to see the mansions lit up. Most of them are gone now, I think the Ford estate is about the only one left.

Posted by: Lirio100 at December 11, 2025 11:03 PM (ky7/T)

176 I told a friend today that I only had 2or 3 more Motown puns left in me.....4 tops.
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 11, 2025

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There are temptations to take that as a challenge. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:03 PM (wzUl9)

177 Oh man, who can resist The Tempations of Motown puns?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 11:04 PM (6ydKt)

178 173 I told a friend today that I only had 2or 3 more Motown puns left in me.....4 tops.
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 11, 2025 11:02 PM (CDX35)

I will try to resist the Temptstions to join in the pun-ditry.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 11:05 PM (rk+24)

179 Horde mind activated.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 11:06 PM (rk+24)

180 or why you refuse to trust your compass, and/or any other GPS devices,

Oh, my whole family (and then some) knows that I do NOT do Google Maps directions! Just this week, Pooky's nephew's friend was trying to use them to direct me to the other side of a mall. I ignored it and got us there faster.

Posted by: pookysgirl sez DEATH TO CLANKERS at December 11, 2025 11:06 PM (Wt5PA)

181 Nope! Alki Beach! 100 steps from my front door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:01 PM (mT+6a)

Same beach where they filmed the father/son boating scenes in Sleepless in Seattle?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 11:06 PM (2WIwB)

182 Tank demon. Don't be late.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 11, 2025 11:06 PM (CDX35)

183 I always liked “Wonderful Tonight.”

Some of us only get compliments when the man is drunk. Or we are helping them.

Or they just don’t tell us we are loved unless they’re popped.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:07 PM (mT+6a)

184 >>> 141
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Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 11, 2025 11:07 PM (ULPxl)

185 I used to wrap my buddies gifts when I was a kid in exchange for letting me plunder their Christmas cookie supplies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:07 PM (A0sqA)

186 My wife would win the gift wrapping Olympics, my family always felt ashamed to open presents from her because they looked like works of art.
Me, I learned gift wrapping from my dad, who’s signature move was to take the funny pages out of the Sunday paper, wrap a couple roughly around the present, and then tie it all of with a couple wraps of twine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (jr4TK)

187 Oh man, who can resist The Tempations of Motown puns?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 11:04 PM (6ydKt)

Serve these puns up on a platter.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (2WIwB)

188 I'll check in with the lame answer. If all those parties were on the same street, I'd leave one party and go to the next when something terrible came on. I could listen to a Rush instrumental album- the music was great, I just can't stand Geddy Lee or his lyrics.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (NZPfR)

189 I'm quite the good present-wrapper. Like many things I know now, Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 taught me. Unfortunately I'd be too slow for the department store gig.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)

I used to decent, now I'm awful. No idea why

Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (8I4hW)

190 We do have some supremes punters here at AoSHQ

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (rk+24)

191 I'm generally a fan of Metallica, but Lars drums sound like they're covered by a blanket. Why has nobody pointed this out or fixed it yet?

Phil Collins was getting *crisp* drum sounds on tape as early as the '80s. Cozy Powell was too--the 2 of them split the drum tracks on Robert Plant's first solo album.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 11:09 PM (Cjcf6)

192 Christmas Eve when I was a kid was exciting, full of suspense and anticipation. We'd have the tree lit, of course, and there would always be Christmas-themed episodes of our favorite shows on TV. Mom would hustle us off to bed as early as she could, of course. Equally naturally, I'd be awake early.

Later, in college, I'd sit up drinking with Mom if I didn't go out with friends. The last thing I wanted to do was get up early on The Day.

Mrs. Wolfus No. 2's extended maternal family had a tradition of gathering in one relative's house on Xmas Eve. Fortunately they all lived pretty close to each other. "I won't inflict my family on you except at Christmas and Easter," she said, and (for once) was as good as her word. I didn't know any of the people and they didn't wear name tags, so I was lost.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:09 PM (wzUl9)

193 102 Diogenes -- Yes, I would be very happy to live in that house. May I suggest Chad and Jeremy, Freddie and the Pacemakers, and of course Simon and Garfinkel.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 11, 2025 11:10 PM (DK5Sh)

194 Just saying, the math guy is a bit weird.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 11, 2025 11:10 PM (w3u3d)

195 >>> 95 Things that go Bump in the Night - or in this case the garage. We have a 2 car detached garage. Workbench, tools, yard equipment, wife’s car stay there. We were in it last weekend while doing yard work, wife hadn’t had to go anywhere so neither of us has gone in for 2 or 3 days.
So I went in tonight, and everything is in order, except …. One of the brooms is on the other side of the garage, not like it fell but like it was tossed. But everything else is in order, nothing else was touched.
So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (jr4TK)

We had a fight. I won.

Posted by: Tom Servo's rake at December 11, 2025 11:11 PM (ULPxl)

196 and then tie it all of with a couple wraps of twine.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Twine wrap - memory jolt. Used to be commonplace, been a spell since I've seen something twine wrapped. Always appreciated the functional aspect of a brown bag and a good twine wrap.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:11 PM (41CYW)

197 Motown puns . . . drifters on Broadway or up on the roof could have seen those coming. .. .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:11 PM (wzUl9)

198 193 102 Diogenes -- Yes, I would be very happy to live in that house. May I suggest Chad and Jeremy, Freddie and the Pacemakers, and of course Simon and Garfinkel.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 11, 2025

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Also fine choices. Don't leave out the folk singers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:12 PM (wzUl9)

199 191 I'm generally a fan of Metallica, but Lars drums sound like they're covered by a blanket. Why has nobody pointed this out or fixed it yet?

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 11:09 PM (Cjcf6)

That's what removing the suck supplied by Lars sounds like post production.

Posted by: Reforger at December 11, 2025 11:12 PM (TAT25)

200 >>Oh, my whole family (and then some) knows that I do NOT do Google Maps directions! Just this week, Pooky's nephew's friend was trying to use them to direct me to the other side of a mall. I ignored it and got us there faster.
Posted by: pookysgirl sez DEATH TO CLANKERS
--

Buddy picked up SIL who flew in to visit her mom.
On the way from the airport, using her phone, she was giving him route directions back to his house.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:12 PM (xgeFZ)

201 Some of us only get compliments when the man is drunk. Or we are helping them.

Or they just don’t tell us we are loved unless they’re popped.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:07 PM (mT+6a)

Nurse, You just reminded me of something you wrote earlier today, hopefully in jest, but in the art thread you wrote that you were an “ugly” person, too.

Well that could not be further from the truth, I met you at one of the MoMe’s, and you are a completely lovely person, inside and out! You should be told that more often.

And no, just for the record I haven’t been drinking at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:13 PM (jr4TK)

202 Same beach where they filmed the father/son boating scenes in Sleepless in Seattle?
Posted by: Diogenes

I thought that was at Leschi on Lake Washington.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:14 PM (mT+6a)

203 Or Lake Union.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:14 PM (mT+6a)

204 Well that could not be further from the truth, I met you at one of the MoMe’s, and you are a completely lovely person, inside and out! You should be told that more often.

And no, just for the record I haven’t been drinking at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025

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I get that impression of Nurse, too, and I've never met her in real life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:14 PM (wzUl9)

205 Billy can really play.

https://tinyurl.com/5a72uc2k

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)

206 >>> Another 37 undergrounds across the world.

Did not check it but they say in Hawaii, Oahu, you go through tunnels throughout the whole island.
Not true. Most have been walled off or closed by iron gates.
Kunia may not even be in use anymore.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 11, 2025 11:18 PM (j0hB7)

207 I'm watching yet another "Harrelson's Own" commercial.

How sad. Its like those losers get a mouth spray that *hints* at being high, but they never get to experience the joy that is listening to Rainbow at 2 in the morning perform "A Light in the Black" or "Lost in Hollywood".

Get clean and live life on your own terms. Or don't. But straddling the 2 seems pointless.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 11:18 PM (Cjcf6)

208 And for the record about "Wonderful Tonight": Maybe I've misunderstood some of the lyrics. But I always had the impression that the narrator/singer's getting drunk on this night was an isolated incident, not that he was an addict or habitual drunk. That would change the dynamic between him and the woman, whom I presumed was his wife of some years and not an occasional or casual girlfriend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (wzUl9)

209 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?

Posted by: EastBayLarry at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (Kbnct)

210 No procrastination this year.

I started my holiday weight gain in September.

Posted by: Fritzy at December 11, 2025 11:20 PM (2GIh1)

211 Boston. I have the album from my college days in storage .
Now get off of my lawn.😁

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 11, 2025 11:20 PM (w3u3d)

212 I would be at house party #1 and #3. Start at #1 and try like hell to hit #3. Btw, Helloween belongs at party #1, they are power metal. Berserker christmas party this saturday will have most of 1 and 3 anyway. Let the mayhem begin.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:21 PM (snZF9)

213 I've never had the good fortune of meeting nurse in person so forgive me for picturing Louise Fletcher

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:21 PM (A0sqA)

214 >>> 213 I've never had the good fortune of meeting nurse in person so forgive me for picturing Louise Fletcher
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:21 PM (A0sqA)

I hope she doesn't picture you as a woodpecker. ;P

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 11, 2025 11:22 PM (ULPxl)

215 212 I would be at house party #1 and #3. Start at #1 and try like hell to hit #3. Btw, Helloween belongs at party #1, they are power metal. Berserker christmas party this saturday will have most of 1 and 3 anyway. Let the mayhem begin.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Good stuff. Saw that, started rearranging bands/houses, and thought... I wonder what Berserker would think of the lists? And now that riddle is solved! Thanks.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:23 PM (41CYW)

216 On Xmas Eve in the years after Katrina, Linda and I would drive out to the uptown area or near the lakefront to walk and look at the lights of the decorated houses. Increasingly in recent years, I've been much more leery of going out in this town after dark, though. I'll drive, but not walk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:23 PM (wzUl9)

217 House at the end of the block that has the good bands from the first four that survived the slaughter.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 11, 2025 11:24 PM (j0hB7)

218 Mostly a lurker. Christmas tradition: open wrapped presents from all, but Santa, on Christmas Eve. Dad would pass gifts out in order of the 4 siblings, opened one by one, so we could all appreciate what each of us received. Parents did this to take the edge off, in hopes we would not get up so early on Christmas morning. In the morning we would make our beds, then march downstairs, in order by age, to see what Santa brought us. The toys (usually our biggest gift) would be unwrapped and ready to go/play with so we did not have to wait for the folks to get up, though it was tough to sleep in with 4 excited kids playing. We continued to open gifts on Christmas Eve, even through college, and sleep in Christmas morning.

Posted by: Shipoopi at December 11, 2025 11:24 PM (t1uwd)

219 Billy Strings Tiny Desk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgqaxMOKfnI

Posted by: huerfano at December 11, 2025 11:24 PM (98kQX)

220 I will go with Diogenes' Rock House. In particular the Moody Blues.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (0Aoc4)

221 Wife is one of nine girls, all in a row. Number ten was a boy. When we used to host the Christmas party. We have had as many as 71 immediate family members at our house for the party. Thankfully a younger sister bought a large house and has had held them for several years.

Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (8I4hW)

222 Regarding 6174, I have a book called The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers by David Wells, which contains numbers like these.

For 6174, it describes the Kaprekar’s constant process; and then also notes that “6174 is also a Harshad number, because it is divisible by the sum of its digits.”

Fascinating bathroom reading.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (EXyHK)

223 Now it is bedtime, all. Until the Tech Thread, I say, play nice; and if you can't do that, don't get caught!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (wzUl9)

224 You keep telling us lurkers to de-lurk. But not everyone has something to add to a thread. Even *I* don't care what I say most of the time. Why should I inflict that on you? Lurking can be a gift to all of the comment readers.

Posted by: RoadRunner at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (Lyv1/)

225 And kept Lars. If you want a view into what could have been, look no farther than the day Lars had a diva meltdown before a show. Joey Jordinson filled in on drums doing all old shit. Lars was a fool for letting that happen. He would have been better off showing up and playing through his pussy hurt than to get shown up like that.
I actually became somewhat of a fan again when I found out that that sawed off little bitch was the actual problem
with the band.

Posted by: Reforger at December 11, 2025 10:57 PM (TAT25)

Lar's drum set dreams of a 3some with joey and dave lombardo after that night.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:26 PM (snZF9)

226 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry

If you've never made the Wall Of Shame, you can still call yourself a lurker.

I've made the Sockpuppet list, but never the Poster list, so I'm a provisional lurker, or something.

Posted by: mikeski sorts socks alphabetically, not by color at December 11, 2025 11:27 PM (nhCoE)

227 Eyes are getting fuzzy.

Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025 11:28 PM (8I4hW)

228 If that's a nutcracker...
https://youtube.com/shorts/WImYkUOZKaA
NSFW!!!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)

229 209 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry
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*Checks Style Guide* Lurker status...upgraded. Restroom tokens unlocked.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:29 PM (41CYW)

230 229 209 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry
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*Checks Style Guide* Lurker status...upgraded. Restroom tokens unlocked.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:29 PM (41CYW)

It's that technically the Barrel?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)

231 Good stuff. Saw that, started rearranging bands/houses, and thought... I wonder what Berserker would think of the lists? And now that riddle is solved! Thanks.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:23 PM (41CYW)

It was a tough choice. If Helloween was in party #1 I probably wouldn't leave to hit party 3. Helloween is great. In the end though, lemmy probably wouldn't let me leave. I've been on their tour bus, lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:31 PM (snZF9)

232 >>Billy Strings Tiny Desk

It must be so fun to be able to play like that. Any of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:31 PM (viF8m)

233 In case you missed it or want something for the archive.

Jasmine Crockett challenges anyone to produce a clip of Democrats suggesting violence.

https://tinyurl.com/bd9rktr8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:32 PM (xgeFZ)

234 221 Wife is one of nine girls, all in a row.....
Posted by: javems
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Evening, javems. Always great to see you in the grey boxes.
9 girls!!!! I had 3 sisters, I have so many questions.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:32 PM (41CYW)

235 And for the record about "Wonderful Tonight": Maybe I've misunderstood some of the lyrics. But I always had the impression that the narrator/singer's getting drunk on this night was an isolated incident, not that he was an addict or habitual drunk. That would change the dynamic between him and the woman, whom I presumed was his wife of some years and not an occasional or casual girlfriend.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (wzUl9)

Clapton wrote the song as he was waiting (again) for his wife Patty (formerly Mrs. George Harrison) to get herself ready to accompany him to a party (possibly hosted by the aforementioned Mr. Harrison). The drinking reference could have been poetic license. Eric is a reformed addict, but unpacking all that would, as you say, change the dynamic..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 11, 2025 11:33 PM (nbLIj)

236 I would go to rock/metal house party #3. But I usually prefer classical.

Posted by: Blahblahblah at December 11, 2025 11:34 PM (oV7lS)

237
205 Billy can really play.

https://tinyurl.com/5a72uc2k
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)

Wow - that link led me to one of Billy doing “Tangled up in Blue” - best version of that song I’ve ever heard!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:34 PM (jr4TK)

238 Peon's Party House? In no particular order:

Rolling Stones
Small Faces
Cream
Guess Who
Ten Years After
CCR
Allman Brothers
Little Feat
Grateful Dead

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 11:35 PM (npFr7)

239 232 >>Billy Strings Tiny Desk

It must be so fun to be able to play like that. Any of them.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:31 PM (viF8m)

I'm confident all of our feeds overlap quite a bit, so you guys may have seen his cover of Pink Floyd Fearless. If not check it out, even if it is from the Howard Stern Show.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 11, 2025 11:35 PM (pIfcn)

240 7
Aerosmith?

Worst Lyrics in any band. Ever.

All their songs have the stupidest lyrics.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:05 PM (K+a/1)

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If you don't see the brilliance in "can't catch me cuz the rabbit done died", then maybe you're just too young to get the reference.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 11, 2025 11:36 PM (kDHiw)

241 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (Kbnct)
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You should have appended the obligatory "Asking for a friend."

*points deducted from permanent record*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:36 PM (9ipOP)

242 WHERE IS DREAM THEATER ON THOSE LISTS???
Posted by: Cow Demon

That's why I'm at the #3 house with Savatage and Fates Warning. Those are the most prog-metal of the bands on the lists, I think.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 11:39 PM (nhCoE)

243 240 Regarding top pic

I did NOT give permission to have a photo of Stately Miklos Manor published.

There are security concerns.

Also, you didn't kick yer shoes off and set a while.

There's always a jug on the table.
Posted by: Miklos v. Scampydog, Miklos' cousin the Magistrate presiding
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Well heck. I didn't know you and Some Rat were residing at the same residence - see 38. That's a lot of wits, brains, and fun. Guessing a booby trap or three to keep an eye out for.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:40 PM (41CYW)

244 Jasmine Crockett challenges anyone to produce a clip of Democrats suggesting violence.
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Do we limit ourselves to just today's entries or do we go back as far as we want?

Posted by: clarence at December 11, 2025 11:40 PM (JwHY3)

245 Blue Oyster Cult, not me but our friend and fan, nor his cat, from San Francisco has not been around in a couple of months. Maybe the Cult on the placard will bring him out.

Posted by: Braenyard

Extremely busy. Still working at 8:40 p.m. No time for anything except the cat, sort of. Not even BOC which came 20 miles from here last month. Hi and goodbye.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 11, 2025 11:42 PM (KAi1n)

246 Aerosmith?

Worst Lyrics in any band. Ever.

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They're no Steve Miller Band

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:42 PM (0RiMX)

247 Lovely ONT, scampydog!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:43 PM (6p0Jv)

248 @SenJoniErnst
Dec 10
$79 billion in COVID fraud could have been prevented if four basic questions were asked.

Is the Social Security Number valid, does the number match the name, does the birthday match, and is the individual ALIVE?

https://tinyurl.com/3f5ffaht

The new part is... they used pictures of dolls for people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:43 PM (xgeFZ)

249 >>I'm confident all of our feeds overlap quite a bit, so you guys may have seen his cover of Pink Floyd Fearless. If not check it out, even if it is from the Howard Stern Show.

I haven't but I will.

I like his version of this with Marcus King a lot but this one strikes a bit closer.

https://tinyurl.com/bdefdv44

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:43 PM (viF8m)

250 I'm tardy. It's probably been asked. Any news on Teresa?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:46 PM (6p0Jv)

251 Feeling under ye weather and having myself a little pity party

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 11, 2025 11:47 PM (GhIJO)

252 Posted by: Braenyard

Extremely busy. Still working at 8:40 p.m. No time for anything except the cat, sort of. Not even BOC which came 20 miles from here last month. Hi and goodbye.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 11, 2025 11:42 PM (KAi1n)
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Thanks for checking in. He worries.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:47 PM (A0sqA)

253 246 Jasmine Crockett challenges anyone to produce a clip of Democrats suggesting violence.
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Do we limit ourselves to just today's entries or do we go back as far as we want?
Posted by: clarence

She's a gift. Amazing!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 11:47 PM (C26rB)

254 242 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (Kbnct)
===

You should have appended the obligatory "Asking for a friend."

*points deducted from permanent record*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:36 PM (9ipOP)

for the record.... Permanent Records, if on the Net?

Not permanent.... for the public at least...

Just sayin....

Posted by: Bob, NSA... at December 11, 2025 11:47 PM (mP0Kj)

255 I would hit all four of those house parties...

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 11, 2025 11:48 PM (kOluj)

256 I'm tardy. It's probably been asked. Any news on Teresa?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:46 PM (6p0Jv)
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Several requests but no reports.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:48 PM (A0sqA)

257 249 Lovely ONT, scampydog!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Good evening, and thank you. You coming to the Club ONT Christmas Party? JQ has been decorating like crazy - trying to balance Doof and his multicolored lights vs. the white lights.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:49 PM (41CYW)

258 @SenJoniErnst
Dec 10
$79 billion in COVID fraud could have been prevented

The new part is... they used pictures of dolls for people.
Posted by: Braenyard

"That's Teddy Ruxpin."

"Maybe he hasn't shaved since the lockdown started."

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 11:50 PM (nhCoE)

259 Hi and goodbye.
Posted by: Dark Litigator
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Good to know that your up and kicking.
We'll be here when you've settled those cases.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:51 PM (xgeFZ)

260 I mentioned this a few days ago but it’s so hilarious here it is again.

On Tuesday I got a letter from the fed government and the Army. They wrote to inform me that my house and the property it’s on is a designated national superfund site. So it turns out there’s different levels of superfund from Aaagh! we must set our hair on fire spend a billion dollars and bring in the core of engineers! to “well good luck that pal”. My house is on the latter end.

So turns out there was an army camp north of ATL that became an artillery and ordinance training area before WWII. (cont.)

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 11:52 PM (Rh0Gp)

261 Several requests but no reports.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:48 PM (A0sqA)

Reported in the last thread. She is out of surgery. Surgeon decided not to do a liver resection, but implanted a pump to deliver chemo drugs directly to her liver.

I don't know if this is good news, or bad news. I would hope it's good news, meaning the surgeon thinks direct application of chemo will save her liver.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 11:53 PM (npFr7)

262 I've already made my 4th quarter lurker post, but since you asked so nicely.. Hi!

Posted by: ChE99 at December 11, 2025 11:53 PM (bLGb+)

263 I'm tardy. It's probably been asked. Any news on Teresa?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

From the Homan Thread earlier today:

289 Teresa is out of surgery. Doctor decided against resection and instead installed a pump to deliver chemo directly to the liver.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 08:38 PM (PQ0Vo)

I don't think there's been an update since that one?

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 11:53 PM (nhCoE)

264 Good evening, and thank you. You coming to the Club ONT Christmas Party? JQ has been decorating like crazy - trying to balance Doof and his multicolored lights vs. the white lights.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:49 PM (41CYW)

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Yes sir. I will be there with the colored lights in my heart. And a Blow Mold Santa 😃

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:54 PM (6p0Jv)

265 I will need that scaffolding back UNDAMAGED
Posted by: Moderately Helpful Miklos
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Please see the Disclaimer above. The Club Christmas Party will be more verbose, contain more words, and linguistic contortions.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:55 PM (41CYW)

266 Thank you AOP and Mikeski. I don't know what that means for Teresa, but prayers continue.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:56 PM (6p0Jv)

267 That's why I'm at the #3 house with Savatage and Fates Warning. Those are the most prog-metal of the bands on the lists, I think.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 11:39 PM (nhCoE)

Savatage was frigging great. Power of the night and The unholy were killer tunes. The lyrics for The Unholy were genius.

Raging spirits kept from the light, enslaved in worlds of doom
marching armies to the darker side, the devil's black platoon
Torches raised, no mercy, victory was theirs
Such was life, in the unholy years

You're not hearing shit like that in hair metal, thats for sure.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:56 PM (snZF9)

268
Good evening, all. Thanks for the update on Teresa.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 11:58 PM (1N/bM)

269 Dark Litigator

Good to see you.

Miss you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 12:00 AM (mT+6a)

270 193 102 Diogenes -- Yes, I would be very happy to live in that house. May I suggest Chad and Jeremy, Freddie and the Pacemakers, and of course Simon and Garfinkel.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 11, 2025 11:10 PM (DK5Sh)

Fine additions, but keep the Simon and Garfunkle turned down. I'm not a fan.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (2WIwB)

271 (Cont.) That camp is part of the superfund. People find unexploded shells occasionally. But it has mostly been developed into a small municipal airport in Kennesaw GA. But that’s not where my house is. No. So one of the targets they used for training was a small mountain, hill really, in a city to the south. And that’s my house and the superfund location 2. I live on the firing solution for an over half century old Army training base. The Army provided me with a helpful pamphlet on what very boring thing to do when I find a shell and no guidance on what to bonk it real good with.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (Rh0Gp)

272 First World Problem... hear me out.
I grabbed up all my ~~colored clothes~~ clothes of color today, and took them downstairs to wash them in the machine. Unbeknownst to me, I dropped a sock on the way out of the room and didn't notice until hours later, after the laundry was cleaned and dried.

So, now I have a dilemma. Do I 1) just toss the matching sock back in the dirty clothes bin with the dirty one, and suck up being one pair short all week? Or, 2) do I just wear the dirty one with its clean mate sometime this week, so I now have a dirty pair to wash next time?

Or, 3) do I surreptitiously toss it in the garbage, pretending it got lost? (I think the universe would punish me for mocking its mysteries like that. Very dangerous.)

If I were living in the days of hand-washing everything, I would just hand-wash it and hang it out with the others. But, nooooo, we have these infernal machines....

Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (D60l2)

273 Looks like raimondo found his mom's absinthe stash.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2025 12:02 AM (0RiMX)

274 AOP, that is a great list at your 238. I have a low threshold for repetition, but can listen to Burton Cummings sing over...and over...and...

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:02 AM (41CYW)

275 I always toss the extra sock back into the dirty basket.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 12:04 AM (jr4TK)

276 Thanks for the report on TiFW hard to know without asking a lot more questions

First recover from surgery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:05 AM (A0sqA)

277 253 I'm tardy. ...
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

That's nothing. Raimondo just got here.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 12, 2025 12:05 AM (gKWVE)

278 GWB, the choice is yours. I'd do option 1 or 2. The top of my dresser is the waiting area for matchless socks. It usually works out in a wash or two.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:05 AM (6p0Jv)

279 Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (D60l2)

Febreze the dirty sock and wear it with the clean sock.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:06 AM (A0sqA)

280 283 Looks like raimondo found his mom's absinthe stash.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Yeah, I don't know whether to laugh, delete, hire an interpreter, or snip it as a cautionary tale for (as you mentioned) an absinthe in moderation fable.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:07 AM (41CYW)

281 I haven't but I will.

I like his version of this with Marcus King a lot but this one strikes a bit closer.

https://tinyurl.com/bdefdv44
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:43 PM (viF8m)

Oh, that's nice! Not in a hurry to get anywhere. Love it. How is he effortlessly far better than anyone I've seen?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 12, 2025 12:08 AM (pIfcn)

282 And when things really didn't go well.
And not a single country song in there? Pfft. Lame.

Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 12:10 AM (D60l2)

283 So, now I have a dilemma. Do I 1) just toss the matching sock back in the dirty clothes bin with the dirty one, and suck up being one pair short all week? Or, 2) do I just wear the dirty one with its clean mate sometime this week, so I now have a dirty pair to wash next time?

Or, 3) do I surreptitiously toss it in the garbage, pretending it got lost? (I think the universe would punish me for mocking its mysteries like that. Very dangerous.)

Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (D60l2)

If Spock was here he would say 1 and 3 both leaves you a pair short, so you might as well do #1 and still have the socks. #2 is right out.

If it makes you feel better I always do #1, because the same frigging thing happens to me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 12:11 AM (snZF9)

284 I would wonder what war the retard is going about but then I realized I don't care.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:12 AM (A0sqA)

285 Rhe war on drugs?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:13 AM (6p0Jv)

286 It all depends on how rank your feet are.

Not all of us are blessed in the feet. I could wear socks for two days no problem. Three days maybe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:14 AM (A0sqA)

287 296 And when things really didn't go well.
And not a single country song in there? Pfft. Lame.
Posted by: GWB
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Fair. I litigated that in my small brain - thought the entire genre of those years would encompass every country song. Did ponder Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors for one section.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:16 AM (41CYW)

288 My Scoutmaster was out of his mind that we had to change our socks before going to bed when camping out and went on and on about how some dumb kid in 1959 woke up with his feet frozen off because he didn't change his socks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:16 AM (A0sqA)

289 And then I met a man who had no sock

Posted by: Miklosian sob story fundraisers LLC at December 12, 2025 12:14 AM (N7hqt)

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At this joint he is a poor man indeed.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary with no sock at December 12, 2025 12:17 AM (6p0Jv)

290 Huh. I didn't have 'mondo figured for the CCP prison tramp. I always just thought he was demented and sad but normal... well normal for marxist fukwits and poorly executed bots.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 12, 2025 12:17 AM (pIfcn)

291
Trump is not going to start a boots-on-the-ground regime change war. He's just making Maduro an offer he can't refuse. This is the Donroe doctrine, reasserting American control of our hemisphere. Chicoms and Iran and even Rooskies have been encroaching, thanks to Biden weakness. Donnie Two Scoops is putting his foot down. Maduro is the example being made.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

292 Viva Venezuela Libre!

or something

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:18 AM (A0sqA)

293 308
Trump is not going to start a boots-on-the-ground regime change war. He's just making Maduro an offer he can't refuse. This is the Donroe doctrine, reasserting American control of our hemisphere. Chicoms and Iran and even Rooskies have been encroaching, thanks to Biden weakness. Donnie Two Scoops is putting his foot down. Maduro is the example being made.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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This.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:18 AM (41CYW)

294 Was checking out the gift-wrap "fails" haha..

One year, I wanted to give hubby some tools and motorcycle goodies (because he had a Harley at the time) but could not find any plain black wrap! I ended up spray-painting butcher paper in my garage. Perfect flat black finish. Plus: had some black curling ribbon already.

My inspiration for this?

https://youtu.be/XTml9EN1nzE

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:19 AM (rdVOm)

295 Thank you, Helpful Miklos

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 12, 2025 12:19 AM (6U1c2)

296 @299 Don't care about the americans who will die in war against Venezuela. OK thats on you.
Posted by: raimondo

Then the drug overdoses, and gang violence (black kids shot!) are on you, right?

Posted by: mikeski at December 12, 2025 12:20 AM (nhCoE)

297 Country or Texas Country?
You haven't heard this one.

youtube.com/watch?v=tNk1LO8aMuA

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:20 AM (xgeFZ)

298 Feeling under ye weather and having myself a little pity party
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Hang in there man, there are days (and nights) like this, but they too shall pass.

Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 12:21 AM (Cjcf6)

299 305 My Scoutmaster was out of his mind that we had to change our socks before going to bed when camping out and went on and on about how some dumb kid in 1959 woke up with his feet frozen off because he didn't change his socks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:16 AM (A0sqA)

LoL you reminded me of the coldest my feet have been waking up. We didn’t do much winter camping but did some, and our troop camped out in Northern Arizona one February. It was quite fun, and the first night it snowed about 6 inches - a very quiet, fluffy snow. I had a good zero degree sleeping bag, but I was in an open ended pup tent and my feet stuck out the open end. I remember waking up trying to figure out why my feet were so damned cold, then I looked down and saw 6 inches of snow on the bottom foot of my sleeping bag.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 12:22 AM (jr4TK)

300
Do a search on DataRepublican's X feed for Venezuela. Under Maduro, it's become quite the hub for anti-American subversion by several bad actors. Antifa and the domestic commies. Iran and the Islamists. And the Chicoms.

A lot of this drug stuff is the Chicoms messing us up. Weaken us by all that drug carnage. And the Chicoms are trying to get in on the oil. Donnie Two Scoops ain't gonna let that happen. This is our backyard, and they ain't gonna fuck around with us there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:23 AM (w6EFb)

301 House parties? Can you say And? #1, #3, #4, #2.

At #3, I'm catching my second wind.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 12:24 AM (1zOXE)

302 Meaning of the aerosmith lyric "can't catch me cuz the rabbit done died" from sweet emotion is pretty much meaningless to anyone under 70.

Posted by: steven at December 12, 2025 12:24 AM (QOrsj)

303 Floyd Tillman (December 8, 1914[1] – August 22, 2003)[2] was an American country musician who, in the 1930s and 1940s, helped create the Western swing and honky tonk genres. Tillman was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1984.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:24 AM (xgeFZ)

304
Wartime Consigliere Rubio is big on this Donroe doctrine as well. I was reading something about why Rubio was a damned good choice for SS here, as opposed to some others who wouldn't have been as good on this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

305
My inspiration for this?

https://youtu.be/XTml9EN1nzE
Posted by: JQ

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Not only is that an incredibly cool ad, it's an 18-YEAR-OLD YOUTUBE VIDEO. Holy crikies, I didn't know there was such a thing.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (1N/bM)

306 I've camped at the Grand Canyon North Rim. No snow but it was in the 20s at night. It was cold.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (6p0Jv)

307 315 Country or Texas Country?
You haven't heard this one.

youtube.com/watch?v=tNk1LO8aMuA
Posted by: Braenyard
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Good one. Paid attention to lyrics, but liked the instruments. Correct - not heard that one before.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (41CYW)

308 The people at rock party #2 would give wedgies to people at the other 3 parties.

Posted by: steven at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (QOrsj)

309 Trump is not going to start a boots-on-the-ground regime change war. He's just making Maduro an offer he can't refuse. This is the Donroe doctrine, reasserting American control of our hemisphere. Chicoms and Iran and even Rooskies have been encroaching, thanks to Biden weakness. Donnie Two Scoops is putting his foot down. Maduro is the example being made.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

And if all else fails we'll just erase his world from orbit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 12:28 AM (snZF9)

310 Hey Horde, haven't been on the blog all day, it is getting to be crunch time for Christmas. I skimmed through all the comments looking for news of Teresa, thanks to those who re-posted the update.

Miklos, is there a Novdu food or Christmas tradition that you could share at the Christmas Party?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 12:30 AM (0nHVk)

311 Something that I think is a complete scam is dryer lint traps. I have never even had to clean one. Complete bs. I don’t even check anymore. There’s obviously something really shady going on there. My hypothesis is the Illuminati are using it to track us. Or the lizard people are harvesting lint to power their vast underground facilities. Or, and this is the craziest possibility, I’m really just including it for completion sake, maybe my wife was always diligently cleaning it out instead.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:30 AM (Rh0Gp)

312 Something that I think is a complete scam is dryer lint traps. I have never even had to clean one. Complete bs. I don’t even check anymore. There’s obviously something really shady going on there. My hypothesis is the Illuminati are using it to track us. Or the lizard people are harvesting lint to power their vast underground facilities. Or, and this is the craziest possibility, I’m really just including it for completion sake, maybe my wife was always diligently cleaning it out instead.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:30 AM (Rh0Gp)

The wife is cleaning it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 12:31 AM (snZF9)

313 Not only is that an incredibly cool ad, it's an 18-YEAR-OLD YOUTUBE VIDEO. Holy crikies, I didn't know there was such a thing.
Posted by: Nothing Will Happen
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Yeah, youtoob has been around a while. I saw the commercial on regular tv, back in the day. (Hubby & I weren't even married yet, LOL.)

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:33 AM (rdVOm)

314
The wife is cleaning it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

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100%

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 12, 2025 12:33 AM (1N/bM)

315 Delurking -

House party
—————-
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys
The Cramps
X
X-Ray Spex
Generation X
Circle Jerks
James Brown

Merry Christmas to all - what an extraordinary group of talented people gather here every night; hard not to wake the wife from the not infrequent belly laughs caused by the various stories shared.

Posted by: Slash Buzz at December 12, 2025 12:34 AM (FstDi)

316
Oh, this is the ONT. I guess I can get that Nothing Will Happen sock off that works in every afternoon news thread.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:34 AM (1N/bM)

317 Here is the key to never having to do laundry again.

Dry the bras on high heat.

Posted by: Reforger at December 12, 2025 12:36 AM (TAT25)

318 Something that I think is a complete scam is dryer lint traps. I have never even had to clean one. [...] Or, and this is the craziest possibility, I’m really just including it for completion sake, maybe my wife was always diligently cleaning it out instead.
Posted by: banana Dream

The wife is cleaning it.
Posted by: Berserker

Or all your clothes are made of PVC.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: mikeski at December 12, 2025 12:36 AM (nhCoE)

319 If Trump gets his way the Western Hemisphere will be clear of communists. It may not be perfect by foreign power and money will be greatly diminished and the people (every jungle rat will have internet) will have much more sway over governments.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:37 AM (xgeFZ)

320 Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:30 AM (Rh0Gp)

The wife is cleaning it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 12:31 AM (snZF9)

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Yes. Mr. Scary doesn't often look at ours. A while back he said "you really keep it cleaned out!" D'uh! Was my reply.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:37 AM (6p0Jv)

321 The biggest problem with the party list:

No Vinnie, Rex and Dimebag.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 12:38 AM (1zOXE)

322 Saw some clips of Milei after speaking in a town square. He was surrounded by thousands of people wanting to just touch him. The world is ready to be free of tyrants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:39 AM (xgeFZ)

323 Hi, Blondie!

Haha, there's another Harley ad that uses some of the same footage, but is also awesome:

https://youtu.be/LXWZf55KZt8

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:39 AM (rdVOm)

324
Every load, the lint screen gets full in my experience.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

325 309 I've camped at the Grand Canyon North Rim. No snow but it was in the 20s at night. It was cold.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (6p0Jv)

7,000 ft elevation. Because the plateau doesn’t look mountainous, it’s easy to forget how high you are.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 12:40 AM (jr4TK)

326 Here is the key to never having to do laundry again.

Dry the bras on high heat.
Posted by: Reforger
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Do not recommend. Bras are *ridiculously* expensive.

It'll cost ya!!!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

327 I'm having lint problems. I need to replace the dogs.
However, being lazy I searched Amazon for a solution. For sale are various objects the vendors claims will capture lint from the water.
The reviews say otherwise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:42 AM (xgeFZ)

328 Every load, the lint screen gets full in my experience.
Posted by: publius

Buy some new bath towels, and you can empty it 2-4 times per load.

And make another new bath towel out of all the lint you recover.

Posted by: mikeski at December 12, 2025 12:42 AM (nhCoE)

329 7,000 ft elevation. Because the plateau doesn’t look mountainous, it’s easy to forget how high you are.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 12:40 AM (jr4TK)

It was wonderful. Not crowded. There was hiking. We rode a mule. It was worth being cold at night

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:46 AM (6p0Jv)

330 318 Delurking -

House party
—————-
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys
The Cramps
X
X-Ray Spex
Generation X
Circle Jerks
James Brown

Merry Christmas to all - what an extraordinary group of talented people gather here every night; hard not to wake the wife from the not infrequent belly laughs caused by the various stories shared.
Posted by: Slash Buzz
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Generation X - early Billy Idol. Excellent choice. Thanks for delurking.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:46 AM (41CYW)

331 Dryer lint is extremely flammable. Save some in a waterproof container for starting campfires. Or for the Burning Times, whatever.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

332 Hello y’all. Delurking as requested to say hi. I am currently somewhere in the southeastern Caribbean sailing on an anniversary celebration journey with the Mrs. It’s been a great time so far. Best to all of you!

Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (sYc19)

333
272

And that’s my house and the superfund location 2. I live on the firing solution for an over half century old Army training base. The Army provided me with a helpful pamphlet on what very boring thing to do when I find a shell and no guidance on what to bonk it real good with.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (Rh0Gp)

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And just think -- in 20 years I can retire!

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (azNOR)

334 >>Trump is not going to start a boots-on-the-ground regime change war. He's just making Maduro an offer he can't refuse. This is the Donroe doctrine, reasserting American control of our hemisphere. Chicoms and Iran and even Rooskies have been encroaching, thanks to Biden weakness. Donnie Two Scoops is putting his foot down. Maduro is the example being made.

One of the worst parts of our current clickbait society is that most people listen to the media spin not what people say, particularly not Trump.

It's not a mystery what Trump is doing if people listen to what he says.

The Monroe Doctrine.

https://tinyurl.com/ypnf3hp7

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 12:48 AM (viF8m)

335 335 Hello y’all. Delurking as requested to say hi. I am currently somewhere in the southeastern Caribbean sailing on an anniversary celebration journey with the Mrs. It’s been a great time so far. Best to all of you!
Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo
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That's a helluva delurk. Enjoy your travels and happy anniversary.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:49 AM (41CYW)

336 Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo

Congrats on your anniversary! Happy sailing!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

337 334 Dryer lint is extremely flammable. Save some in a waterproof container for starting campfires. Or for the Burning Times, whatever.
Posted by: JQ
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My aunt's favorite saying, Burn the house down and run off by the light of the fire.

She had that approach to life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:49 AM (xgeFZ)

338 Had some excitement in this little town tonight. Two semis caught fire and some pressurized tanks exploded about a half mile from here. Pretty sure I heard the walls and windows rattle five separate times. Seems to be all calm now, though.

Bonus, found out my 2 meter HT can receive the fire department frequencies.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 12, 2025 12:49 AM (lUFok)

339 Hi, my name is reason, and I'm a long time reader, occasional poster, mostly lurker now.

Posted by: reason at December 12, 2025 12:50 AM (B5sfV)

340 JQ, my Dad is a retired Fire Marshal. You betcha I was taught to keep thaf dryer lint cleaned out.

And PSA to the Horde: don't burn Christmas wrapping paper in your fireplace. Good chance it will set your chimney on fire.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:51 AM (6p0Jv)

341 Epic Games is giving away Hogwarts Legacy this week, if that would be of interest to anyone.

Posted by: Methos at December 12, 2025 12:51 AM (vSvIl)

342 338 335 Hello y’all. Delurking as requested to say hi. I am currently somewhere in the southeastern Caribbean sailing on an anniversary celebration journey with the Mrs. It’s been a great time so far. Best to all of you!
Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo
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Be careful around the islands that's where the 'fishing boats' are and there may be some big steel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:51 AM (xgeFZ)

343 >>> Dryer lint is extremely flammable. Save some in a waterproof container for starting campfires. Or for the Burning Times, whatever.
Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

It makes a great fuel source.

Posted by: The Lizard People at December 12, 2025 12:52 AM (Rh0Gp)

344 And PSA to the Horde: don't burn Christmas wrapping paper in your fireplace. Good chance it will set your chimney on fire.

Next you'll tell me in a pile under the Christmas tree is a bad idea, too.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 12, 2025 12:53 AM (lUFok)

345 Hello y’all. Delurking as requested to say hi. I am currently somewhere in the southeastern Caribbean sailing on an anniversary celebration journey with the Mrs. It’s been a great time so far. Best to all of you!

Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (sYc19)

Hello!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:53 AM (6p0Jv)

346 I'm following orders and delurking. I was in Costco yesterday and there were no signs of Christmas, except holiday treats in one section. I was shocked, and a little sad not to see the pretty Christmas decor for sale. I predict swimsuits will be on the sales tables next week.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at December 12, 2025 12:54 AM (FFn+L)

347 “The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers,”
_Botta Bing Bottom Line

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:54 AM (xgeFZ)

348 dryer lint is flammable but only cotton lint is any good for kindling. I've tried general mixed lint and it didn't work nearly as well as i expected. the various different fibers, and whatever anti-flammable chemicals they put into kids clothes and bedding made for a lackluster starter.

I'll take those little firestarter cubes that come in a yellow box with me on campouts.

This concludes tonight's lesson from Scoutmaster Reason.

Posted by: reason at December 12, 2025 12:54 AM (B5sfV)

349 When the kids were little and we used to do a lot of arts and crafts around the house I had a recipe for a dryer lint modeling compound. It was lint, and wheat flour, maybe self-rising flour and some oil of some kind, clove I think. We used to make some fun stuff with that. I never had a shortage of lint.

Hi Blondie.

JQ, I loved that Harley Christmas ad, I don't remember it from way back when.

vmom, I hope that you feel better and can come to the Christmas party on Saturday. I am making your chicken wings from the Deplorable cookbook. They are so, so good.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 12:55 AM (0nHVk)

350 342 Hi, my name is reason, and I'm a long time reader, occasional poster, mostly lurker now.
Posted by: reason
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A fine trilogy. If JQ or Miklos are around, they'll set you up with a drink - they don't let me behind the bar anymore.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:56 AM (41CYW)

351
Woman gives birth in driverless taxi carrying her to hospital:

https://is.gd/dRggbC

That is just, yep, dystopian indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

352 Back in the day when we used to drink whiskey, Crown Royal was the standard stocking stuffer. Not so much since the COVID delusion.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 12:57 AM (1zOXE)

353 Miklos (N7hqt)

What did you do *this* time?

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:57 AM (rdVOm)

354 Posted by: scampydog
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Hey! I recognize those names and yours. I also have arrived tonight pre-nebriated.

A couple fingers of TX was tonight's poison of choice.

Posted by: reason at December 12, 2025 12:59 AM (B5sfV)

355 Doggo-- Miklos' posts are disappearing. (N7hqt)

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:59 AM (rdVOm)

356 Ugggg.
Longest balf hour of the day just started. The half hour before I get off work.

Posted by: Reforger at December 12, 2025 01:00 AM (TAT25)

357 scampy, I can't go behind the bar anymore, I get too easily distracted.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 01:01 AM (0nHVk)

358 I still have never understood the admiration for Nirvana.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (4786I)

The economy was pretty good in the 90s, so I imagine it was fun to complain and whine about how everything sucked, knowing things were actually pretty good overall. This is based on zero research, I was a teenager in the 90s and enjoying Nirvana, but this seems like a possible explanation for this type of music at that time, in hindsight.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at December 12, 2025 01:01 AM (FFn+L)

359 328 309 I've camped at the Grand Canyon North Rim. No snow but it was in the 20s at night. It was cold.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (6p0Jv)

7,000 ft elevation. Because the plateau doesn’t look mountainous, it’s easy to forget how high you are.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I visited there in the mid 90s. I think we just got there right after they opened for the season. May? Anyway, there was A LOT of snow on the ground.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 12, 2025 01:01 AM (C26rB)

360 >>“The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers,”
_Botta Bing Bottom Line

That was the original intent under Monroe. Today the threat is from China and Iran and proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which have been active in Latin and South America for years with Venezuela being ground zero.

The drug boats are a symptom. Bigger game afoot.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 01:02 AM (viF8m)

361 I went to a place with self serve beers on tap. It didn't work so great. Actual bartenders are appreciated.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 01:02 AM (6p0Jv)

362 Make Miklos Visible Again, I will place this next to my Free Miklos sticker on the car.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 01:02 AM (0nHVk)

363 Doggo-- Miklos' posts are disappearing. (N7hqt)
Posted by: JQ

Not to let the cat out of the bag, but "rainman on tap" isn't rainman, it's Miklos making fun of rainman. He might have gotten caught by the wide-area banhammer.

Posted by: mikeski at December 12, 2025 01:03 AM (nhCoE)

364 Miklos is an institution. Has he been banned?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 01:06 AM (6p0Jv)

365 Remember that time when Rainman formed a complete sentence?

Posted by: Reforger at December 12, 2025 01:06 AM (TAT25)

366 D'oh! "raindumbass on tap"

That makes sense, mikeski. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

367 358 Doggo-- Miklos' posts are disappearing. (N7hqt)
Posted by: JQ
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Damnit...Mikos is a comment treasure. I can zap, but not unzap - magic wand is limited as part timer cob status. Will need CBD to address.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 01:07 AM (41CYW)

368 I still have never understood the admiration for Nirvana.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM
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Seconded. I never liked them even when i was an angsty teenager in the 90s. And that is really saying something, because i was a weirdo who listened to some serious garbage.

Posted by: reason at December 12, 2025 01:08 AM (B5sfV)

369 >>> Make Miklos Visible Again, I will place this next to my Free Miklos sticker on the car.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 01:02 AM (0nHVk)

I only buy Miklos Safe Tuna. Look for the label.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 01:09 AM (Rh0Gp)

370 If Trump gets his way the Western Hemisphere will be clear of communists. It may not be perfect by foreign power and money will be greatly diminished and the people (every jungle rat will have internet) will have much more sway over governments.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:37 AM (xgeFZ)

He'd better get after it. There's a metric fuckton of them here in Canada, and in the USA.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 01:09 AM (npFr7)

371 I still have never understood the admiration for Nirvana.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM
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Seconded. I never liked them even when i was an angsty teenager in the 90s. And that is really saying something, because i was a weirdo who listened to some serious garbage.

Posted by: reason

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Third. Cobain didn't speak for me.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 01:12 AM (6p0Jv)

372 Woman gives birth in driverless taxi carrying her to hospital:

https://is.gd/dRggbC

That is just, yep, dystopian indeed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

I hope they hose that bad boy out before they send it to the next customer

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 12, 2025 01:13 AM (pIfcn)

373
I saw the Raimondo On Tap sock comment. I thought it stayed up for a while. I wonder if that is somehow what tripped the hammer, or if it was just his IP/hash from the get-go somehow.

If he's got any way to easily force and IP change, that might do it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 01:13 AM (w6EFb)

374 >> I hope they hose that bad boy out before they send it to the next customer

The article mentioned the vehicle was currently being cleaned. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 01:15 AM (w6EFb)

375 I will place this next to my Free Miklos sticker on the car.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Ima use "free my Willie" next time at the Country Bunker on Ladies Nite
Posted by: Miklos has a new pickup line, will get a babe or a bruise or both at December 12, 2025 01:16 AM (N7hqt)
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LOL! Hope CBD frees you soon, Miklos!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

376 kitchen clean, cookies packed, dog walked for the night.

Wolfus, if it were a better song musically, instead of a dirge, I could buy that it (the behavior) was an aberration.

My impression of that relationship was more of Harrison and Clapton sharing a muse of sorts, really an it-girl model who was basically a groupie, but who had a career other than just screwing rock stars.

They competed, and she bounced back and forth.

And yes, he had his dreg/drug period like many of them did.

It ain't his best, in any way shape or form, and the sentiment (from my point of view) is just kind of gross.

If it speaks to someone positively, chacun a son gout.

There are people who love "Imagine", too!

Good night for the duration.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 12, 2025 01:18 AM (enw9G)

377 >>He'd better get after it. There's a metric fuckton of them here in Canada, and in the USA.

Wait until people understand where the tanker full of Venezuelan oil was heading. Pretty sure they know in Tehran and Beijing.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 01:18 AM (viF8m)

378 >>>Third. Cobain didn't speak for me.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

>Dude wrote a song about rape. Fucking mentally disturbed. Never thought much about Nirvana.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 01:19 AM (1zOXE)

379 Third. Cobain didn't speak for me.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Fourth.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 01:20 AM (41CYW)

380 Third. Cobain didn't speak for me.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Fourth.
Posted by: scampydog
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Can't say that I knew much about Nirvana back then. And when Kurt made his final headline, I was like: "Who?"

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

381 Dryer lint is extremely flammable. Save some in a waterproof container for starting campfires. Or for the Burning Times, whatever.
Posted by: JQ

Interrigation.
That or timer fuse wrapped around the subjects legs and up the ass crack.. ue will tell you his mother is a nazi- commie- capatilist

Posted by: Operator Error at December 12, 2025 01:26 AM (j0hB7)

382 >>@322 as long as we have greedy capitalists we will have socialists and communists.

As long as we have socialists and communists, we will have guns.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 01:26 AM (viF8m)

383 Rainmandodo-- all your "socialists and communists" are really closeted capitalists. They're just jealous that they don't have the big bux.

Even the Soviets allowed capitalism, but only for their privileged class.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)

384 Lurker here.

Posted by: burrrton at December 12, 2025 01:29 AM (jmz64)

385 Socialists, communists lovers always fall for the logical fallacy that they exist due to alleged "greed" of capitalism. Politely, it's intellectually lazy. Impolitely, it's a lack of...well we know.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 01:30 AM (41CYW)

386 I submit that the socialists and commies are, in fact, the "greedy" ones.

Always with their gimme, gimme, gimme... wanting a cut of somebody else's earnings.

Get a fking job! Invent something! Don't expect other people to pick up YOUR SLACK!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm)

387 I still have never understood the admiration for Nirvana.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM
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Who ?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 12, 2025 01:34 AM (j0hB7)

388 388 Lurker here.
Posted by: burrrton
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Cheers.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 01:37 AM (41CYW)

389 Here is the key to never having to do laundry again.

Dry the bras on high heat.
Posted by: Reforger
------------

Do not recommend. Bras are *ridiculously* expensive.

It'll cost ya!!!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

I do my laundry, mrs B does hers. Her laundry has more requirements and steps than it takes to build a frigging missile. These get washed this way, on this cycle, with this soap. Those get washed that way with this cycle and water temp. Don't get me started on the dryer. these get dries for this many minutes, these get taken out and hung, the rest goes for this many more minutes...eh fangool...do it yourself.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 01:38 AM (snZF9)

390 The Stones had some disturbing songs. Overall I liked them but some of their songs pushed the envelope sort of speak.
Never cared for Nirvana.

Posted by: Case at December 12, 2025 01:39 AM (G1OIb)

391 >Dude wrote a song about rape. Fucking mentally disturbed. Never thought much about Nirvana.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 01:19 AM (1zOXE)

The song titled Rape Me is not what it might seem based on the title. Definitely not a pro rape song.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at December 12, 2025 01:45 AM (FFn+L)

392 >>Socialism is christianity applied to economics.

Said by a retard who knows nothing about Christianity or economics.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 01:46 AM (viF8m)

393 Pretty fond of huerfano's list up-thread there. Perhaps add in Guy Clark, Bob Wills, Asleep to the Wheel, Corb Lund, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 01:46 AM (vd6bO)

394 Got drug/guilted into a meeting today - software solution. Dude was from Toronto. Saw one of us wearing a USA hat and went on a polite rant. He is fed up with Canada. Said the populus are too reprogrammed to fight their gov't - his country looks nothing like it did in his youth (and he is young, mid-30's). He is living in Central America while trying to LEGALLY gain his US citizenship. Interesting conversation.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 01:46 AM (41CYW)

395 Rainmandodo-- your marxist professors are lying to you.

Read some books that were published before 1970.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 01:48 AM (rdVOm)

396 >>>The song titled Rape Me is not what it might seem based on the title. Definitely not a pro rape song.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara

>Also definitely not a song I want coming up on the DJ playlist at one of my parties. Kurt was disturbed and no band that I was any part of would sing about rape.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 01:49 AM (1zOXE)

397 Sweet dreams, Horde, sleep beckons.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 01:51 AM (0nHVk)

398 G'night, DDS. See you at the Christmas Party.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 01:52 AM (41CYW)

399 If people only listened to musicians who weren't disturbed, there wouldn't be much music to choose from.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at December 12, 2025 01:52 AM (FFn+L)

400 So I was ordered, as a lurker, to comment tonight. I've been a lurker a VERY long time and mostly didn't comment because I didn't feel I had much to add to what is already a pretty active community. But the order was received, so here I am. I've probably been reading stuff here for at least 12 years (really starting with the infamous Kaboom post), and now I'm commenting.

I hope y'all are happy.

Posted by: CRM919 at December 12, 2025 01:54 AM (PBtLT)

401
If it's not too cloudy, I've got an almost ideal window to see the ISS pass overhead this morning starting around 6:34AM. It will be almost perfect, sunlit the whole time as morning is approaching, and pop up to the SW, get pretty high and set to the NE. Total of 7 minutes about the horizon, and visible the whole time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 01:58 AM (w6EFb)

402 Can't blame you, is be real interested myself. If I were awake at 6:34am.

Posted by: CRM919 at December 12, 2025 02:00 AM (PBtLT)

403 So I was ordered, as a lurker, to comment tonight. I've been a lurker a VERY long time and mostly didn't comment because I didn't feel I had much to add to what is already a pretty active community. But the order was received, so here I am. I've probably been reading stuff here for at least 12 years (really starting with the infamous Kaboom post), and now I'm commenting.

I hope y'all are happy.
Posted by: CRM919
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12 years is a lot of scrolling. Welcome to the comments, and a hat tip to the mention of possibly the greatest Ace post ever.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 02:02 AM (41CYW)

404 *buys drinks for all the lurkers what de-lurked tonight*

Cheers! Thanks for de-lurking!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

405 404 If people only listened to musicians who weren't disturbed, there wouldn't be much music to choose from.
_-_
Everyone is a little wacko, but it is good to try and aim high / not drag the bottom all the time.

Speaking of which, I watched that Piers Morgan interview with Nick Fuentes the other day, thinking I would learn why people hate Fuentes( had never heard from him before), but I came away thinking what a turd Morgan is and how rotten and stupid-sounding the culture he (and I to and extent) grew up in is....almost wrote a coherent sentence there.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 02:03 AM (vd6bO)

406 Hey there, Don in SoCo!

Did you ever solve the fuel pressure leak-down issue? I missed it, if you posted.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:07 AM (rdVOm)

407 Everyone is a little wacko, but it is good to try and aim high / not drag the bottom all the time.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 02:03 AM (vd6bO)

I don't check musicians' resumes before deciding if I like a song or not. I either like stuff I don't, like anyone else. I enjoy jazz music and most of those guys were/are total scumbags or OD'd on heroin. Excellent music, though.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at December 12, 2025 02:09 AM (FFn+L)

408 Still here. Messing with an old (1937?) Westinghouse battery-operated "farm" radio. Every piece of wire in it is rubber-insulated, and the rubber is crumbling. All will have to be replaced.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 02:12 AM (npFr7)

409 I believe every disturbed musician should put a shotgun to their head and pull the trigger. We'll all be better off for this, amirite?

Sex, drugs and rock and roll! Occupational hazard.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 02:13 AM (1zOXE)

410 All will have to be replaced.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 02:12 AM

The Radio of Theseus?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 12, 2025 02:15 AM (IrhVe)

411 Cool, AOP!

I miss 'tinkering'-- seems like my list keeps filling with 'gotta-do' things instead of fun, frivolous things. Sad!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:15 AM (rdVOm)

412 Programming note: MeTV showing first season Mannix, from, what, 60 years ago?

Mannix goes into a beatnik coffee house.
Neil Diamond is performing live. How little things change!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 02:16 AM (zdLoL)

413 414 I believe every disturbed musician should put a shotgun to their head and pull the trigger. We'll all be better off for this, amirite?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 02:13 AM (1zOXE)

Speaking of disturbed...

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at December 12, 2025 02:17 AM (FFn+L)

414 I411 Hey there, Don in SoCo!

Did you ever solve the fuel pressure leak-down issue? I missed it, if you posted
Hey, JQ! Thanks for asking.
I kinda went nuts on the thing and bought a slightly larger fuel tank, new fuel pump, multiport fuel injectors, fuel filter, and a new exhaust manifold. I looked at the underside of the exhaust manifold, and found a large crack. Figured if I have to replace it,I might as well go all out and do the injectors and the fuel pump. Mostly an excuse to spend time with my oldest boy, anyway. I'm not just going to do this one for him, so, over the Christmas break...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 02:18 AM (vd6bO)

415
Season 1 of Mannix was 1967, the year I was born. And I've seen the Neil Diamond episode a time or two.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 02:19 AM (w6EFb)

416 Pinch hit ONT post was fun. Thanks Horde and Doof. G'night and see you at the Club ONT Christmas Party on Saturday.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 02:21 AM (41CYW)

417 414 I believe every disturbed musician should put a shotgun to their head and pull the trigger. We'll all be better off for this, amirite?
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Pity, so many people leading from the rear.

Posted by: clarence at December 12, 2025 02:21 AM (JwHY3)

418 >>>Speaking of disturbed...

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara

>Nobody who commits suicide is a hero. I think there's something in the bible about that. Your religious belief may vary.

Suicide is painless.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 02:22 AM (1zOXE)

419 Wow, Don! Now *that's* a project!

Good that you'll be spending quality time with son AND teaching him important stuff.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

420
Season 1 of Mannix didn't do so hot in the ratings. It was Lucy, running Desilu at the time who fixed, personally retooling it. Lucy gave use the Mannix we know and love.

She knew good TV.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 02:24 AM (w6EFb)

421 Little help here, please.

DH called me from the ER. He was at another doc appt, trying to get his hip pain fixed. Spiked a hideously high BP. They sent him immediately to the ER.

I was at the vet with itchy dogs, finding out they probably have lice.

So, I drive a good 30 miles through rush hour Wasilla, to find DH at ER, who has received a nice high dose of morphine to get his hip to not torture him, and his BP is back down. Not my favorite way to spend the afternoon.

I drove his ass home, and he puked twice on the way. Morphine is a bitch mistress.

Anyway, he doesn't get real pain relief until next Thursday, when they inject his hip with some damned thing that supposed to block the nerve action. One day after I have shoulder surgery.

Fucking hell. So, any prayers you have to offer would be lovely.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 02:25 AM (6Bc88)

422 423

>Nobody who commits suicide is a hero. I think there's something in the bible about that. Your religious belief may vary.

Suicide is painless.
----

Suicide is ending the pain. Then you have to deal with it the next time around.

Posted by: clarence at December 12, 2025 02:25 AM (JwHY3)

423 Don-- don't forget about that missing piece on the regulator. May need to re-do that, if there's still a leak-down issue.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

424 I don't check musicians' resumes before deciding if I like a song or not.
_-_
Yeah, me neither. It's the product I'm interested in...when I say not dragging the bottom, I mean in terms of lyrics. Too much darkness can drown you.

IAs an example, I never personally cared for John Prine that much, but pretty hard over on one or two of his songs.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 02:25 AM (vd6bO)

425 423 >>>Speaking of disturbed...

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara

>Nobody who commits suicide is a hero. I think there's something in the bible about that. Your religious belief may vary.

Suicide is painless.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 02:22 AM (1zOXE)

Suicides are cowards.

I have been on both sides of this argument.

Suicides are cowards.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 02:26 AM (6Bc88)

426 So, at the ER tonight, there was a boy in a closed room who was in agony, just wailing for his mom. I think they gave him two shots of thorazine, his mind was in agony. I spent more time praying for peace for him than I did praying for DH's blood pressure to subside.

Damn, the agony in the world gets to me sometimes.

You can't run away from your own brain.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 02:28 AM (6Bc88)

427 428 Don-- don't forget about that missing piece on the regulator. May need to re-do that, if there's still a leak-down issue.
_-_
You have an excellent memory. I ordered a new regulator, thinking it would have that piece with it, but the new one came with no o-rings at all...nuts...now I think I need to figure out the name of such a thing so I can locate a new one.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 02:29 AM (vd6bO)

428 Tcn, you got it! Prayers for all of you!

Can you get dr. to call in a script for Zofran for hubby? I puke at the mere thought of narcotic painkillers... They make tabs that dissolve/act quickly for nausea.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:29 AM (rdVOm)

429 I ordered a new regulator, thinking it would have that piece with it, but the new one came with no o-rings at all...nuts...now I think I need to figure out the name of such a thing so I can locate a new one.
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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I'd take the regulator back & tell them it's not the same... Possibly the package you got was opened and raided for the o-rings and/or that other part.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:32 AM (rdVOm)

430 I'd take the regulator back & tell them it's not the same... Possibly the package you got was opened and raided for the o-rings and/or that other part.
_-_
Yeah, good ol' Amazon...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 02:35 AM (vd6bO)

431 @433 Well noted JQ. There is very little chance I will ever get addicted to any of the painkiller/narcotic formulas I've ever been given. On the one hand, I feel the Lord has been good to me that way. But when you present with kidney stone pain and what they give you to unclench it makes you violently retch for hours, it has a counter-productive side. Toughens you up and teaches you a lesson, if you could just figure out what the lesson is.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 02:36 AM (zdLoL)

432 Yeah, good ol' Amazon...
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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Ugh! Did you get the *first* regulator from amz too?

Hit up an auto parts store...

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

433 Damn, the agony in the world gets to me sometimes.
_-_
I hear ya. Daughter of mine has matured dramatically working her first 6 months as ICU nurse. Sees a lot of suffering...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 02:38 AM (vd6bO)

434 Can you get dr. to call in a script for Zofran for hubby? I puke at the mere thought of narcotic painkillers... They make tabs that dissolve/act quickly for nausea.
Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:29 AM (rdVOm)

He has that, but it takes time, and the morphine is an auto-puke drug.

He finally kept down some dinner, thank God.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2025 02:39 AM (6Bc88)

435 Ugh! Did you get the *first* regulator from amz too?

Hit up an auto parts store...
First one was NAPA...just need to name that plastic washer...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 02:41 AM (vd6bO)

436 Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 02:36 AM
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I had a "day-surgery"-- outpatient, but full knockout. When they helped me stand to get dressed? RAAAAALLLLLFFFF!!! So nurse put me back in bed, left for a moment and came back with Phenergan (rectal) which worked almost immediately. Handed hubby a bag with several more doses in it. Yeeeesh.

Much prefer the dissolving Zofran, but for violent retching, the butt bullets work well too.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:43 AM (rdVOm)

437 First one was NAPA...just need to name that plastic washer...
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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I'd go back to NAPA and tell what happened. Bet they can help!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:44 AM (rdVOm)

438 I'd go back to NAPA and tell what happened. Bet they can help!
Good idea.

Butt bullets...never heard that term before. I read somewhere that the preferred administration method of drugs is pills for Americans, injections for Germans, suppositories for the French

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 02:51 AM (vd6bO)

439 He has that, but it takes time, and the morphine is an auto-puke drug.

He finally kept down some dinner, thank God.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Glad hubby's gotten some nourishment!

They say "stay ahead of the pain"-- well, people like us need to "stay ahead of the puke" also. Ugh. Sorry!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:52 AM (rdVOm)

440 Trump pardoned Tina Peters.
It's been good. Y'all have a good evening. 'night.

Posted by: braenyard at December 12, 2025 02:53 AM (EjQb2)

441 LOL, Don!

Yeah, I shouldn't use such crude terms.

"Suppository" form of Phenergan.
------------

Antiemetics can cause constipation also. Add narcotics, and one's stool can turn into a wicker chair IYKWIM...

Might want to pick up some *softener* for hubby, tcn.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:58 AM (rdVOm)

442 I miss 'tinkering'-- seems like my list keeps filling with 'gotta-do' things instead of fun, frivolous things. Sad!
Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 02:15 AM (rdVOm)

Well, done for the night. Got two capacitors replaced, and the pair of wires that go to the output transformer, mounted on the speaker frame. I think I will gut out all the wires that went to the various batteries, and build an outboard power supply that can provided the A, B(2), and C voltages. Control that by the power switch on the panel. There is an octal socket on the rear chassis apron already there for that purpose. I need only reconfigure it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 02:59 AM (npFr7)

443 @441 I'll venture a weak "LOL" because this year all my health news has been marginally favorable to great. But that sure takes me back to some times when it wasn't, and when discussing induced nausea "I don't want to talk about it" is a pretty good policy.

As it was doc-splained to me, phenergan is a synthesized form of some element from South American tree bark, bringing up images of deathly sick jungle tribesmen stripping the bark off every tree they run into -- and the pusher, a guy on the corner in a Panama hat and trenchcoat going "Yo, kid -- wanna quit pukin'?"

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 03:04 AM (zdLoL)

444 440 Trump pardoned Tina Peters.
It's been good. Y'all have a good evening. 'night.
Posted by: braenyard at December 12, 2025 02:53 AM (EjQb2)

could be interesting... is the President, who has the power to Pardon throughout the United States, not have the ability to give a pardon to a subordinate State?

the constitutions says the Prezzy can Pardon for things 'against the United States'... does that just define the Feds? or, are we, the United States?

Could be argued either way.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 12, 2025 03:05 AM (mP0Kj)

445 Well, 0100 here, and my eyelids are getting heavy. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2025 03:06 AM (npFr7)

446 Could be argued either way.
At a minimum, it makes our guv look bad if he opposes it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 12, 2025 03:09 AM (vd6bO)

447 'Night, AOP

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm)

448 the constitutions says the Prezzy can Pardon for things 'against the United States'... does that just define the Feds? or, are we, the United States?

Could be argued either way.
Posted by: Romeo13

Did they charge under Federal or State law? If they charged her under Federal statute, then CO is hosed.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2025 03:18 AM (mlg/3)

449 I seem to be up a hour early

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 03:18 AM (Ia/+0)

450 Saw that pardon yesterday, but no idea who Tina is

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 03:22 AM (Ia/+0)

451 Ohhhhh, a convicted crime against the Marxists questioning their fraud election

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 03:37 AM (Ia/+0)

452 That's 3, I'll go put on coffee and wait for I r Pixy

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2025 03:38 AM (Ia/+0)

453 Twilight Zone, Skip. All alone in the world.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2025 03:58 AM (zdLoL)

454 Up in time to be will willowed.
House 2 for me with Rush. No other house has a band in my top 20. (Where are Yes & Asia)

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at December 12, 2025 04:00 AM (KaHlS)

455 Push the button, Max!

Posted by: clarence at December 12, 2025 04:04 AM (JwHY3)

456 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at December 12, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

457 Delurk sounds like an early 80s Eurotrash band.

Posted by: TxDan at December 12, 2025 06:38 AM (x6mGV)

Cuteness Overload Cafe

A photographer shoots portraits of senior dogs
to bring attention to these experienced puppers

L'il sleepyhead.

Pygmy marmosets dining on peas. This is cute: A pygmy marmoset pets an insect.

More "Strandbeasts" or "Beach Animals." This is actually not AI. Just some sticks, some serious engineering know-how, some wind, and a lot of free time. The artist calls these weird creations "kinetic sculptures."

An oldie: A dog decides he's really what the paying public came out to see.

A, B, H. Always Be Herding. Always Be Herding.

Some kind of crazy Loony Toons situation.

Weinerdog raceway.

Dog wants to know if he can keep the dog he found.

#Goals.

Sea otters rub their faces to groom their fur; driving out moisture, adding air, and spreading natural oils secreted by their skin.pic.twitter.com/zPHt28zn6I
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) December 11, 2025

Bear cub.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/ybxlp5OSTR
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 11, 2025

Little baby..😅 pic.twitter.com/01KkfrRDgX
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 11, 2025

Baby pandas in the snow.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/fCZGTpOIcb
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 11, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:35 PM

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

2 lol first!

Posted by: Bryce at December 11, 2025 07:35 PM (5GspC)

3 Got all my holiday cards done today.

Some got Christmas cards; others got Krampus cards.

You know what you did.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 11, 2025 07:35 PM (kpS4V)

4 Yowza!

Posted by: Bryce at December 11, 2025 07:36 PM (5GspC)

5 hola chamucos y chamucas

Posted by: alpine_beer at December 11, 2025 07:37 PM (van9r)

6 Pandas have to be a AI creation, no animals just have fun and eat and nothing else

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 07:38 PM (Ia/+0)

7 More morons and lurkers will read this post than bought Olivia Nuzzi's book last week.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 07:39 PM (gKWVE)

8 That otter make Nurse happy.
:-)

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 07:40 PM (2WIwB)

9 Only creature dumber than a panda is a baby panda.

Posted by: Somalis of the Bear World at December 11, 2025 07:40 PM (oftw2)

10 I bet Nuzzi's book was written by AI.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:41 PM (17l0u)

11 6 Pandas aren’t much into having sex. So, yeah, probably AI.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 07:41 PM (77rzZ)

12 6 Pandas aren’t much into having sex. So, yeah, probably AI.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 07:41 PM (77rzZ)

13 6 Pandas aren’t much into having sex. So, yeah, probably AI.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 07:41 PM (77rzZ)

14 Nice triple Lindy, bulg

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:41 PM (17l0u)

15 Sorry for the multiple postings. I hope that’s not a Barrelable offense:

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 07:42 PM (77rzZ)

16 Are marmosets counted as monkeys? Lemurs aren't. [looks it up]
Huh. Platyrrhines. So new-world paramonkeys.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 07:43 PM (gKWVE)

17 Some good news

@amuse 3m
PARDON! Trump has pardoned Tina Peters. The pardon will likely be challenged by Democrats sending the issue to the Supreme Court.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 07:43 PM (mlg/3)

18 Sea otters!

Squeeeeee! There’s a new souther sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium. Her name is Ruby. I will go and visit her SOON!

🦦

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 07:43 PM (Cynha)

19 Can black pepper upset a dogs digestive system? The plate I used to prepare a steak (lotsa fresh ground pepper and some sea salt) is the same one on which I placed the steak as it came off the grill. Nice juicy plate, though with cracked pepper about.

Lily the 20 pound corgi lapped it clean.

She gonna be OK?

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 11, 2025 07:43 PM (KiBMU)

20 Are pandas in to having sex?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 07:43 PM (KDPiq)

21 Somebody unplug Bulg and then plug him back in.

Posted by: Socket To Me? at December 11, 2025 07:43 PM (oftw2)

22 There was a neat website about 20 years ago or so that had "soda" in it's name, that let you build models like those kinetic stick sculptures. Nearly identical really. Very complex models. Soda short for soda straw.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:44 PM (3uBP9)

23 Lemurs are primates, but not monkeys.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 07:44 PM (77rzZ)

24 Squeeeeee! There’s a new souther sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium. Her name is Ruby. I will go and visit her SOON!

🦦
Posted by: nurse ratched

Does she squeak in a lilting drawl?

Posted by: Southern Fried Fred at December 11, 2025 07:45 PM (oftw2)

25 Learning to match the beat of the Old World Monkey

Learning to catch the heat of the Third World Monkey

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:47 PM (3uBP9)

26 I hear that the southern sea otters are the tastiest ones.

*ducks, runs away serpentine from Nurse*

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 07:47 PM (77rzZ)

27 Big Sea Otter still rules the day.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:48 PM (17l0u)

28 Can black pepper upset a dogs digestive system? The plate I used to prepare a steak (lotsa fresh ground pepper and some sea salt) is the same one on which I placed the steak as it came off the grill. Nice juicy plate, though with cracked pepper about.

Lily the 20 pound corgi lapped it clean.

She gonna be OK?
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 11, 2025 07:43 PM (KiBMU)

their system is build to process garbage and decaying flesh, so probably fine.

I remember being surprised that my cats could eat bits of buffalo wing chicken with hot sauce without a quiver...those that were tempted in the first place.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:49 PM (8avO+)

29 Tuesday was Elvis' 9th birthday. If he and I are fortunate enough for him to live long enough he is going to look almost exactly like that photo.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 07:49 PM (viF8m)

30 Neener Neener Neener
Y’all are just jelly because ace loves me!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 07:50 PM (Cynha)

31 They may be old but they're still cute little guys.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:50 PM (6ydKt)

32 Tuesday was Elvis' 9th birthday. If he and I are fortunate enough for him to live long enough he is going to look almost exactly like that photo.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 07:49 PM (viF8m)

man he sure died young!

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:51 PM (8avO+)

33 Tuesday was Elvis' 9th birthday. If he and I are fortunate enough for him to live long enough he is going to look almost exactly like that photo.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 07:49 PM (viF8m)
----
I think you misplaced a decimal point....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 07:51 PM (ESVrU)

34 Happy Birthday, Elvis.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)

35 14 Nice triple Lindy, bulg
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:41 PM (17l0u)
Say something once, why say it again?

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 07:51 PM (LHPAg)

36 In entertainment news, apparently Batman has stolen Spider-Man’s fiancée.

Robert Pattinson sure likes love triangles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 07:51 PM (XV/Pl)

37 Veterinary advice on this blog is the same as human medical advice:

Slap a hot iron on it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 07:51 PM (77rzZ)

38 Tuesday was Elvis' 9th birthday. If he and I are fortunate enough for him to live long enough he is going to look almost exactly like that photo.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 07:49 PM (viF8m)

man he sure died young!
Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:51 PM (8avO+)

Sorry, thought you were speaking of E Presley

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:52 PM (8avO+)

39 19. Pepper is an anti-inflammatory, probably good for the doggie. I put pepper in the tumeric capsules I make up for me and my dog. But the salt might cause some minor issues. Thirsty and and too much water in the guts.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 11, 2025 07:52 PM (hhkIi)

40 Pandas do in fact have sex, but not with other pandas. Any procreation is the result of artificial means or accidental.

Posted by: Panda Facts at December 11, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

41 Better turn this off.
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 07:53 PM (Ia/+0)

42 PARDON! Trump has pardoned Tina Peters. The pardon will likely be challenged by Democrats sending the issue to the Supreme Court.

I don't know offhand who Tina Peters is and I don't care enough to bingle her but I'm pretty sure the President's pardon power is not subject to judicial review. Or at least Hunter and Fauci better hope not.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 07:53 PM (3nLb4)

43 The Mini Strandbeest.

What a cool idea.

It's amazing the things people can come up with.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:53 PM (6ydKt)

44 Neener Neener Neener
Y’all are just jelly because ace loves me!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 07:50 PM (Cynha)

everyone loves the nurse....or else you get woken up for shots at 4AM

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:53 PM (8avO+)

45 Happy birthday Elvis.

May you get all the treats.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 07:54 PM (Cynha)

46 Pandas do in fact have sex, but not with other pandas. Any procreation is the result of artificial means or accidental.
Posted by: Panda Facts at December 11, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)
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The first nonhuman species to invent the sexbot?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 07:54 PM (ESVrU)

47 In entertainment news, apparently Batman has stolen Spider-Man’s fiancée.

Robert Pattinson sure likes love triangles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 07:51 PM (XV/Pl)

They aren't even in the same extended universe!

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:54 PM (8avO+)

48 Having seen some of the things a dog can and will eat, I think your pup will be ok.

Posted by: Panda Facts at December 11, 2025 07:54 PM (vFG9F)

49 >>Sorry, thought you were speaking of E Presley

Well he is a hound dog from the Ozarks so that's how he got his name.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 07:55 PM (viF8m)

50 I remember being surprised that my cats could eat bits of buffalo wing chicken with hot sauce without a quiver...those that were tempted in the first place.
Posted by: Oldcat

Not all animals can taste the same things. Obligate carnivores like cats don't need receptors for plant-based toxins like capsaicin, so maybe they don't have them?

Or maybe your cats are just hardcore.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 07:55 PM (nhCoE)

51 Those Himalayan bears eat the bamboo from the bottom, starting at the exact point where the stem meets the ground.

In other words, they panda to the base.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 07:56 PM (77rzZ)

52 >>> I don't know offhand who Tina Peters is and I don't care enough to bingle her but I'm pretty sure the President's pardon power is not subject to judicial review. Or at least Hunter and Fauci better hope not.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 07:53 PM (3nLb4)

She was thrown in the dungeon by the stupid and gay leftist regime in Colorado for being a Republican and doing her job. What they plan for all of us.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:57 PM (3uBP9)

53 I think Tina Peters was an election official in Colorado who made a copy of some data on a voting machine because she suspected fraud from the Soros SOS and was prosecuted for election tampering or some such BS. She didn't do any tampering, just made a copy of the data is what I read about the case.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 11, 2025 07:57 PM (hhkIi)

54 I remember being surprised that my cats could eat bits of buffalo wing chicken with hot sauce without a quiver...those that were tempted in the first place.
Posted by: Oldcat

Not all animals can taste the same things. Obligate carnivores like cats don't need receptors for plant-based toxins like capsaicin, so maybe they don't have them?

Or maybe your cats are just hardcore.
Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 07:55 PM (nhCoE)
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I think my cats would still vomit up the chicken...they have sensitive tummies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 07:57 PM (ESVrU)

55 ‘Night, Skip.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 07:58 PM (77rzZ)

56 Having seen some of the things a dog can and will eat, I think your pup will be ok.
Posted by: Panda Facts

Human:
Is it food?
Y) eat it
N) don't eat it.

Dog:
Eat it.
Was it food?
Y) good!
N) oh well.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 07:58 PM (nhCoE)

57 A pygmy marmoset pets an insect.
_______
Oddly, that was "age restricted". (I'm not on X.)

Posted by: Eeyore at December 11, 2025 07:58 PM (s0JqF)

58 She was thrown in the dungeon by the stupid and gay leftist regime in Colorado for being a Republican and doing her job. What they plan for all of us.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:57 PM (3uBP9)
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Interesting play from Trump. She's in prison for state offenses, not federal ones, but of course if the courts parse that out and say Trump's pardoning power does not extend to the states, the Texas and Florida AGs are going to be on Fauci like white on rice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 07:59 PM (ZOv7s)

59 >>Happy birthday Elvis.

>>May you get all the treats.

He's still got more to go. It's more like birthday week. Yes, he's very spoiled.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 08:00 PM (viF8m)

60 Damn, nurse! I heard that "squee" from here!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 11, 2025 08:00 PM (Wnv9h)

61

Our pets are far more deserving of excellent medical care than most of the shit people living in our country.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:01 PM (3ek7K)

62 A pygmy marmoset pets an insect.
_______
Oddly, that was "age restricted". (I'm not on X.)
Posted by: Eeyore

It was heavy-petting the insect?

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 08:01 PM (nhCoE)

63 If Peters can be sprung from Pen-State by the Federal Executive, then Chauvin can be sprung too.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:02 PM (gKWVE)

64 A pygmy marmoset pets an insect.
_______
Oddly, that was "age restricted". (I'm not on X.)
Posted by: Eeyore

It was heavy-petting the insect?
Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 08:01 PM (nhCoE)

The insect was below the age of consent.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 08:02 PM (8avO+)

65 Reminds me of Jaws.

They killed one and gutted it. Lot's of undigested things and a license plate.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 08:03 PM (EyfuW)

66 Pandas are kin to raccoons, just not so smart as raccoons.

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 08:03 PM (LHPAg)

67 The Corgi will be fine.

You might get sick from using the same plate for raw and cooked meat, though.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 08:04 PM (IaZ7c)

68 Red pandas >>>> Giant pandas

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:04 PM (77rzZ)

69 The insect was below the age of consent.
Posted by: Oldcat

You vil fuck ze bugz.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:04 PM (gKWVE)

70 If Peters can be sprung from Pen-State by the Federal Executive, then Chauvin can be sprung too.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:02 PM (gKWVE)
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That is another implication.

This is yet another classic Trump squeeze play. Either way, he wins. If federal pardons are ruled outside state authority, a bunch of AGs are going to issue arrest warrants for Fauci and his minions, and bunch of various hack politicians will likewise be indicted on state charges.

Trump 2.0 is savage.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 08:04 PM (ZOv7s)

71 >>>A pygmy marmoset pets an insect.

You say pet. I say investigates its edibility.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 11, 2025 08:05 PM (syz1S)

72 Hmmm no one really dug my idea for a Leftard Terror Alert Level?

Sometimes I'm just ahead of my time I guess. But I wish Trump would do it. He could also have a sign up when you enter DC

_______ Days Since the last Democrat Terror Attack

And he'd get away with it because he was shot by one. It's like being black. He can get away with a lot. He can be a professional victim now.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 08:05 PM (E0p3T)

73 Fauci was either in Dc, Maryland or Virginia. He’ll skate.

Posted by: Accomack at December 11, 2025 08:05 PM (8jVAy)

74 Every person that Trump has to pardon just shows how broken things are. Next time they'll imprison millions.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 08:05 PM (3uBP9)

75
It's all AI.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 08:06 PM (xgeFZ)

76 I remember being surprised that my cats could eat bits of buffalo wing chicken with hot sauce without a quiver...those that were tempted in the first place.
Posted by: Oldcat

Did they then pound a couple of Miller Lites, light up a Marlboro, and demand you change the channel to the Alabama game?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 11, 2025 08:06 PM (IrhVe)

77 >>> Just some sticks, some serious engineering know-how, some wind, and a lot of free time.

Land kites.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 11, 2025 08:06 PM (syz1S)

78 We’re starting to become domesticated! So that we can sponge off you humans even more efficiently than we do now!
— Raccoons

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:07 PM (77rzZ)

79 She is in poor health too. No reason for her to be in jail.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 11, 2025 08:07 PM (+mUZM)

80 74 Every person that Trump has to pardon just shows how broken things are. Next time they'll imprison millions.
Posted by: banana Dream
---

Got to build a bigger boat.
Envy those that know how to sail.
They aren't fuel limited.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 08:08 PM (xgeFZ)

81 Every person that Trump has to pardon just shows how broken things are. Next time they'll imprison millions.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 08:05 PM (3uBP9)
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They can try.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 08:09 PM (ZOv7s)

82 I just had a thought concerning the tanker seizure. Reward the immediate participants in the seizure by convening a prize court. IIRC this was last used in WW2 and it would be a great morale booster for the troops. Also, it would cause more than a few strokes among those in the TDS crowd.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 08:09 PM (gm9Sb)

83 If Peters can be sprung from Pen-State by the Federal Executive, then Chauvin can be sprung too.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:02 PM (gKWVE)
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That is another implication.

This is yet another classic Trump squeeze play. Either way, he wins. If federal pardons are ruled outside state authority, a bunch of AGs are going to issue arrest warrants for Fauci and his minions, and bunch of various hack politicians will likewise be indicted on state charges.

Trump 2.0 is savage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Shouldn't have shot him.

Trump 2.0 This Time It's Personal

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 08:10 PM (cNcja)

84 We’re starting to become domesticated! So that we can sponge off you humans even more efficiently than we do now!
— Raccoons
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:07 PM (77rzZ)

Can't wait for the insane dog/cat breeders get hold of their gene pool.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 08:10 PM (8avO+)

85 72 Hmmm no one really dug my idea for a Leftard Terror Alert Level?
--

It doesn't meet Alinskey's criteria.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 08:13 PM (xgeFZ)

86 Raccoons, unlike pandas, are really into having sex.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:14 PM (77rzZ)

87

Speaking of insane dog breeders. We have a rescue Chigi, a mix of chihuahua and corgi.

She is a wonderful addition to our lives.

We have wondered who the hell thought of breeding those two breeds. Apparently they are a "designer" dog, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:14 PM (3ek7K)

88 We've been looking for a doggo to adopt for several months. What a shitshow it is out there with shelters and rescues. If you don't want a part pitbull you're SOL. I think crazy people, women, have taken over the rescues.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 08:15 PM (uQzkA)

89 79 She is in poor health too. No reason for her to be in jail.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
-----------

She's in jail to remind you that they are merciless.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 08:16 PM (xgeFZ)

90 If federal pardons are ruled outside state authority, a bunch of AGs are going to issue arrest warrants for Fauci and his minions,
---

From you lips...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 08:18 PM (xgeFZ)

91
NCKate,

When we lost our last dog we were looking at the dog rescue sites. We would see a dog we were willing to adopt, but it turned out that a lot of the sites were bait and switch operations.

We would be told that dog is no longer available for adoption but we have all these pitbull rescues.

No dice.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:19 PM (3ek7K)

92 We've been looking for a doggo to adopt for several months. What a shitshow it is out there with shelters and rescues. If you don't want a part pitbull you're SOL. I think crazy people, women, have taken over the rescues.
Posted by: NCK

it is very rare to find any pitbulls, nearly everything is a "pit mix" and if you read the studies about those you see that there's no meaningful standard for determining what is a pit and what is not, it is usually done by visual identification and the standards vary from region to region across country.

find something you have a good report with and youre food to go

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:22 PM (7neCS)

93 Yeah so much of the rescues around here are scams too. Not sure what we will do. Things have very definitely changed in the last 15 years since we last adopted.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 08:23 PM (uQzkA)

94 Indiana GOP hands two free House seats to the Democrats in 2026.

What a bunch of retards.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 08:23 PM (l3YAf)

95
I saw a recent news item to the effect that the DOJ requested that Colorado transfer Tina Peters' charges to the Federal system, and that Colorado refused.

My understanding is that she in jail for retaining election records as required by law. Colorado created a different, conflicting law, apparently to cover their tracks, and that's the one that CO says she violated.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 08:23 PM (azNOR)

96 87 Chigi?

What is it with the capitalization of dog-breed names now? Does every damn thing have to be IP now, even dog breeds?

I should’ve trademarked “mutt” back in the day. I could’ve made a killing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:24 PM (77rzZ)

97 Yeah, shelters can get kind of creative with their breed descriptions.

I have to get a DNA test done on Reef. The shelter portrayed him as a Blue Heeler mix, which i knew was bullshit, but I liked his eye. He has rotweiler coloring but is built more like a greyhound as he has grown. He has some small ticking which means blue wheeler is in the mix.

More energy than any ten dogs I have ever had. I mean absolutely insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 08:24 PM (zZu0s)

98 "find something you have a good report with and youre food to go
Posted by: n"

Especially with pits.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 08:25 PM (vFG9F)

99 "find something you have a good report with and youre food to go
Posted by: n"

Especially with pits.
Posted by: fd

they are not any more dangerous than any other dog, its the owners.

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:26 PM (7neCS)

100 89
'She's in jail to remind you that they are merciless.'

I'd like an opportunity to be merciless.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 11, 2025 08:27 PM (fd80v)

101 I pay no attention to Candace Owens but over on X there's a big vid and thread about her asking for $ from her followers to pay for security. This is despite her husband's family being worth near a billion dollars. Griftus in unum , griftus in omnibus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:28 PM (D+mpw)

102 any news yet on Teresa?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at December 11, 2025 08:28 PM (H9K3b)

103 "they are not any more dangerous than any other dog, its the owners.
Posted by: n"

Sure. They just fell in with the wrong crowd.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 08:28 PM (vFG9F)

104 Our pets are far more deserving of excellent medical care than most of the shit people living in our country.

Posted by: four seasons

I’ve spent more on Lucy’s healthcare in the last several years than my own.

And she deserves it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 08:28 PM (tH3ut)

105 Well, this is interesting

@amuse 2m
WAR? China is rapidly militarizing its border with India, completing 36 hardened aircraft shelters at Lhunze airbase just 40 km from Arunachal Pradesh, allowing fast deployment of stealth jets and troops.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 08:29 PM (mlg/3)

106
nurse,

Amen.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:29 PM (3ek7K)

107 "they are not any more dangerous than any other dog, its the owners.
Posted by: n"

Sure. They just fell in with the wrong crowd.
Posted by: fd

have a pitmix now, nicest, kindest most gentle dog ever,

other breeds are way more vicious than pits, starting with dalmatians

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:30 PM (7neCS)

108 Last I saw a few hours ago Teresa was waiting to go under. Hopefully we hear something tonight.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 08:30 PM (uQzkA)

109 "they are not any more dangerous than any other dog, its the owners.
Posted by: n"

Sure. They just fell in with the wrong crowd.
Posted by: fd

loyalty

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:30 PM (7neCS)

110 Every person that Trump has to pardon just shows how broken things are. Next time they'll imprison millions.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 08:05 PM (3uBP9)
---
They can try.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 08:09 PM (ZOv7s)

***

Let's just cut to chase. Let them begin in my little town.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 08:31 PM (2WIwB)

111

The problem with adopting pit and pit mixes is we don't know their history. The dogs could have been taken away from bad owners.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:32 PM (3ek7K)

112 101 And this after Erika Kirk specifically asked Candace to stop talking shit about Charlie’s assassination.

Candace has gone over to the dark (oooooh — rayciss!!) side.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:32 PM (77rzZ)

113
105 Well, this is interesting

@amuse 2m
WAR? China is rapidly militarizing its border with India, completing 36 hardened aircraft shelters at Lhunze airbase just 40 km from Arunachal Pradesh, allowing fast deployment of stealth jets and troops.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 08:29 PM (mlg/3)

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Allows fast targeting by India, too.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 08:32 PM (azNOR)

114 One of the sweetest dogs I know is a Pit Bull. But I'd be reluctant to adopt one from a rescue where it's impossible to really know its history, how it was treated/mistreated, raised etc. When one of them goes bad it's very bad.

Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 08:33 PM (bLGCi)

115 nurse,

Amen.
Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:29 PM (3ek7K)

This.
I spent several thousand on 'ol Joe before the end. I wish now I'd spent more. Maybe it would have helped.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 08:34 PM (2WIwB)

116

I was reading more about Candance today.

There is crazy and there is Candace.

She is nuts.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:35 PM (3ek7K)

117 Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released into the US.

Good job, Mr. President! What a pathetic coward Trump has proven to be.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 08:35 PM (l3YAf)

118 Good evening! I love the senior doggies. We need mad scientists working on making our animals live as long as we do. I love my boys, even my big black cat who is yelling at me in my ear for a bite of chicken right now. He is 12. I can’t believe it.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 08:36 PM (OoFl2)

119 est dogs I know is a Pit Bull. But I'd be reluctant to adopt one from a rescue where it's impossible to really know its history, how it was treated/mistreated, raised etc. When one of them goes bad it's very bad.
Posted by: gaf

we've rescued ours from kill shelters, they were born stray, caught stray, never had issues with any. ITs the owner not the dog.

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:36 PM (7neCS)

120 Tucker, Candace, et al. are the internet’s version of Ed Wood. Except that Ed Wood’s stuff was actually entertaining.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:36 PM (77rzZ)

121 Michigan head football coach Sherrone Moore has a beautiful wife three kids and was handed one of the top three collage football coaching jobs in America.
He tossed it all away because he couldn't keep his hands off his hot young blonde assistant.

Why do men do this?

-
Dude, if you don't know, I can't tell you.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 08:37 PM (L/fGl)

122 WAR? China is rapidly militarizing its border with India, completing 36 hardened aircraft shelters...

Well. Maybe.
What episode going on that demonstrates "rapid militarizing """" besides fixing up some shelters? And militarizes not necessarily mean preparing for war.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 08:37 PM (2WIwB)

123 The problem with adopting pit and pit mixes is we don't know their history. The dogs could have been taken away from bad owners.
Posted by: fo

same with any dog

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:37 PM (7neCS)

124 Tucker, Candace, et al. are the internet’s version of Ed Wood. Except that Ed Wood’s stuff was actually entertaining.
Posted by: Bulg

yeah, what the fuck is wrong with these retards, having some questions, not swallowing everything the gov says unthinkingly

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:38 PM (7neCS)

125 Michigan has announced they will hire the next coach Washington state university hires.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 08:39 PM (2WIwB)

126 Michigan head football coach Sherrone Moore has a beautiful wife three kids and was handed one of the top three collage football coaching jobs in America.
He tossed it all away because he couldn't keep his hands off his hot young blonde assistant.

Why do men do this?

two words

hot young blonde

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:39 PM (7neCS)

127 WAR? China is rapidly militarizing its border with India, completing 36 hardened aircraft shelters at Lhunze airbase just 40 km from Arunachal Pradesh, allowing fast deployment of stealth jets and troops.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 08:29 PM (mlg/3)

Hmmm. They should have fun with that. Or China is prepping for their next bioweapon release.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 08:40 PM (zZu0s)

128 114 One of the sweetest dogs I know is a Pit Bull. But I'd be reluctant to adopt one from a rescue where it's impossible to really know its history, how it was treated/mistreated, raised etc. When one of them goes bad it's very bad.
Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 08:33

The reality is almost every last mutt in the shelter is going to have pit in them. If you adopt and don’t know definitively what it is, prepare yourself for the dna test to come back with pit in some form or fashion.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 08:40 PM (OoFl2)

129 123 The problem with adopting pit and pit mixes is we don't know their history. The dogs could have been taken away from bad owners.
Posted by: fo

same with any dog
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:37 PM (7neCS)

If a rescued chihauhua goes rogue, you probably won't die.

Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 08:40 PM (bLGCi)

130 124 Hey “n,” Eff off. Bigly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:41 PM (77rzZ)

131 The reality is almost every last mutt in the shelter is going to have pit in them. If you adopt and don’t know definitively what it is, prepare yourself for the dna test to come back with pit in some form or fashion.
Posted by: Piper

same with labrador, everybody forgets most pits are "pitlab mixes"

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:41 PM (7neCS)

132 As for Carlson and Owens, I assume there's a secret Arrowhead Project somewhere and extradimensional brainworms burrowed into their heads.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:41 PM (gKWVE)

133 Some girl bosses I like.

.@Sec_Noem cooks @RepShriThanedar: "America is very happy that, finally, they have a president in the White House that gets up every day to keep them safe."

"I will consider your asking me to resign as an endorsement of my work."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 08:42 PM (L/fGl)

134 Wasn't it a couple of months ago there was video and news about huge troop movements in "China and then nothing more.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 08:42 PM (sDNVV)

135 ey “n,” Eff off. Bigly.
Posted by: Bulg

youre so smart, you have figured out how to not even think now!

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:42 PM (7neCS)

136 How did pits take over the entire shelter system? That's an amazing feat.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 08:42 PM (uQzkA)

137

Bulg,

n has the right to voice his opinion just like you.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:43 PM (3ek7K)

138 NCKate,, no spay or neutering by the owners.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 08:44 PM (sDNVV)

139 Wasn't it a couple of months ago there was video and news about huge troop movements in "China and then nothing more.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 08:42 PM (sDNVV)

Honestly it seems like we have been hearing the same shit for the past decade or more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)

140 If a rescued chihauhua goes rogue, you probably won't die.
Posted by: gaf

yeah, as I noted the pits in most dog attacks are not purebreed pits, if they have any pit in them, which they often do not, they are mixed with something else.

they were never a thing as dogs go for violence until hoodrats started raising them in the 90s

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:44 PM (7neCS)

141 NCKate,, no spay or neutering by the owners.
Posted by: Ben

hardly anything gets out of shelters unfixed

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:45 PM (7neCS)

142 How did pits take over the entire shelter system? That's an amazing feat.
Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 08:42 PM (uQzkA)

And a lot of people love the breed. White or black. It seems to be more an economic thing. Maybe regional too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

143 I remember being surprised that my cats could eat bits of buffalo wing chicken with hot sauce without a quiver...those that were tempted in the first place.
Posted by: Oldcat

Not all animals can taste the same things. Obligate carnivores like cats don't need receptors for plant-based toxins like capsaicin, so maybe they don't have them?

Or maybe your cats are just hardcore.
Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 07:55 PM (nhCoE)
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I think my cats would still vomit up the chicken...they have sensitive tummies.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 07:57 PM (ESVrU

Cats can be attracted to pepper- I have to watch Kovu, he will lick the pepper shaker. Because they smell so well, pepper is intriguing to them, and they have bitter taste receptors so pepper tingles those. But it can cause upset tummies, so not always the best thing to feed them.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 08:45 PM (OoFl2)

144 How did pits take over the entire shelter system? That's an amazing feat.
Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 08:42 PM (uQzkA)

And a lot of people love the breed. White or black. It seems to be more an economic thing. Maybe regional too.
Posted by: Ae

it is mostly mislabeling

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:46 PM (7neCS)

145 >>The reality is almost every last mutt in the shelter is going to have pit in them.

The real reality is pit bull is not a real breed. It's a name for dogs with a mix of terrier breeds.

Terriers tend to be aggressive. It's their nature. Different breeds do have different characteristics just like horses and other animals. Doesn't mean they can't be raised to be good pets but no, all breeds are not the same.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 08:46 PM (viF8m)

146 The most vicious dog I ever met was a labradoodle- but he had been abused. Fucking psycho.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

147 Just a figment of imagination arising from our paranoid delusions.

Joy Reid claims there is no such thing as liberal corporate media: "It's never existed."

This from the person who was given a Hate TV platform for years by liberal corporate media.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 08:47 PM (L/fGl)

148 Pit bulls are the worst dog species. They should all be put to death and their owners fined.

Violent, worthless creatures unfit to live among humankind.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 08:47 PM (l3YAf)

149 The 100 that never get picked up to be put in a shelter don't get spayed or neutered.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 08:47 PM (sDNVV)

150 135 Way to leave off the first letter of your retort, genius.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:47 PM (77rzZ)

151 >>> The reality is almost every last mutt in the shelter is going to have pit in them. If you adopt and don’t know definitively what it is, prepare yourself for the dna test to come back with pit in some form or fashion.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 08:40 PM (OoFl2)

Yep. We have a tiny dog from the pound, less than 15 lbs. Looks like some terrier, but hard to tell. DNA test showed chihuahua with pit bull.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 08:47 PM (3uBP9)

152 I love my boys, even my big black cat who is yelling at me in my ear for a bite of chicken right now. He is 12. I can’t believe it.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 08:36 PM (OoFl2)

My cats are indoor-outdoor cats, and they made it pretty old. I think the two oldest ladies are 17, and the old toms were 15 - one had a cancer and one got et and he was always a bit sickly.
I think it is a mix of wet and dry food that is best, and control the fleas and parasites.
Cats don't like bitterness, and sometimes tap water can be bitter to them. That can keep them from drinking enough water, so I put a pinch of salt in the water bowl to take away some of the bitterness for them. Cats are prey to kidney problems so the extra water is best for them.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 08:48 PM (rbvCR)

153 other breeds are way more vicious than pits, starting with dalmatians
Posted by: n

Then are there are other breeds that are way less vicious than pits, too? Or are pits nicer than, say, golden retrievers?

Disclaimer: the only dog that ever bit me was a dachshund.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 08:48 PM (nhCoE)

154 135 Way to leave off the first letter of your retort, genius.
Posted by: Bulg

here you go again with the thinking man's arguments.

You're super smart.

Everybody should do what you say

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:48 PM (7neCS)

155 DNA test showed chihuahua with pit bull.
Posted by: banana Dream

I didn't know the Paolo owned a chihuahua.

Posted by: because, damn at December 11, 2025 08:49 PM (nhCoE)

156 Then are there are other breeds that are way less vicious than pits, too? Or are pits nicer than, say, golden retrievers?

Disclaimer: the only dog that ever bit me was a dachshund.
Posted by: mikes

The thing is the data regarding pit attacks is not very accurate because so many dogs that are some variety of mix are labeled pits

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:49 PM (7neCS)

157 Evening, Cafe habitues,

Watching the first broadcast Trek episode, "The Man Trap." It struck me anew how hushed Shatner's delivery is as he narrates the captain's log, as if he is trying not to intrude on the story or trying not to be overheard. It made me try to remember some other TV show or movie where I'd noted the same thing.

It took me half an hour to recall: the narration by Joe, William Holden, for Sunset Boulevard. It's almost as if Joe does not want to be overheard -- or is talking on the phone with someone and is keeping his voice down to as not to disturb someone else. The technique is appropriate in both properties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 08:49 PM (wzUl9)

158 Obama: "Chicago is where Michelle was raised, where I got my start as an organizer, and where we built a family together. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next June, it will be our way to give back to a city that has given us so much."

It cost a billion. How much are you chipping in, Barry? I'm guessing precisely zero. So how are you and big mike "giving back" exactly?

Typical Marxist: mine is mine and yours is mine.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 08:50 PM (1Nv0l)

159 Why are people DNA testing dogs?

Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 08:50 PM (bLGCi)

160 OT: it's a real ego boost to get a rejection email from some company I didn't even have a record of applying to.
It's like precrime in Minority Report.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:50 PM (gKWVE)

161 117 Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released into the US.

Good job, Mr. President! What a pathetic coward Trump has proven to be.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 08:35 PM (l3YAf)

I'm kind of amazed myself. Every time I think it can't keep going it does. If they can keep it going through November, it will be maybe the most amazing piece of manipulation I've ever seen.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 11, 2025 08:50 PM (pIfcn)

162 Why are people DNA testing dogs?
Posted by: gaf

same as why retards use 23 and me

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:51 PM (7neCS)

163 yeah, what the fuck is wrong with these retards, having some questions, not swallowing everything the gov says unthinkingly
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:38 PM (7neCS)

Yep, except Mark Levin, he has the inside track.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 08:51 PM (rbvCR)

164 Why do men do this?

Too much time on their hands RE- unemployed.

Instead of trying to be productive they spend the day resenting the wife that supports them (pays the bills) and chase (stalk) imaginary conquests.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 08:51 PM (F3Dlr)

165 I didn't know the Paolo owned a chihuahua.
Posted by: because, damn
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Well, it's a chihuahua to us, but a great dane to the Paolo. If you know what I mean.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 08:51 PM (1Nv0l)

166 This guy thinks he knows how to survive a dog attack.

https://is.gd/Hd52ZO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 08:51 PM (L/fGl)

167 137 And I have my right to call him (or her) out on it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:51 PM (77rzZ)

168 I've not been bit by a dog ever. I did get nipped by a cat once but not hard (it was setting boundaries I guess).

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE)

169 Goldens are vicious when they run at you and body check you, looking for pets.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

170 Yep, except Mark Levin, he has the inside track.
Posted by: Kin

the guy that wants everybody he disagrees with deplatformed?

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:52 PM (7neCS)

171
What is it with the capitalization of dog-breed names now? Does every damn thing have to be IP now, even dog breeds?

__________

*looks blankly*

I've always capitalized dog breeds. If you own one, you're so proud of it you want to make it all caps.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 08:52 PM (tgvbd)

172
it is mostly mislabeling
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:46

Most shelters have no idea what they are looking at, they guess. If that lab mix you are adopting has eyes in different zip codes, you are looking at a pit mix. Shelters And try really hard to avoid pit labeling, too. It’s DNA testing that is showing the high levels of pits in shelter dogs. Also, shelters are interesting in that they send dogs to other shelters all the time. Some of it is to level vet spend, I will take 1 high needs dog of yours if you take those 5 pit / husky crosses. It’s kind of bizarre - if they get a purebred dog in, a lot of shelters will not allow a direct adoption but will send them to a breed rescue who will charge you 3 times as much to adopt.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 08:52 PM (OoFl2)

173 Maybe we can argue about which regional style of pizza is best for a change of pace.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 08:52 PM (3nLb4)

174 And I have my right to call him (or her) out on it.
Posted by: Bulg

yeah, when you get around to that be sure to give everybody warning,

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:53 PM (7neCS)

175 I have rescued 19 dogs out of the shelter here and the rate of pit /crosses has risen 50 fold.
My personal policy is I will never have one or let one be on my place.
Those of you that have them and love them, Good on ya.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 08:53 PM (sDNVV)

176 the guy that wants everybody he disagrees with deplatformed?
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:52 PM (7neCS)

He has the RIGHT of that. He has written ACTUAL BOOKS. He is a LAWYER. He is smart, not stupid like those other guys.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 08:54 PM (rbvCR)

177 Most shelters have no idea what they are looking at, they guess. If that lab mix you are adopting has eyes in different zip codes, you are looking at a pit mix. Shelters And try really hard to avoid pit labeling, too. It’s DNA testing that is showing the high levels of pits in shelter dogs. Also, shelters are interesting in that they send dogs to other shelters all the time. Some of it is to level vet spend, I will take 1 high needs dog of yours if you take those 5 pit / husky crosses. It’s kind of bizarre - if they get a purebred dog in, a lot of shelters will not allow a direct adoption but will send them to a breed rescue who will charge you 3 times as much to adopt.
Posted by: Piper

I agree with you, where are you, are you working with shelters?

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:54 PM (7neCS)

178 154 No, idiot, just proofread the stuff you post, if you’re so freaking brilliant.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:55 PM (77rzZ)

179 Too much time on their hands RE- unemployed.

Instead of trying to be productive they spend the day resenting the wife that supports them (pays the bills) and chase (stalk) imaginary conquests.
Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 08:51 PM (F3Dlr)

Women are hilarious.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 08:55 PM (l3YAf)

180 Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released into the US.

Good job, Mr. President! What a pathetic coward Trump has proven to be.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 08:35 PM (l3YAf)
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Guy was shot in the head, and kept going.

Maybe sit this one out.

The judges are beclowning themselves, and Trump is humoring them. Maryland Man is being watched more closely by the feds than the Fulda Gap was in 1983.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 08:55 PM (ZOv7s)

181 He has the RIGHT of that. He has written ACTUAL BOOKS. He is a LAWYER. He is smart, not stupid like those other guys.
Posted by: Kin

nobody saying he does not have the right to the opinion, but it is a stark departure from what most would have sed is a bedrock principle of conservatism

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (7neCS)

182 To be clear, I see nothing cowardly, I see calculation. Garcia is a great asset. Tying his indefensible case to the Ds and letting him be the face of the issue is far better than letting Ds paint the issue as kids and abuelas being rounded up.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (pIfcn)

183
Why are people DNA testing dogs?
Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 08:50 PM (bLGCi)

__________

We had a dual-sire litter in 2022. By doing DNA testing we were able to determine all three pups came from only one of the donors. Unfortunately, the wrong one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (tgvbd)

184
The beauty of AOS is people have different opinions.

There is no reason for people to be assholes towards different opinions.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (3ek7K)

185 *looks blankly*

I've always capitalized dog breeds. If you own one, you're so proud of it you want to make it all caps.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 08:52 PM (tgvbd)

I thought they always were capitalized, too. Like a name or country.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (Wmg4n)

186 He tossed it all away because he couldn't keep his hands off his hot young blonde assistant.

Why do men do this?

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Asked and answered.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (1Nv0l)

187 Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 08:51 PM (F3Dlr)

The topic was Sherrone Moore who had a job already when he stepped out.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:57 PM (gKWVE)

188 No, idiot, just proofread the stuff you post, if you’re so freaking brilliant.
Posted by: Bulg

yeah, your'e bring the heat now, ad hominem attacks, and grammar nazi!

Everybody is going to be agreeing with you now!

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:57 PM (7neCS)

189 There is no reason for people to be assholes towards different opinions.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (3ek7K)

The reason is: people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 08:58 PM (zZu0s)

190 Men built civilization. We’ve always built civilization. And we did it to get laid.

Guys wanting to get young tail is literally the only reason you’re not freezing in a cave right now.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 08:58 PM (l3YAf)

191 Saw this at the end of the Homan thread:

289 Teresa is out of surgery. Doctor decided against resection and instead installed a pump to deliver chemo directly to the liver.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 08:38 PM (PQ0Vo)

Posted by: Cate in IN at December 11, 2025 08:58 PM (icWyt)

192 We had a dual-sire litter in 2022. By doing DNA testing we were able to determine all three pups came from only one of the donors. Unfortunately, the wrong one.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (tgvbd)

You do show/competition dogs, right?

I'm talking about Joe Sixpack. Why is he getting Muttly DNA tested?

Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 08:58 PM (bLGCi)

193
Guys wanting to get young tail is literally the only reason you’re not freezing in a cave right now.
Posted by: Disinteres

This is true, men will do anything for sex

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:58 PM (7neCS)

194 🤣🤣🤣

https://tinyurl.com/yc2mx8tv

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 08:59 PM (g47mK)

195 Guys wanting to get young tail is literally the only reason you’re not freezing in a cave right now.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

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Yep. Men will die to get tail. It's evolution. We're literally programmed to nut or die trying.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 09:00 PM (1Nv0l)

196 It's going to get down into the teens here over the weekend, wow. With highs in the 30s.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 09:01 PM (3uBP9)

197 I hate unnecessary capitalization. Unless there’s a legit IP issue involved somehow, I’m not capitalizing the names of any domestic-critter breeds.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:01 PM (77rzZ)

198 DNA testing is required for registration of all AQHA horses.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:01 PM (sDNVV)

199 This is true, men will do anything for sex
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:58 PM (7neCS)
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The Trojan War was literally fought over a single hot young chick. It's what men do.

The interesting thing about Moore is that U-M knew about this for months and did nothing. They were fine with him having a side piece until he lost to the Buckeyes, and that's when they fired him.

But after Signing Day, of course.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:02 PM (ZOv7s)

200 The topic was Sherrone Moore who had a job already when he stepped out.
Posted by: gKWVE

My mistake, I apologize.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 09:02 PM (F3Dlr)

201 I always have a bittersweet smile for any elder dogs I see.

Wish my boy would have gotten old.

Older dogs need love too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 11, 2025 09:02 PM (xcxpd)

202 It's going to get down into the teens here over the weekend, wow. With highs in the 30s.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 09:01 PM (3uBP9)

I saw earlier it was supposed to be a high of 14 and low of 2 on sunday here (KY.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)

203 I guess bartending pays better than I thought.

New York Post@nypost
AOC splurged nearly $50K on pricey hotel stays, dining and renting Puerto Rico concert venue where Bad Bunny performed

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Speaking of entertaining, my daughter had a couple in her cafe /restaurant, which is kind of a gourmet hot dog joint but definitely blue collar, she cut them off and ordered an Uber for them and they left her a $350 tip!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 09:02 PM (L/fGl)

204 Older dogs need love too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew

There has never been a happy ending to any of those stories

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:03 PM (7neCS)

205 For those keeping track at home, Moore is the 7th Michigan coach to be arrested since 2015. Must be something in the drinking water.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:03 PM (ZOv7s)

206 nobody saying he does not have the right to the opinion, but it is a stark departure from what most would have sed is a bedrock principle of conservatism
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (7neCS)

He has written better books the Bill O'Reilly, that is how he can say he is more conservative.

Joking aside, it is a mystery to what conservatives think they are conserving, on the whole. Bill Buckley was conserving his personal country club and his position as Pope, and I had hoped the new generation would attempt to conserve our traditional rights and securities . . . And we got the Patriot Act and open immigration and H1B programs, and vaccine mandates, and fees to register to get a background check to buy guns, and digital safety acts, and schools that trans the kids without parental consent.

So I have to hate Tucker and Candace and believe Levin. Winning. Yay. Five lights.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 09:03 PM (rbvCR)

207

I still love my old dog after almost 50 years.

Yes, old dogs need love too.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 09:03 PM (3ek7K)

208 High of 27 here on Monday. It's below freezing for four days. I saw the lake was starting to freeze on my daily walk today. That should finish it off. Then I can throw stones across it and listen to the "pings".

I am nothing if not a simple man.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 09:04 PM (1Nv0l)

209 The Greeks also were probably interested in the trade flowing by Troy as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 09:04 PM (zZu0s)

210 >> Guy was shot in the head, and kept going.

And he still is letting judges run the country. What a joke.

>> The judges are beclowning themselves, and Trump is humoring them.

What does this even mean?

Dems retake the House in ‘26. Trump will be impeached again, and this time he’ll have earned it. I wonder if it’s starting to dawn on Hegseth and Miller (who I like!) that they’re going to spend time in prison before this is all over with..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 09:04 PM (l3YAf)

211 I agree with you, where are you, are you working with shelters?
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:54 PM (7neCS
I am in Alabama, I don’t work with shelters directly. One of my very good friends is a well known Shiba rescuer- though he will go get any breed that needs to be saved. He is contacted by lots of private rescue organizations who don’t have room or resources and he will drive wherever to get them and match to his list of prospective adopters or bring them to legit breed rescue orgs or fosters who do have room. He also has a Shiba sanctuary for those with bite histories, etc. people really do not understand how difficult Shibas are, they get them because they are cute. Anyway, that is another conversation. The things he goes through with actual shelters is incredibly frustrating. The stories are maddening.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:04 PM (Wmg4n)

212 nobody saying he does not have the right to the opinion, but it is a stark departure from what most would have sed is a bedrock principle of conservatism
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 08:56 PM (7neCS)

He has written better books the Bill O'Reilly, that is how he can say he is more conservative.

Joking aside, it is a mystery to what conservatives think they are conserving, on the whole. Bill Buckley was conserving his personal country club and his position as Pope, and I had hoped the new generation would attempt to conserve our traditional rights and securities . . . And we got the Patriot Act and open immigration and H1B programs, and vaccine mandates, and fees to register to get a background check to buy guns, and digital safety acts, and schools that trans the kids without parental consent.

So I have to hate Tucker and Candace and believe Levin. Winning. Yay. Five lights.
Posted by: Kin

that's fine but how many books do you need to get "America First, everything else second"?

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:05 PM (7neCS)

213
We have six dogs who are 10 years old, which is a good age for a Borzoi. I fear for next year.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 09:05 PM (tgvbd)

214 Garcia is a de facto citizen now. If he couldn’t be deported in 2025, there’s slim chance next year.

And Dems will give him citizenship for his “heroism” the second they hold power again.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 09:06 PM (l3YAf)

215 I am in Alabama, I don’t work with shelters directly. One of my very good friends is a well known Shiba rescuer- though he will go get any breed that needs to be saved. He is contacted by lots of private rescue organizations who don’t have room or resources and he will drive wherever to get them and match to his list of prospective adopters or bring them to legit breed rescue orgs or fosters who do have room. He also has a Shiba sanctuary for those with bite histories, etc. people really do not understand how difficult Shibas are, they get them because they are cute. Anyway, that is another conversation. The things he goes through with actual shelters is incredibly frustrating. The stories are maddening.
Posted by: Piper

very, very, cool

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:06 PM (7neCS)

216 >>> Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:01 PM (sDNVV)

Have you had any trouble from that nervous system damaging horse virus that's traveling around? They are shutting down rodeos and stuff around here in GA. Not to much of a problem now being winter and all. But hopefully doesn't extend too much into next year's completion season. My daughter started barrel racing this year.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 09:06 PM (3uBP9)

217 204 Older dogs need love too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew

There has never been a happy ending to any of those stories
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:03 PM (7neCS)

Sometimes we take the pain to make someone else's life a little better at the end of their days. It's hard and I respect anyone who can do it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 11, 2025 09:06 PM (xcxpd)

218 188 I don’t give a f**k who agrees or disagrees with me, a-hole. Except, I’m pretty sure that I thoroughly dislike you. So, yeah, ad hominem attacks would be appropriate in that case.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:07 PM (77rzZ)

219
I'm talking about Joe Sixpack. Why is he getting Muttly DNA tested?

Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 08:58 PM

Because people love their dogs and want to know which doggies make them up. It also can give insight into personalities, potential health issues, etc.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:07 PM (Wmg4n)

220
289 Teresa is out of surgery. Doctor decided against resection and instead installed a pump to deliver chemo directly to the liver.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 08:38 PM (PQ0Vo)
Posted by: Cate in IN at December 11, 2025 08:58 PM (icWyt)

I was just thinking about her and praying for her recovery. Thanks.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 11, 2025 09:08 PM (WONhk)

221 Sometimes we take the pain to make someone else's life a little better at the end of their days. It's hard and I respect anyone who can do it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew

I am not saying do not do so, quite the opposite, for the very reason you mentioned, was saying there are no happy endings to any story with any of those.

I have been wanting to do so with old dogs, for the reason you said, you'd be surprised how much you can take, but its too hard with the better half.

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:08 PM (7neCS)

222 Goldens are vicious when they run at you and body check you, looking for pets.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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True!

Neighbors have 2 Goldens-- If they're out when I walk to mailbox... They barrel toward me like freight trains and...

BAM!-- "Look, I brought my toy! Let's play!"

WHUMP-- "I love you! Oh, you're still standing-- I'm gonna lean on you until I knock you over *that way*."

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 09:08 PM (rdVOm)

223 218 188 I don’t give a f**k who agrees or disagrees with me, a-hole. Except, I’m pretty sure that I thoroughly dislike you. So, yeah, ad hominem attacks would be appropriate in that case.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09

Bulg, stop. Just ignore. This isn’t worth it. Please.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:08 PM (Wmg4n)

224 Stop fighting, kids.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 09:09 PM (1Nv0l)

225 This might be a good thread to remind people that Shep's Place exists specifically to rescue senior dogs and will accept donations in memory of our late friend Jewells.

https://www.shepsplace.org/donate/

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 09:09 PM (3nLb4)

226 banana Dream, the biggest outbreaks have been in the Houston and Waco area. There are no cases in my county.

Best of luck to your daughter

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:09 PM (sDNVV)

227 186 He tossed it all away because he couldn't keep his hands off his hot young blonde assistant.

Why do men do this?
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Asked and answered.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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But why did she tell the administration?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 09:09 PM (xgeFZ)

228
I'm talking about Joe Sixpack. Why is he getting Muttly DNA tested?

Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025

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Linda has suggested doing that for my mixed-breed black cat Stirling. I say, "What's the point? He doesn't care."

As for Dagny, I know her history and lineage: Siberian on both sides, back multiple generations.

Like Coof tests, not much reason to get involved in such things. "If you don't have symptoms of a cold or flu? No need for a test. You have symptoms? Treat them, take medicine, rest, eat. Get better. No need for a test. If you don't get better, go to the hospital. They'll do any testing. No need for a test. Done."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:10 PM (wzUl9)

229 But why did she tell the administration?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 09:09 PM (xgeFZ)

You know why.

OF will net her millions.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 09:10 PM (17l0u)

230 The Boston Globe@BostonGlobe
Progressive activists plan to show solidarity with Boston’s immigrant communities next week, dumping ice into the harbor as part of what they’re calling an “ICE Tea Party.”

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ICE, baby, ICE!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 09:10 PM (L/fGl)

231 I don’t give a f**k who agrees or disagrees with me, a-hole. Except, I’m pretty sure that I thoroughly dislike you. So, yeah, ad hominem attacks would be appropriate in that case.
Posted by: Bulg

you have some other kind of attack? something involving logic, facts, reason?

besides which I've met way more morons than you, been here longer, even hosted the vegas mome. my hq cred is everybit as good

you've got nothing

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:11 PM (7neCS)

232 I know all the dogs on my street. I like all the dogs on my street. I don't like many people who live on my street however.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 09:11 PM (uQzkA)

233 But why did she tell the administration?

Posted by: Braen

did he meet her younger hotter sister or her older hotter mother?

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:12 PM (7neCS)

234 223 Piper, In deference to you, I will stop.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:12 PM (77rzZ)

235 218 188 I don’t give a f**k who agrees or disagrees with me, a-hole. Except, I’m pretty sure that I thoroughly dislike you. So, yeah, ad hominem attacks would be appropriate in that case.
Posted by: Bulg
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In your language: You are showing your ass arguing with a troll.

In other words you are being taken.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 09:12 PM (xgeFZ)

236 don't you know who I am ?

Posted by: alpine_beer at December 11, 2025 09:12 PM (van9r)

237 But why did she tell the administration?

Posted by: Braenyar

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Dunno. Maybe he had promised her he would leave his family and reneged. Hell hath no fury and all that. I don't know the story -- only the snippets I have seen people mention.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 09:12 PM (1Nv0l)

238 Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:41 PM (77rzZ)

Take it down a notch, or take a long break.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 09:13 PM (n9ltV)

239 I know all the dogs on my street. I like all the dogs on my street. I don't like many people who live on my street however.
Posted by: NCK

dogs are better than humans , generally

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:13 PM (7neCS)

240

People here have different opinions.

Do we think we can convince them to think like we do?

No, so let it go.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 09:13 PM (3ek7K)

241 'Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig LIKES it.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (zZu0s)

242 230 The Boston Globe@BostonGlobe
Progressive activists plan to show solidarity with Boston’s immigrant communities next week, dumping ice into the harbor as part of what they’re calling an “ICE Tea Party.”

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ICE, baby, ICE!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Dumping ice into icy cold Boston Harbor. Yea, that will show them.

Retards.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (C26rB)

243 What does this even mean?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 09:04 PM (l3YAf)
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Are you retarded? Not a personal attack, but you do understand the concept of letting someone make a total ass of themselves and just feeding them so that they do it again and again.

That is what Trump is doing. He will not defy a court order. He scrupulously follows them, no matter how unlawful or asinine, and he leaves it to the other judges to untangle this bullshit the the left has spun for itself.

Trump's brain trust knows that this is twisting Roberts' guts because it is destroying the legitimacy of the courts. There is no precedent, no reason behind these rulings, just naked assertions of power, and as much as these judges are slapped down, they do it again. And so Trump lets the guy go, and then will arrest him because HE'S HERE ILLEGALLY, and they can't get past that. They just keep saying "MOAR PROCESS," so he gives it to them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (ZOv7s)

244 OT: it's a real ego boost to get a rejection email from some company I didn't even have a record of applying to.
It's like precrime in Minority Report.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:50 PM (gKWVE)

Or phishing.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (2WIwB)

245 218 188 I don’t give a f**k who agrees or disagrees with me, a-hole. Except, I’m pretty sure that I thoroughly dislike you. So, yeah, ad hominem attacks would be appropriate in that case.
Posted by: Bulg

You are responding to an anonymous person that has no better place to be than here, respond accordingly.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (F3Dlr)

246 168 I've not been bit by a dog ever. I did get nipped by a cat once but not hard (it was setting boundaries I guess).
Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE)

I still have a scar in the middle of my forehead from a Great Dane bite at age 7. He did NOT appreciate my smooches.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (Wmg4n)

247 Someone smart once said that arguing with a fool is like wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (1Nv0l)

248 >>>226 banana Dream, the biggest outbreaks have been in the Houston and Waco area. There are no cases in my county.
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I'm breaking out I tell ya, I'm gettin outa here you dirty coppers... - rakes tin cup across bars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 09:15 PM (xgeFZ)

249 Older dogs need love too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew

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At the SpayMart location yesterday, they had a sign up advertising their "Match a Senior Cat to a Senior" program. You have to be 68 or older, and the cat will be 7 or more. They match you up, give you 14 days of food and supplies, and provide some initial vet care as well as giving the animal vaccinations in advance. And they will take the cat back if it proves you can't care for him.

Since a 7-year-old cat is only about 35-40 in human terms, it's a bit of a mismatch in the name, but the idea is that an older cat will be more settled and easier for an older human to handle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:15 PM (wzUl9)

250 You are responding to an anonymous person that has no better place to be than here, respond accordingly.
Posted by: old ch

I thought we were friends?

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:15 PM (7neCS)

251 that's fine but how many books do you need to get "America First, everything else second"?
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:05 PM (7neCS)

Is that what he is writing?

I always hear him periodically yelling "Ma! The meatloaf!" I should pay closer attention when my wife is listening to him.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 09:16 PM (rbvCR)

252
The Big Dummy walked at today's Central Florida KC show. Her Majesty said that under this judge the dog had to be lame to have a chance. But TBD looked good and showed well. He has tomorrow off, then the AKC National Championship show Saturday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 09:16 PM (tgvbd)

253 238 CBD, I have disengaged. Sorry for the turmoil.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:16 PM (77rzZ)

254 Sometimes Bulg gets in an ornery mood and picks fights.

This is one of them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:16 PM (ZOv7s)

255 Listen, all I’m saying is nobody was ever killed by a dachshund.

Probably.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 09:17 PM (XV/Pl)

256 😂😂😂

https://tinyurl.com/3v7vtbvs

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 09:17 PM (g47mK)

257 Is that what he is writing?

I always hear him periodically yelling "Ma! The meatloaf!" I should pay closer attention when my wife is listening to him.
Posted by: Kin

I have not read his books but I have heard some of his commentary, if he wants to deplatform or cancel somebody , American, for criticizing another country, I would say that's not especially conservative.

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:17 PM (7neCS)

258 Dachshunds are tripping hazards.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 09:18 PM (1Nv0l)

259 *pops popcorn*

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 09:18 PM (8gXYW)

260 daschunds would kill you if they had the chance

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:19 PM (7neCS)

261 Thank you, Bulg.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:19 PM (Wmg4n)

262 "Cuteness Overload Cafe" degenerates into bar fight.

Pure Horde.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:19 PM (ZOv7s)

263 >Dumping ice into icy cold Boston Harbor. Yea, that will show them.

Retards.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (C26rB)

Will they dress up as Injuns too? Because that would be hilarious.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 09:20 PM (GTqXr)

264 Dachshunds are proof G-d has a sense of humor and wants us to be happy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 09:20 PM (XV/Pl)

265 trolls, TROLLS, TROLLS!!

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 09:20 PM (g47mK)

266 He has tomorrow off, then the AKC National Championship show Saturday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025

We all need t-shirts that say “Team The Big Dummy”

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:20 PM (Wmg4n)

267 255 Listen, all I’m saying is nobody was ever killed by a dachshund.

Probably.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

No one ever expects to get shived by a dachshund, until it's too late. Don't trust those weirdly shaped assassins!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 09:20 PM (C26rB)

268 Yup the Theater Kids are at it in Boston Harbor

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:21 PM (D+mpw)

269 I have not read his books but I have heard some of his commentary, if he wants to deplatform or cancel somebody , American, for criticizing another country, I would say that's not especially conservative.
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:17 PM (7neCS)

Yep, five lights. There are five lights.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 09:21 PM (rbvCR)

270
I know I talk about The Big Dummy too much, like I talked too much about Delilah. If you want me too, I'll shut up. But our pride is not a disparagement of other dogs. From the top-winning special to the muttiest mutt, God love them all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 09:21 PM (tgvbd)

271 Capitalizing animal breeds?

With cats, there are Siamese, Maine Coon, Somali, Siberian, Norwegian Forest Cat, Persian . . . yes, I guess so.

With dogs, Ive usually seen "German shepherd" rather than "German Shepherd," and "collie," lower case, including "border collie." But there's Labrador, Newfoundland, Corgi, Schipperke, and lots more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:21 PM (wzUl9)

272 Dachshunds are proof G-d has a sense of humor and wants us to be happy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 09:20 PM (XV/Pl)
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I'm pretty sure they are the result of human breeding to dig out various varmints.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:21 PM (ZOv7s)

273 >>DNA testing is required for registration of all AQHA horses.

Most of my mom's horses where thoroughbreds but there were a couple quarter horses. Definitely a difference in the breeds.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 09:21 PM (viF8m)

274 I have not read his books but I have heard some of his commentary, if he wants to deplatform or cancel somebody , American, for criticizing another country, I would say that's not especially conservative.
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:17 PM (7neCS)

Yep, five lights. There are five lights.
Posted by: Kin

youre saying he did not say that?

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:22 PM (7neCS)

275 Wait!! I need a TBD update. Did he properly groomed?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:22 PM (sDNVV)

276 Dachshunds are proof G-d has a sense of humor and wants us to be happy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

My mini is a happy guy. Likes nothing more than a big smooch and a treat.

Posted by: Tuna at December 11, 2025 09:22 PM (lJ0H4)

277 Yep, five lights. There are five lights.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 09:21 PM (rbvCR)
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Missing the reference here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:22 PM (ZOv7s)

278 Best name I ever heard for a weiner dog, Oscar.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 09:23 PM (Q+gd/)

279

Hadrian,

I never tire about hearing about your dogs.

I love reading about them. Please don't stop telling us about them.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 09:23 PM (3ek7K)

280
I wish I could bang ALL your heads together.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:23 PM (K+a/1)

281 @272

>> I'm pretty sure they are the result of human breeding to dig out various varmints.

Did G-d not create the double helix? The chromosome? Platypuses?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 09:24 PM (XV/Pl)

282 Missing the reference here.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H

star trek next gen version of 1984 2=2=5

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:24 PM (7neCS)

283 2+2=5

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:24 PM (7neCS)

284 You are responding to an anonymous person that has no better place to be than here, respond accordingly.
Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (F3Dlr)

Hey!

That's mean!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)

285 People are about to start throwing dachshunds at each other

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:25 PM (D+mpw)

286 I like watching Westminster dog show and the Kentucky Derby. I used to go the races way back. It was great.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 09:25 PM (g47mK)

287 270
I know I talk about The Big Dummy too much, like I talked too much about Delilah. If you want me too, I'll shut up. But our pride is not a disparagement of other dogs. From the top-winning special to the muttiest mutt, God love them all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 09:21 PM (tgvbd)

No! I love your stories and I love how you are what breeders are supposed to be- protecting and perfecting lineages, the antithesis of a puppy mill (spit).

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:25 PM (p4NUW)

288 Sorry, All. I grew up in an argumentative family of six kids.

But, my family became a mess after our parents died, so it’s not really a great paradigm for social interaction.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:25 PM (77rzZ)

289 >278 Best name I ever heard for a weiner dog, Oscar.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 09:23 PM (Q+gd/)

We adopted a rescue Chiweenie pup a few weeks ago. She is the sweetest thing and smart as a whip.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 09:26 PM (GTqXr)

290 Someone smart once said that arguing with a fool is like wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 09:14 PM (1Nv0l)

Yeah. I did. At 241.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 09:26 PM (zZu0s)

291 Jeez-- a fight, and I haven't even unlocked the booze yet...

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 09:26 PM (rdVOm)

292 Missing the reference here.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:22 PM (ZOv7s)

He's doing Picard 1 better.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 09:27 PM (zZu0s)

293 star trek next gen version of 1984 2=2=5
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:24 PM (7neCS)
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Ah. I hated that show. Tried to watch it but could not get into it at all.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:27 PM (ZOv7s)

294 Best name I ever heard for a weiner dog, Oscar.

Roughly half of them are named Frank and the owners of all of those think that they were the first one to do it.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 09:27 PM (3nLb4)

295 People are about to start throwing dachshunds at each other
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:25 PM (D+mpw)
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Bram Stoker wrote a particularly disturbing short story about two dudes who do something similar to that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 09:27 PM (ESVrU)

296 262 "Cuteness Overload Cafe" degenerates into bar fight.

Pure Horde.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Good thing that chain-link fence is up.
Here's a towel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 09:27 PM (xgeFZ)

297 @285

>> People are about to start throwing dachshunds at each other

I have a fully semi automatic assault dachshund with a bump grip and the black thing that goes up and I know how to use it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 09:27 PM (XV/Pl)

298 People are about to start throwing dachshunds at each other
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:25 PM (D+mpw)
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With cute little German spiked helmets?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (ZOv7s)

299 Heavy Meta, Weasel will be jealous.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (sDNVV)

300 Ah. I hated that show. Tried to watch it but could not get into it at all.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H

it was ok, better than everything that came aftet it anyway

it is hard to not hate everything patrick stewart does or did now

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (7neCS)

301 288 Sorry, All. I grew up in an argumentative family of six kids.

But, my family became a mess after our parents died, so it’s not really a great paradigm for social interaction.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:25 PM

My advice to you, friend- if nothing good will come of it, don’t say it.

I expect you to return the favor when I get annoyed and snippy. Please and thank you.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (p4NUW)

302 If I had a dachshund, I'd name it Beanie.

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (rdVOm)

303 I enjoy hearing about your dogs, Hadrian. Please continue.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (Tjd07)

304 I thought we were friends?
Posted by: n

y5 you know i love you best of all, but sometimes, people need a reminder that being aos top commenter is ...

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (F3Dlr)

305 Best name I ever heard for a weiner dog, Oscar.

Roughly half of them are named Frank and the owners of all of those think that they were the first one to do it.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025

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Like naming an all-black cat Midnight, Satan, Shadow, or Inky.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (wzUl9)

306 295 People are about to start throwing dachshunds at each other
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:25 PM (D+mpw)
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Bram Stoker wrote a particularly disturbing short story about two dudes who do something similar to that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 09:27 PM (ESVrU)

The movie Heat had a scene similar to what Smell suggested.

Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (bLGCi)

307 youre saying he did not say that?
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:22 PM (7neCS)

No, I am agreeing with you, and making an oblique commentary on the the use of coordinated messaging, championing of viewpoint by "celebrities and thought leaders" and dogpiling and cancellation to enforce compliance to the current message.
The fact that Levin is a minority position, no matter how you measure it, has no bearing on the fact that he is attempting to bulldoze any countering opinion in his attempt to make it a majority opinion.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 09:29 PM (rbvCR)

308 Good thing that chain-link fence is up.
Here's a towel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 09:27 PM (xgeFZ)
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Chicken wire. We need to play "Rawhide" to calm everyone the hell down.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:29 PM (ZOv7s)

309 With dinosaurs, and, I assume, with the scientific naming of other animals, the genus is capitalized but not the species. So, for example, it's Tyrannosaurus rex. I don't know how they deal with breeds. Maybe it'sTyrannosaurus rex Poodle. Or poodle.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 09:29 PM (L/fGl)

310 >>>Hey!

That's mean!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
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Gotta watch out when old chick's get up out of their rocker's. They start slinging and it might not be hash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 09:29 PM (xgeFZ)

311 y5 you know i love you best of all, but sometimes, people need a reminder that being aos top commenter is ...
Posted by: old chick

embarrassing?

I have not been a top commenter for years now

smiley face

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:30 PM (7neCS)

312 I wish I could bang ALL your heads together.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Since it's the cuteness overload cafe, you asked for it!

https://youtu.be/E8pcFhPZQYg

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 09:30 PM (nhCoE)

313 Hadrian,
Hell yes keep talking about your dogs. I get a kick out of them even on a dismal day.

So keep on telling us about the shows and dogs. You damn sure have a right to be proud of them and your missus.

Posted by: whig's phone at December 11, 2025 09:30 PM (WDjG6)

314

Kyle Rittenhouse
@rittenhouse2a
I'm back on social media, I'm back in the fight, and i'm here to stay.

For a quick update, 6 months ago I made the best decision of my life and married my best friend.
@BellRittenhouse
, I couldn’t be happier. I love you beautiful.

More big announcements coming soon...

https://t.ly/RBpRi

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 09:30 PM (pkeXY)

315 Like naming an all-black cat Midnight, Satan, Shadow, or Inky.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (wzUl9)
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My daughter named hers "Marcelline."

We hear about her all the time, usually in sentences beginning "Marcelline is a menace..."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:30 PM (ZOv7s)

316 No, I am agreeing with you, and making an oblique commentary on the the use of coordinated messaging, championing of viewpoint by "celebrities and thought leaders" and dogpiling and cancellation to enforce compliance to the current message.
The fact that Levin is a minority position, no matter how you measure it, has no bearing on the fact that he is attempting to bulldoze any countering opinion in his attempt to make it a majority opinion.
Posted by: Kin

ooooooooooooooooooooooh.

got it.

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 09:31 PM (7neCS)

317 Most of my mom's horses where thoroughbreds but there were a couple quarter horses. Definitely a difference in the breeds.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 09:21 PM (viF8m)

Thoroughbreds are freakin’ nuts. I hated dealing with them.

Quarter horses were pretty chill.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 09:31 PM (l3YAf)

318 >299 Heavy Meta, Weasel will be jealous.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:28 PM (sDNVV)

We lost our beloved 15 yo Black Lab in July. House was too quiet and Mrs. Meta was feeling very sad. We've always had rescue pups and when we saw her at a local shelter we could not resist. She was about 8lbs when we got her and now she is almost 17lbs of chaos and cuteness.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 09:31 PM (GTqXr)

319 Best name I ever heard for a weiner dog, Oscar.

Roughly half of them are named Frank and the owners of all of those think that they were the first one to do it.
Posted by: Oddbob

Like naming an all-black cat Midnight, Satan, Shadow, or Inky.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I would totally name a solid-colored dog "Spot."

Posted by: mikeski is like that at December 11, 2025 09:32 PM (nhCoE)

320 I just saw the following this afternoon:
https://is.gd/k2TDJe

That's about an exoplanet, TOI-270 d. It's a planet about 70-ish ly away orbiting a red dwarf. It's looking like this is what was recently dubbed a "hycean" (hydrogen + ocean) planet. Heavy H2 atmosphere, but with a liquid water ocean underneath.

These could be good candidates for life.

I'm thinking I may live to see something very interesting discovered. I think it's just a matter of time, really.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 09:32 PM (w6EFb)

321 I should clarify that I am a Person of Cat.

Not that I'm big on pets, but if I must have one, a cat is the least objectionable. My daughter's cat, Mittens, is snoozing on my feet. This is agreeable.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:33 PM (ZOv7s)

322 With dinosaurs, and, I assume, with the scientific naming of other animals, the genus is capitalized but not the species. So, for example, it's Tyrannosaurus rex. I don't know how they deal with breeds. Maybe it'sTyrannosaurus rex Poodle. Or poodle.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025

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A subspecies name is also not capitalized, e.g., Homo sapiens sapiens. Are breeds listed as part of a species name? Aren't breeds considered to be the same species, as collies and dachshunds are both Canis familiaris? All the breeds of humans are considered to be one species.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:34 PM (wzUl9)

323
What's this?

Some "cardinal" in the Catlick church has been discovered as author to smut books.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:35 PM (K+a/1)

324 If I had a pet Tyrannosaurus, I would name it Rex.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 09:36 PM (Q+gd/)

325 Nuzzle Me Nuzzi
Posted by: Miklos did not order one either at December 11, 2025 09:30 PM (N7hqt)
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It would be funny if Long Live Death outsold her.

I would gloat.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:36 PM (ZOv7s)

326 If I had a pet Tyrannosaurus, I would name it Rex.
Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025

***
LeRoi -- pronounced "Leroy"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:37 PM (wzUl9)

327 >>Thoroughbreds are freakin’ nuts. I hated dealing with them.

Definitely had to keep your head on a swivel. But that's what made them good at their sport.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 09:37 PM (viF8m)

328 HAHA!! (Nelson Muntz laugh)

LV beats the Philthy Flyers in OT!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 09:37 PM (C26rB)

329 Wow. Even on an evening without the mephitic influence of Big Penguin, discord raises its ugly bouquet. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 09:37 PM (0sNs1)

330 Some "cardinal" in the Catlick church has been discovered as author to smut books.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:35 PM (K+a/1)
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Fernandez? That's been out there for a while. One of Francis' picks.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:38 PM (ZOv7s)

331 Damn! Digging around in my radio junk, found a brand new Seagate 1TB hard drive, still in an unopened anti-static bag.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 09:38 PM (npFr7)

332
Fernandez? That's been out there for a while. One of Francis' picks.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I shoulda known it was old.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:40 PM (K+a/1)

333 301 Piper, bless you, Dear Lady.

*plants loving but platonic kiss on Piper’s cheek*

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:40 PM (77rzZ)

334
I already forgot the new fake pope's name. He's that irrelevant.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:40 PM (K+a/1)

335 "In your language: You are showing your ass arguing with a troll."

I've never seen Yankee Fifth fire the first shot.

I have been around here long enough for Where's the Rum to label me a troll two nights in row back in her booze drinking days.

So just stop with the name calling. It becomes nobody.

Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber at December 11, 2025 09:41 PM (pcnhy)

336 @321

>>These could be good candidates for life.

You need more than the raw materials and right conditions.

And unless they’ve developed the capacity to propagate signals into space there’s no real way of knowing.

Conversely, we have been propagating radio signals for 125 years so any intelligent life form within 125ly knows we’re here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 09:41 PM (XV/Pl)

337 I already forgot the new fake pope's name. He's that irrelevant.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:40 PM (K+a/1)
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Pray tell who is the real pope?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:41 PM (ZOv7s)

338
Tonight was the "Congressional Ball."

I wonder if traitor greene attended.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:42 PM (K+a/1)

339 I wish I could bang ALL your heads together.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:23 PM

To a Queensrÿche soundtrack, of course.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 09:42 PM (0sNs1)

340 my best friend.
@BellRittenhouse
, I couldn’t be happier. I love you beautiful.

Instead of announcing his love on the internet maybe he could quietly be a man of his convections and just, i don't know, be happy with .his good forturn.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (F3Dlr)

341 Father Andrew Greeley's fiction books were on the softcore edge too. Ascent into Hell was the one I read. As a teenager.

Posted by: gKWVE was reading a lot of smut as a teenager at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (gKWVE)

342
Benedict was the last Pope. There is no pope.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (K+a/1)

343 If Peters can be sprung from Pen-State by the Federal Executive, then Chauvin can be sprung too.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 08:02 PM (gKWVE)

And should be. He may be some kind of asshole, but he did not murder George Floyd.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (npFr7)

344 Heavy Meta, bless you both. My best rescue story is I stopped by one day to just look and this three time returnee looked at me and said " I knew you would come for me"

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (sDNVV)

345 350 Heavy Meta, bless you both. My best rescue story is I stopped by one day to just look and this three time returnee looked at me and said " I knew you would come for me"
Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (sDNVV)

Some things were just meant to be.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:44 PM (p4NUW)

346 Benedict was the last Pope. There is no pope.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (K+a/1)
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Based on what?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)

347 ...I stopped by one day to just look and this three time returnee looked at me and said " I knew you would come for me"
Posted by: Ben Had
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Best short story EVER!

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 09:46 PM (rdVOm)

348 352 Benedict was the last Pope. There is no pope.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (K+a/1)
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Based on what?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)

The cover of Abbey Road.

New pope's not wearing shoes.

Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 09:47 PM (bLGCi)

349 Best short story EVER

Harrumph!

Posted by: Zombie E. Hemingway at December 11, 2025 09:48 PM (3nLb4)

350
What's this?

Dan Crenshaw stepped on a rake, again?

Crenshaw's lawyer sent a letter to youtuber named Shawn Ryan, demanding Mr Ryan STFU and take down his videos criticizing Crenshaw.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:48 PM (K+a/1)

351 Instead of announcing his love on the internet maybe he could quietly be a man of his convections and just, i don't know, be happy with .his good forturn.
Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (F3Dlr)

He could be going for the 'the best revenge is to live well.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 09:49 PM (zZu0s)

352 Mrs. Wrecks' friend was struck and killed at night as a pedestrian by a car. It was at a fairly busy intersection near our house with a flashing red light and four way stop but poor lighting and no sidewalk. As is standard journalistic practice of today, the story was extremely poorly written and we couldn't tell what was going on.

Mrs. Wrecks had a dream that it was she who was driving the car and became obsessed with that thought. She searched her car and noticed a few tiny dents and a spot of what might have been blood. She was trying to establish an alibi but neither she nor I can remember where she was at the time. I tried my best to talk her down since her guilt is based upon absolutely nothing but had little success. Finally, tonight, six days later, the paper admits the driver stayed at the scene and has been identified. So Mrs. Wrecks is off the hook. Hopefully, life can return to normal or, at least, no more weird than usual.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 09:49 PM (L/fGl)

353 Crenshaw's lawyer should have told him, "as your lawyer, I must advise you you're retarded".

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 09:50 PM (gKWVE)

354 Crenshaw's lawyer sent a letter to youtuber named Shawn Ryan, demanding Mr Ryan STFU and take down his videos criticizing Crenshaw.

Works every time!

Posted by: B. Streisand at December 11, 2025 09:50 PM (3nLb4)

355 Harrumph!
Posted by: Zombie E. Hemingway
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Yeah, well your story was SAD. Ben Had's is HAPPY

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 09:51 PM (rdVOm)

356 Crenshaw's lawyer sent a letter to youtuber named Shawn Ryan, demanding Mr Ryan STFU and take down his videos criticizing Crenshaw.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:48 PM (K+a/1)
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More proof (if any was needed) that men who can face physical danger are not necessarily immune to social pressure or the temptations of greed.

The flip side of "death before dishonor" is that popularity can be more important than scruple.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:51 PM (ZOv7s)

357 youtuber named Shawn Ryan

==

Blackwater Shawn Ryan

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 09:52 PM (g47mK)

358 Dog

Unwanted

Home
Posted by: Miklos wins a bet with Hemingway at December 11, 2025 09:49 PM (N7hqt)

1. You're drunk.

b) You don't speak English.

Posted by: gaf gaf at December 11, 2025 09:52 PM (bLGCi)

359
Crenshaw can't "see" well.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 09:52 PM (3ek7K)

360 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 09:49 PM (L/fGl)

Good Lord.
How can you not remember what you two were doing? Internet browser history alone should let her off the hook. She doesn't have to tell you about the minotaur fiction, she can just say "I was here".

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 09:52 PM (gKWVE)

361
Exactly.

All Crenshaw accomplished was Total Exposure. Shawn Ryan is now making public ALL DM's, and he's now 100% balls-deep into making Crenshaw's life Hell.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:53 PM (K+a/1)

362 Absolutely, Ben Had.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 09:53 PM (zZu0s)

363 My best rescue story is I stopped by one day to just look and this three time returnee looked at me and said " I knew you would come for me"
Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025

***
June of '83: Mrs. W No. 2 and I walked into the SPCA and the lady said, "Have I got a kitten for you." Result: Arizona the fourteen-pound Coon mix, my buddy and roommate for sixteen years.

June of '22: Saw an intrepid-looking black kitten on the 'Net, drove four hours to see him. "He's smart, and and he gets along with all the other cats at the shelter." Result: Stirling the big cat I've often written about here, sharing quarters with me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:53 PM (wzUl9)

364 He could be going for the 'the best revenge is to live well.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 09:49 PM (zZu0s)
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He grew up with social media. He became a public figure without his consent. I don't think he understands the idea of taking the win in private.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:54 PM (ZOv7s)

365
Disclosure: I am not familiar with Shawn Ryan's background. I know nothing about him.

Also, I didn't even know, until now, Crenshaw was a SEAL.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:54 PM (K+a/1)

366 Sorry for being such a pill tonight, All.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:55 PM (77rzZ)

367 Shawn Ryan is now making public ALL DM's,
Posted by: Soothsayer

Oh look, Shawn Ryan has learnt about Disclosure. Or at least seen My Cousin Vinny.
Ryan can just tell Crenshaw that he's legally obliged to do that anyway to a court, so may as well do it now.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 09:55 PM (gKWVE)

368 Mrs. Wrecks had a dream that it was she who was driving the car and became obsessed with that thought.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 09:49 PM (L/fGl).
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This is textbook OCD.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 09:56 PM (ZOv7s)

369 >> Conversely, we have been propagating radio signals for 125 years so any intelligent life form within 125ly knows we’re here.

That's a common misconception. It ignores inverse square behavior and signal to noise and all that, vs omnidirectional vs our signals that are more "beamed" and so forth.

Our general radio/TV and communications stuff would be detectable only about 5 - 20 ly away. The high end would require an Arecibo size disk and the best detection we have now.

Very high power, highly beamed stuff that got blasted off the planet from military radars and stuff would be detectable maybe 50 ly away, but the aliens would have to be right in the angular line of sight.

They've done planetary radar studies, using Arecibo at high power for instance. Very tight beams, high power. Those might get out a few thousand ly, but again, narrow line of sight.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 09:57 PM (w6EFb)

370 Forget the pill

Drink THIS
Posted by: Wise old bartender Miklos
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Maybe not the best advice, you know?

Posted by: pregnant woman at AA meeting at December 11, 2025 09:57 PM (rdVOm)

371 379 LOL.

Miklos, you almost always crack me up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:57 PM (77rzZ)

372 And in May of '11, big black Wolf, recently "liberated" by his uncaring and evicted people, came up to me on the sidewalk outside Linda's place and bumped me with his big head. I petted him, said, 'I *like* this cat," made sure he was free, and brought him home. Result: The incumbent, Chekov, and he made friends in an hour and sat in the window together, watching birds.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:57 PM (wzUl9)

373 All Crenshaw accomplished was Total Exposure.

I guess I'll find out what this is about if Ace decide to make a post about it tomorrow. Otherwise... don't know, don't care.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 09:58 PM (3nLb4)

374 Very high power, highly beamed stuff that got blasted off the planet from military radars and stuff would be detectable maybe 50 ly away, but the aliens would have to be right in the angular line of sight.

"Send more Chuck Berry."

Posted by: Nonresident Aliens at December 11, 2025 10:00 PM (3nLb4)

375 >350 Heavy Meta, bless you both. My best rescue story is I stopped by one day to just look and this three time returnee looked at me and said " I knew you would come for me"

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:43 PM (sDNVV)

Thank you and your rescue story is awesome. There are too many good boys and girls who need a loving home.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 10:00 PM (GTqXr)

376 For some reason I thought Crenshaw was Army.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:00 PM (zZu0s)

377 Blackwater Shawn Ryan
Posted by: runner

he was not blackwater, seal, cia, coke dealer, movie trainer, podcaster

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 10:01 PM (7neCS)

378 Something about defamation.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 10:01 PM (g47mK)

379
339
I already forgot the new fake pope's name. He's that irrelevant.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 09:40 PM (K+a/1)

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Cletus I.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (VWtfl)

380 U nas yest’ NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (77rzZ)

381 ONT is nood

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (wzUl9)

382

nooodie kazzoo

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (K+a/1)

383 /sock. G'night.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (3nLb4)

384
That's something the SETI people don't tell you. They're assuming any aliens are deliberately beaming very high power signals right at us.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (w6EFb)

385 I would totally name a solid-colored dog "Spot."
Posted by: mikeski is like that at December 11, 2025 09:32 PM (nhCoE)

My all-black (almost) cat is named Tigger.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 10:07 PM (npFr7)

386 264 Dachshunds are proof G-d has a sense of humor and wants us to be happy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 09:20 PM (XV/Pl)

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (snore)

Posted by: Basset hounds at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (4786I)

387 Dems retake the House in ‘26. Trump will be impeached again, and this time he’ll have earned it. I wonder if it’s starting to dawn on Hegseth and Miller (who I like!) that they’re going to spend time in prison before this is all over with..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at December 11, 2025 09:04 PM (l3YAf)

Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome - we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until HE ends the game, not us. - Robert Pratt

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (4786I)

CNN: Obama's White House Counsel Routinely Advised and Defended Jeffrey Epstein

Kathy Ruemmler had been a top Obama choice for Attorney General, America's top law enforcement officer, but she withdrew her name when she came under scrutiny.

Gee I wonder why.

When billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein needed legal advice, help responding to negative press, or just moral support, he often turned to an unexpected confidante -- Kathy Ruemmler, an elite attorney who served two US presidents and was once a top candidate for US attorney general.
As thousands of new documents tied to Epstein have been released, many of those closest to him have paid a steep price for their friendship by forfeiting influential jobs and weathering fierce public blowback. Yet Ruemmler, a former White House counsel for Barack Obama, has maintained a prestigious post as chief legal officer for Goldman Sachs.

Friendship? Really?

The bank has continued to stand by her -- even as emails show Epstein calling her "my great defender" and seeking her help pushing back on reports detailing his abuse of underage girls.
A CNN KFile review of Epstein's emails and travel schedules sheds new light on his relationship with the power-broking lawyer and shows that their ties went far beyond professional advice and into the realm of a friendship.
Among the many high-profile and notable names that appear in the Epstein messages, Ruemmler is one of the most frequently referenced, with more than 100 exchanges between her and Epstein over several years. Epstein's schedule reveals that he was set to meet with Ruemmler more than 50 times between July 2014 and May 2019, including for lunches and dinners with celebrities, apartment hunting, and personal beauty appointments.
As early as 2014, the year that Ruemmler left the Obama White House, the pair already appeared close, with Ruemmler telling Epstein in one email, "I'll be here all week -- you may get sick of me."

Note this is after Jeffrey Epstein's conviction for prostitution. Which was understood to actually be about underaged child sex trafficking.

But their "friendship" endured.

In a statement to CNN, Ruemmler said, "In 2014, I barely knew Jeffrey Epstein. My remark was a throwaway line in response to his invitation to attend multiple meetings with business contacts."
Across the many messages, Ruemmler emerges as a confidant and advocate for Epstein, at times helping him manage his public reputation following his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

Epstein's estate is fighting to keep hundreds of additional emails between Ruemmler and Epstein private, arguing that they are protected by attorney-client privilege. The privilege log shows that Ruemmler continued to communicate with Epstein through at least June 2019 and suggests she was more involved with Epstein's legal affairs than previously known.
In a statement to CNN, Ruemmler referred to Epstein as a "business referral source" when she was at the law firm Latham & Watkins and that she knew him in a "professional capacity" when she served as head of the white collar defense group at the firm. But she said she "did not represent him and was not compensated by him."

Perfect! Then the emails are not privileged.

CNN sent a series of questions to Ruemmler and Goldman Sachs prior to publication. Ruemmler provided answers to several of them, but others she declined to directly answer -- including whether she was involved with drafting a public relations statement for Epstein or took part in discussions to help him respond to media inquiries about his sexual abuse.

I assume this is the statement she drafted for her "friend" the pedophile sex trafficker.

In 2019, as major outlets reexamined Epstein's long history of sexually abusing minors, he invoked her advice directly. In a text message from that year, Epstein said Ruemmler helped him craft a public-relations statement in response to a forthcoming Washington Post editorial calling for Congress to investigate him.
At 4 a.m. on March 7, 2019, Epstein texted a draft statement to a contact redacted by House investigators, calling it a "Ruemmler proposal" and writing, "this is what Kathy suggests we tell Waco," correcting the typo seconds later to "Wapo." The statement -- which Epstein said Ruemmler provided -- rejected claims he received a "sweetheart deal" in his 2008 conviction and argued prosecutors had pursued him too aggressively.
"The criticism is wrong and reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of both [the] facts underlying Mr. Epstein's case and how it was prosecuted by both local and federal authorities. Far from a receiving a sweetheart deal, Mr. Epstein was subjected to a lengthy, aggressive, and highly unusual federal investigation for what were, in essence, local offenses of sexual solicitation. He accepted responsibility, served time and prison, and paid significant monetary settlements to the victims involved," said the statement.

While Jeffrey Epstein's other "friends" have paid a price, this Democrat woman -- no privilege here! -- continues working for Goldman Sachs.

But Ruemmler has managed to fly under the radar despite working as the top lawyer for one of the world's largest banks, where she made $22.5 million last year.

Obviously no lawyer is actually worth $22.5 million per year. She's being paid for political influence. She's a fixer. She knows what officials to call when you need a favor or you're in a jam. That's why she was "friends" with Jeffrey Epstein.

And I do not believe that her "friendship" was uncompensated.

I think, based on this revelation, that The Walls Are Really Closing In on Trump now.

Posted by: Ace at 06:45 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (0N4FZ)

2 Speaking of stupid judicial games...

@Breaking911
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2m
BREAKING: Utah judge will allow accused Kirk assassin's trial to be televised

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (mlg/3)

3 "But Ruemmler has managed to fly under the radar despite working as the top lawyer for one of the world's largest banks, where she made $22.5 million last year. "

$22.5 a year plus all sorts of off the books compensation for being a lawyer/fixer? That is a bit excessive IMO.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 06:46 PM (0N4FZ)

4 BREAKING: Utah judge will allow accused Kirk assassin's trial to be televised
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Judge Itoh returns?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 11, 2025 06:47 PM (tcsrY)

5 $22.5 a year plus all sorts of off the books compensation for being a lawyer/fixer? That is a bit excessive IMO.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 06:46 PM

MILLION.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 06:47 PM (0N4FZ)

6 2m
BREAKING: Utah judge will allow accused Kirk assassin's trial to be televised

==

Erika Kirk wanted it to be televised

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 06:47 PM (g47mK)

7 assassin's attorney did not want it to be televised

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 06:48 PM (g47mK)

8 Jeffrey had lots of friends in the Obama and Biden administrations. It's really strange, no?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 06:48 PM (ynpvh)

9 The walls are falling off for Trump now!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 11, 2025 06:49 PM (MGB5H)

10 Jeffrey had lots of friends in the Obama and Biden administrations. It's really strange, no?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

The girls he procured were too old for Gropey Joe tho.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 11, 2025 06:51 PM (MGB5H)

11 But she said she "did not represent him and was not compensated by him."

If she wasn't on retainer then the estate has no basis to claim attorney-client privilege then, right?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 06:51 PM (6ydKt)

12 Kathy Ruemmler had been a top Obama choice for Attorney General, America's top law enforcement officer, but she withdrew her name when she came under scrutiny.

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She could have been DogEater's wing-beard.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:51 PM (25a1J)

13 Nevermind, I see Ace already answered.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 06:52 PM (6ydKt)

14 At what point is the Jeffrey Epstein story going to be over? Because it doesn't go anywhere and it doesn't go away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 06:52 PM (9ipOP)

15 Too bad Jeffy offed himself.

Given the judicial system as it is now in our country he probably would have walked.

Posted by: pawn at December 11, 2025 06:52 PM (EMg+d)

16 "BREAKING: Utah judge will allow accused Kirk assassin's trial to be televised"

I was just watching the hearing on CourtTV. The defence was arguing that the little weirdo faggot should be able to wear civilian clothes so as to not bias the jury.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

17 Too bad Jeffy offed himself.

Given the judicial system as it is now in our country he probably would have walked.

Posted by: pawn at December 11, 2025 06:52 PM

He literally walked the first time. He got to serve his prison sentence at his office.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 06:53 PM (0N4FZ)

18 Epstein's attorney client privilege died when he died.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 11, 2025 06:53 PM (yxhux)

19 You say fixer, I say influence broker. We're both right.

Posted by: huerfano at December 11, 2025 06:54 PM (98kQX)

20 I think, based on this revelation, that The Walls Are Really Closing In on Trump now.

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"Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was once spotted at a dinner party in Prague with Ruemmler! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Coincidence? We don't think so ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:57 PM (25a1J)

21 Is atty client privilege still applicable when the client is dead?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 06:58 PM (C/x7Y)

22 The contours and bookends of Jeffery Epsteins life of being hired by Bill Bars dad to being murdered in a prison run by Bill Bar would make for a great Spotlight type film.

I wonder if that film will ever get made…

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 06:58 PM (XV/Pl)

23 The contours and bookends of Jeffery Epsteins life of being hired by Bill Bars dad to being murdered in a prison run by Bill Bar would make for a great Spotlight type film.

I wonder if that film will ever get made…
Posted by: Thomas Bender

THEY KNEW ROBBIE! THEY KNEW!!!!!!!!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 11, 2025 06:59 PM (MGB5H)

24 You say fixer, I say influence broker. We're both right.

Posted by: huerfano at December 11, 2025 06:54 PM (98kQX)

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Consigliere.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:59 PM (25a1J)

25 ***[her] prestigious post as chief legal officer for Goldman Sachs.
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Is this the same Goldman Sachs that is always talking down Trump's economy?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:59 PM (xgeFZ)

26 How can the Epstein estate claim "privilege". Fucker's dead.
And who is the executor, and who are the benficiaries?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 07:00 PM (npFr7)

27 $22.5 million a year as salary and benefits.

I mean $22.5 million a year as a CONTRACT to a historic legal team already raises an eyebrow. But $22.5 million to a singular person sets off alarm bells and whistles. When "little people" (and not so little people) wonder aloud about the integrity of free enterprise, its cases like this that cause the doubt. Because I guarantee you this bitch isn't worth $22.5 million to her employer as an attorney.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 07:01 PM (TN0g+)

28 2m
BREAKING: Utah judge will allow accused Kirk assassin's trial to be televised
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (mlg/3)

Great! Now do the hanging.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 07:01 PM (npFr7)

29 Consigliere.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:59 PM (25a1J)

assistant head cashier

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 07:01 PM (rbvCR)

30 14 At what point is the Jeffrey Epstein story going to be over? Because it doesn't go anywhere and it doesn't go away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 06:52 PM (9ipOP)

I suppose when all the emails/evidence are rleased.
However long that takes.

And then it will still take a while to die down.

I imagine we'll be seeing conspiracy theory videos & books on Epstein for years to come.

Too many people have gotten emotionally invested in this story for a long time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:02 PM (6ydKt)

31 >>> The contours and bookends of Jeffery Epsteins life of being hired by Bill Bars dad to being murdered in a prison run by Bill Bar would make for a great Spotlight type film.

I wonder if that film will ever get made…
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 06:58 PM (XV/Pl)

Netflix/Warner Brothers, starring Samuel L Jackson as Jeffery Epstein, "I've had it with these legal aged girls on this plane!"

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:03 PM (3uBP9)

32 Did the Indiana Senate pull an own goal? Votes no on redistricting.

WTF. Between this and Garcia being released, I'm back to being in a foul mood.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:03 PM (17l0u)

33 The contours and bookends of Jeffery Epsteins life of being hired by Bill Bars dad to being murdered in a prison run by Bill Bar would make for a great Spotlight type film.

I wonder if that film will ever get made…

Posted by: Thomas Bender

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The soundtrack would need to feature bagpipes and or hurdy-gurdies.

/Might I suggest Bear McCreary?

[One of our favorite modern theme song is the one for the TV Series "Black Sails."]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:04 PM (25a1J)

34 I was just watching the hearing on CourtTV. The defence was arguing that the little weirdo faggot should be able to wear civilian clothes so as to not bias the jury.
Posted by: fd

Or the Furry outfit

I like the Furry outfit

Posted by: What is the Hudge wearing under those robes? at December 11, 2025 07:04 PM (N7hqt)

35 Did the Indiana Senate pull an own goal? Votes no on redistricting.

WTF. Between this and Garcia being released, I'm back to being in a foul mood.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Indiana senate is all old ass GOPe trump haters. The house is very MAGA.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 11, 2025 07:04 PM (MGB5H)

36 damn, pixie devouring lt and gt symbols always catches me. Like Elvis needs boats, but pixie

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:04 PM (3uBP9)

37
But she said she "did not represent him and was not compensated by him."

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Saying that must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 07:04 PM (azNOR)

38 Netflix/Warner Brothers, starring Samuel L Jackson as Jeffery Epstein, "I've had it with these legal aged girls on this plane!"

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:03 PM (3uBP9)

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You left out the three obligatory "mothaf*cker" references in that sentence.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:05 PM (25a1J)

39 Mediate has a good article about the fracture in the party caused by the two koo koo clocks, Owens and Carlson.

Basically rips them for profiting off of Kirk's death.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:06 PM (17l0u)

40 Hmm. Are conservatives capable of a bit of cancel culture? Demanding that any institutional pension they have any ties find another broker unless GS fires this lawyer? Probably not, but we should, if for no other reason that to send the message that we will engage in "tit for tat" since the commies do that crap all of the time.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 11, 2025 07:06 PM (hhkIi)

41 Didn't do it put of a good heart for sure

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 07:06 PM (Ia/+0)

42 are the wheels coming off the ship too?

Posted by: DanMan at December 11, 2025 07:06 PM (8uzBS)

43 22.5 mil a year, huh?

Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

44 Well, oopsie, Kathryn! You may "regret" knowing Epstein, but you did. Apparently quite well.

There is NO history of marriage or children, or if she's a lesbo (Hillary liked her, so possible). One goofy AI source said she was married to Bob Bauer, which is apparently bullsharte.

She's 71yrs old, not hideous looking in the way of Rosa, so you'd THINK there would be a history of something other than her vast legal career (I like to say vast whenever Hag Hil is on my mind).

Did she get her kicks on Route 66? She denies going to Pedo Island, but a flight took her there.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 11, 2025 07:07 PM (WONhk)

45 At what point is the Jeffrey Epstein story going to be over? Because it doesn't go anywhere and it doesn't go away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 06:52 PM (9ipOP)

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After Juan McCain's funeral ends.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:07 PM (25a1J)

46 26 How can the Epstein estate claim "privilege". Fucker's dead.
And who is the executor, and who are the benficiaries?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 07:00 PM (npFr7)

He might have some brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews?
I don't know his bio too well.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:07 PM (6ydKt)

47 Politico:

Debacle of epic proportions’: Nuzzi book flops in first week
The former star magazine writer’s “American Canto” has been panned by critics and seen weak sales.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:07 PM (17l0u)

48 >>I mean $22.5 million a year as a CONTRACT to a historic legal team already raises an eyebrow. But $22.5 million to a singular person sets off alarm bells and whistles. When "little people" (and not so little people) wonder aloud about the integrity of free enterprise, its cases like this that cause the doubt. Because I guarantee you this bitch isn't worth $22.5 million to her employer as an attorney.

What client has the resources to have that juice? What does Latham & Watkins specialize in?

Epstein was a protected government asset.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 07:07 PM (viF8m)

49 BREAKING: Utah judge will allow accused Kirk assassin's trial to be televised

Good.
His self-satisfied smirk is something he can't hide.
I don't wish Erica further pain, but, she will prevail and that murderer will be recognized for the weak, attention seeker he is.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 07:08 PM (F3Dlr)

50
Epstein must have had tons of money when he died.

Did the government confiscate it or did a family member inherit?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 07:08 PM (3ek7K)

51 Can't people just let Jeffrey Epstein die in peace already?

It's Jeffrey Epstein did this or Jeffrey Epstein did that. Everybody knows he was a nasty man. Let the bastard rest in peace.

Posted by: Bill Clinton, Rapist Elected More Than Once at December 11, 2025 07:09 PM (R/m4+)

52 So the trial will be televised. Will there be dancing furries?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 07:09 PM (D+mpw)

53 Epstein story won't die because it's leverage against someone.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:09 PM (17l0u)

54 Debacle of epic proportions’: Nuzzi book flops in first week
The former star magazine writer’s “American Canto” has been panned by critics and seen weak sales.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:07 PM (17l0u)

And THEY just bought it for the centerfold.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 07:09 PM (zZu0s)

55 Indiana's Republican supermajority sticks their collective thumbs in Americas eye by not approving new congressional map giving a major win to the dems.

Festering boils with maggots >> GOP

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:09 PM (abIsI)

56 Indiana senate is all old ass GOPe trump haters. The house is very MAGA.

opposite thing in Texas, house has about 25 skunks that will rotate in to vote with dems to kill any good stuff, senate is solid

Posted by: DanMan at December 11, 2025 07:09 PM (8uzBS)

57 Good.
His self-satisfied smirk is something he can't hide.
I don't wish Erica further pain, but, she will prevail and that murderer will be recognized for the weak, attention seeker he is.
Posted by: old chick at December

Erika requested it be televised.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 11, 2025 07:09 PM (MGB5H)

58 22.5 mil a year, huh?

Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

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She can barely afford one of Hunter Biden's excrement masterpieces on that paltry salary ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:10 PM (25a1J)

59 39 Mediate has a good article about the fracture in the party caused by the two koo koo clocks, Owens and Carlson.

Basically rips them for profiting off of Kirk's death.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:06 PM (17l0u)

I read that one earlier.
It was very fair coming from Mediate.

I'm still amazed at how fast this all happened.
The Israel/Iran war is when things started going sideways with these people, and that was like six months ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:10 PM (6ydKt)

60 39 Mediate has a good article about the fracture in the party caused by the two koo koo clocks, Owens and Carlson.

Basically rips them for profiting off of Kirk's death.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:06 PM (17l0u)

And the Hitler Loving Fuentes was pushed to the front of the universe by bot farms from foreign countries.

I am sure Chyna loves the three of them, as well as the Dims and liberals. Good job! If you can get it. Money, the root and rot of all evil. Congratulations to the trio!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 11, 2025 07:11 PM (WONhk)

61 BREAKING: Utah judge will allow accused Kirk assassin's trial to be televised
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (mlg/3)

Great! Now do the hanging.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Does Utah allow the firing squad? I'll round up the Mausers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 07:11 PM (XeU6L)

62
Does Utah allow the firing squad?

=

Yes

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 07:11 PM (g47mK)

63
Does Utah allow the firing squad? I'll round up the Mausers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

Death by magic underwear.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:11 PM (abIsI)

64 opposite thing in Texas, house has about 25 skunks that will rotate in to vote with dems to kill any good stuff, senate is solid
Posted by: DanMan at December

As far as I know none of the Indiana congressmen took the floor drunk on camera like Phelan. So they have that goin for em. Which is something, I guess.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (MGB5H)

65 >>> You left out the three obligatory "mothaf*cker" references in that sentence.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:05 PM (25a1J)

It was all there but I stupidly wrapped it in lt; gt; symbols and pixie just eats anything you wrap like that. Lesson being, don't be stupid like me.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (3uBP9)

66 Does Utah allow the firing squad? I'll round up the Mausers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 07:11 PM (XeU6L)

I think you have a choice in Utah. Iirc, hanging was one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (zZu0s)

67 Ruemmler is kind of nice looking.
A Goldman Sachs 5.
A Chipotle 7.
A Waffle House 9.

Posted by: Crude male gaze at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (3rtaB)

68 Debacle of epic proportions’: Nuzzi book flops in first week
The former star magazine writer’s “American Canto” has been panned by critics and seen weak sales.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:07 PM (17l0u)

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Ryan Lizza is writing his own tell-all and calling it "American Bamboo."

/There could be a Steven Spielberg movie in there somewhere ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (25a1J)

69 28 2m
BREAKING: Utah judge will allow accused Kirk assassin's trial to be televised
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (mlg/3)

Great! Now do the hanging.

utah does firing squad

Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (sGtp+)

70
Kirk's assassin will get off.

Utah is a strange state.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (3ek7K)

71 I'm shocked by Candace Owens. I truly thought she had the goods to go for in the party for our side. Thought she was incredible.

Now I loathe her.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (17l0u)

72 "Good. His self-satisfied smirk is something he can't hide."

Problem is they have more furry adjacent crazy killers that think "martyrdom" is OK, than we have saints like Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 11, 2025 07:13 PM (vbXSk)

73 are the wheels coming off the ship too?
Posted by: DanMan

Finish your whiskey and prepare to swim, boys

Posted by: Riverboat gambler Miklos at December 11, 2025 07:13 PM (N7hqt)

74 50
Epstein must have had tons of money when he died.

Did the government confiscate it or did a family member inherit?

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 07:08 PM (3ek7K)

The government confiscated his ranch in New Mexico and, I assume, all the rest including Pedo Island.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 11, 2025 07:13 PM (WONhk)

75 Ace is pouncing!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 07:13 PM (+Ir2J)

76 It was all there but I stupidly wrapped it in lt; gt; symbols and pixie just eats anything you wrap like that. Lesson being, don't be stupid like me.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (3uBP9)

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lmao

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:13 PM (25a1J)

77
Purge time in Indiana. List the traitors and start the primary battle now.

Posted by: Auspex at December 11, 2025 07:13 PM (Y8DZL)

78 63
Does Utah allow the firing squad? I'll round up the Mausers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

Death by magic underwear.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:11 PM (abIsI

I chortled.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:13 PM (17l0u)

79

Is that nasty bitch a good feminist?

I bet she is.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 11, 2025 07:13 PM (och2J)

80 Great! Now do the hanging.

utah does firing squad
Posted by: anachronda

Slo-mo video?

Posted by: a Miklos can dream at December 11, 2025 07:14 PM (N7hqt)

81 >>The government confiscated his ranch in New Mexico and, I assume, all the rest including Pedo Island.

Seems fair. They paid for them in the first place.

Well, we did.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 07:14 PM (viF8m)

82 71 I'm shocked by Candace Owens.

Always been a DS operative along with Carlson and Greene. They've been activated.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:14 PM (abIsI)

83 >>Speaking of stupid judicial games...

Stupid?

Trials are meant to be public events.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 07:15 PM (IaZ7c)

84 >>Epstein must have had tons of money when he died.

Did the government confiscate it or did a family member inherit?

I believe there is a Trust that pays out the settlements...so, not all the monies could be confiscated for that to be true.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 07:16 PM (IaZ7c)

85 People were warned about her. She started as the typical BLM racist.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 07:16 PM (g47mK)

86 Trials are meant to be public events.
Posted by: garrett

And hangings

Posted by: tradition minded Miklos at December 11, 2025 07:16 PM (N7hqt)

87 >>>Epstein texted a draft statement to a contact redacted by House investigators, calling it a "Ruemmler proposal" and writing, "this is what Kathy suggests we tell Waco," correcting the typo seconds later to "Wapo."
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If they know he corrected a typo seconds later they know his every keystroke. Right?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:16 PM (xgeFZ)

88 83 >>Speaking of stupid judicial games...

Stupid?

Trials are meant to be public events.
Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 07:15 PM (IaZ7c

Who else is gonna throw the tomatoes but the public?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:17 PM (17l0u)

89 The Gov in Indiana, to his credit, has said he's going to burn the traitors down now, his tweet:

I am very disappointed that a small group of misguided State Senators have partnered with Democrats to reject this opportunity to protect Hoosiers with fair maps and to reject the leadership of President Trump. Ultimately, decisions like this carry political consequences. I will be working with the President to challenge these people who do not represent the best interests of Hoosiers.

x.com/GovBraun/status/
1999234066680512867

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:17 PM (3uBP9)

90 *Finish your whiskey and prepare to swim, boys.*

Fellas it's been good to know ya.

Posted by: The cook of the Edmund Fitzgerald at December 11, 2025 07:17 PM (3rtaB)

91 I think, based on this revelation, that The Walls Are Really Closing In on Trump now.

Well, we'll know for sure if and when the chair is against the wall.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 07:17 PM (0sNs1)

92 More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (abIsI)

93 I'm shocked by Candace Owens. I truly thought she had the goods to go for in the party for our side. Thought she was incredible.

Now I loathe her.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (17l0u)

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Was listening to Dana Loesch this afternoon on the radio (we have on hour of her show here locally), and Loesch said Owens was originally a race-hustling leftist grifter a la Joy Reid who palled around with Kanye West or something.

At some point, she figured she could earn more grift fooling the rubes on the right.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (25a1J)

94 89 The Gov in Indiana, to his credit, has said he's going to burn the traitors down now, his tweet:

I am very disappointed that a small group of misguided State Senators have partnered with Democrats to reject this opportunity to protect Hoosiers with fair maps and to reject the leadership of President Trump. Ultimately, decisions like this carry political consequences. I will be working with the President to challenge these people who do not represent the best interests of Hoosiers.

x.com/GovBraun/status/
1999234066680512867
Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:17 PM (3uBP9

Seems a bit of CYA.

Best time to rid the house of rats is before they shit on your pillow.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (17l0u)

95 I miss the stockades ....

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (g47mK)

96 Depose Dimon.
Get the Whole Story.
Who gave him the Green Light to profit off the exploitation of others?

Pit the Brennan Undead against the ctHARRIS/19 and what normal people become de-targeted as they open fire on each other to save their own sorry asses.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (h7sK3)

97 71 I'm shocked by Candace Owens. I truly thought she had the goods to go for in the party for our side. Thought she was incredible.

Now I loathe her.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:12 PM (17l0u)

Candace discovered PT Barnum, and decided she'd say anything to get more likes & views.

I gave her the benefit of the doubt that she was convinced about the Brigit Macron thing, but she's gone off the deep end since then.

If she keeps this up she'll eventually need an intervention and some 'me time'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (6ydKt)

98 Huh. That would be an interesting trip through the archive. Check to see everyone's opinion of this or that figure as the years went by.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

99 >>Candace discovered PT Barnum

She married into MI6.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 07:19 PM (IaZ7c)

100 At some point, she figured she could earn more grift fooling the rubes on the right.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (25a1J)

Carlson did it with a bow tie.

How conservative!!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:20 PM (17l0u)

101 More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (abIsI)

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Everybody will still get 36 weeks of vacation/year though, amirite?

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:20 PM (25a1J)

102 Best time to rid the house of rats is before they shit on your pillow.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (17l0u)

Is this about me?

Posted by: Amber Heard, Bed Shitter at December 11, 2025 07:20 PM (R/m4+)

103 More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (abIsI)

All you can eat night at the Sizzler buffet?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

104 I'm back to being in a foul mood.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:03 PM

I won't be around to save you on the ONT tonight.

Posted by: Yoko Ono at December 11, 2025 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

105 104 I'm back to being in a foul mood.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:03 PM

I won't be around to save you on the ONT tonight.
Posted by: Yoko Ono at December 11, 2025 07:21 PM (0sNs1

I thought I smelled patchouli and body odor.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:21 PM (17l0u)

106 Erika requested it be televised.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Yes, she did, she is a strong woman that I believe will raise their children with extra love after the senseless loss of their father.
It wasn't her choice in life. Or his.

I'm glad the garbage will be recorded and I hope mocked for his deed till his death. It was a senseless murder.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 07:22 PM (F3Dlr)

107 Remember about ten years ago when the black guy broke into a house in Kentucky and stabbed a 6 year old to death and was found not guilty of murder but only for assault on other family members and sentenced to only 20 years?

That was bad enough but they further spit in the face of every law abiding citizen and released him after only 9 years. He was out for only a short time before being arrested this week for violating parole .
Mean while the Oklahoma pharmacist who shot an armed robber and then shot him again when he still thought he could be a danger is still serving a life sentence. And Chavin has another 15 years to serve before parole consideration and the Somali cop ,Noor who shot the unarmed white lady for no reason is free as a bird after serving only 3 years.

Don't know how long this can go on.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 07:22 PM (KDPiq)

108 >>>$22.5 a year plus all sorts of off the books compensation for being a lawyer/fixer? That is a bit excessive IMO.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
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Lot of loot. What do other lawyers at that job, say, at J.P. Morgan make?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:22 PM (xgeFZ)

109 Debacle of epic proportions’: Nuzzi book flops in first week
The former star magazine writer’s “American Canto” has been panned by critics and seen weak sales.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Hm. I guess the Left doesn't have the money for their usual "New York Times Best-seller" kickback shenanigans.

Or they decided Nuzzi wasn't worth salvaging

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 11, 2025 07:22 PM (a+4eV)

110 Hm. I guess the Left doesn't have the money for their usual "New York Times Best-seller" kickback shenanigans.

Or they decided Nuzzi wasn't worth salvaging
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 11, 2025 07:22 PM (a+4eV)

She doesn't get the payoff, she didn't succeed. Book tours are for closers.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 07:24 PM (rbvCR)

111 More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Her and what army?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 11, 2025 07:24 PM (a+4eV)

112
More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (abIsI)

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What about NATO militaries that only work Monday-Friday 9-5? Overtime pay?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 07:24 PM (azNOR)

113 Trials are meant to be public events.
Posted by: garrett

And hangings
Posted by: tradition minded Miklos
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I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great shouts of joy.

Posted by: Samuel Pepys at December 11, 2025 07:24 PM (XeU6L)

114 I believe Candice filled the void that Alex Jones left being sued into relative oblivion. And for the qanon crap that always glowed. The left has their nutters too, more in fact, but is somehow able to assemble a grand unified theory of Progress! that keeps them all relatively happy in a big effective loony farm coalition.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:24 PM (3uBP9)

115 "More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’ Posted by: Maj. Healey

So they will give up their long vacations and "free" health care, and start to invest in their military to cover what USA provided freely for a few generations?

Seems like a big pill for EU weenies to swallow. Probably just talk, and they will continue their open borders policy, and keep relying on USA to provide their military protection from ? Russia, and China, and Islam.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 11, 2025 07:25 PM (vbXSk)

116 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at December 11, 2025 07:25 PM (3rtaB)

117 Or they decided Nuzzi wasn't worth salvaging
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 11, 2025 07:22 PM

We've been bamboozled?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 07:25 PM (0sNs1)

118 More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’

The German's will have to exchange their broomsticks for real rifles. Best of luck to them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:25 PM (abIsI)

119 101 More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (abIsI)
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If that fool thinks America is going to save Europe's ass he'd better hold his water till a Democrat is elected president.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:26 PM (xgeFZ)

120

There is an interesting article at Salt Lake Tribune under Religion section about the Mormon disposal of old magic underwear.

Shredding and used to fuel concrete facilities.

I'm not making fun of it, it is an interesting idea.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 07:27 PM (3ek7K)

121 I won't be around to save you on the ONT tonight.
Posted by: Yoko Ono

In Emergency-Break Glass!

Posted by: Nina Hagen at December 11, 2025 07:27 PM (oftw2)

122 118 More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’

The German's will have to exchange their broomsticks for real rifles. Best of luck to them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:25 PM (abIsI)

He's talking about the Russians, the new bogeyman the EUies use to justify every crewed up thing they do.

Little does he know he's actually talking about the civil wars in Western Europe once the spark is lit somewhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (6ydKt)

123 >>If that fool thinks America is going to save Europe's ass he'd better hold his water till a Democrat is elected president.

Woah...woah, not so fast.

When a Door is closed, often, a window is opened.

Hear me out...Immigrant Draft. Somali Brigade.

Hm? Hmmm?

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (IaZ7c)

124 The next war will be fought with AI and drones.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (17l0u)

125 (s)crewed ^^^

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:29 PM (6ydKt)

126
I remember that Ruemmler bitch from Obamacare. Can't remember what her role was exactly, but we have her to thank (in part) for it.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 07:29 PM (1N/bM)

127 I watched the entire first OJ trial and the entire Clarence Thomas confirmation 'trial' .

Have to admit it's good TV.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 07:29 PM (KDPiq)

128 Shredding and used to fuel concrete facilities.

I'm not making fun of it, it is an interesting idea.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 07:27 PM (3ek7K)

Ai-ee-ay! Kilns!

Posted by: zombie Fawn Liebowitz at December 11, 2025 07:29 PM (npFr7)

129 Death by magic underwear.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:11 PM (abIsI)

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[With all due respect to our Mormon friends here -- and I have several old high school friends IRL who are LDS):]

Back at the beginning of Trump 1.0, remember when Mittens "Lucky" Pierre Delecto went begging Trump for a job in his ~~Magic Underwear~~ Administration?

Someone took a photo of Mitt walking away from Trump after being rejected and Ace posted it in a thread here; Trump is seen standing about 10 feet behind Mitt grabbing his own crotch.

[My comment then:]

"Caption Contest!

Hey Mitt, I've got your Magic Underwear right here!"

/I denounce myself ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:30 PM (25a1J)

130 There is a line of countries from the Aegean to the Baltic between Russia and Western Europe that will gladly tell them lolgf.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:30 PM (xgeFZ)

131 He's talking about the Russians, the new bogeyman the EUies use to justify every crewed up thing they do.
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I think we could actually do business with the Russians if we simply stopped giving a single, solitary damn about what Europe thought of it. Let Europe do its own thing--if they want to become a Muslim state, so be it--so long as our side and the Russians aren't arming them any further.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 07:30 PM (TN0g+)

132 124 The next war will be fought with AI and drones.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (17l0u)

Already happening in Ukraine.
They use AI for targeting in the drones.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:30 PM (6ydKt)

133 The next war will be fought with AI and drones.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (17l0u)

---------------

And Directed Electromagnet Pulse (EMP) weapons.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:31 PM (25a1J)

134 The next war will be fought with AI and drones.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (17l0u)

Already happening in Ukraine.
They use AI for targeting in the drones.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:30 PM (6ydKt)

Not a single bag of Doritos will survive.

Posted by: HE'S GOT CHIPS! BLAM BLAM BLAM! at December 11, 2025 07:32 PM (TbWk/)

135 The next war will be fought with AI and drones.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (17l0u)

Already happening in Ukraine.
They use AI for targeting in the drones.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:30 PM (6ydKt)
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AI is an energy sink. First day, knock out power plants.

Second day, no AI.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 07:32 PM (ZOv7s)

136
123

When a Door is closed, often, a window is opened.

Hear me out...Immigrant Draft. Somali Brigade.

Hm? Hmmm?
Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM

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Such a force, if deployed, would shoot every white person they see, and then hook up with their brothers in Islam.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 07:32 PM (azNOR)

137 He's talking about the Russians, the new bogeyman the EUies use to justify every crewed up thing they do.

Little does he know he's actually talking about the civil wars in Western Europe once the spark is lit somewhere.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (6ydKt)

You can bet just about every mosque has an arms room somewhere on the premises.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 07:32 PM (2WIwB)

138 on the topic of bitches:

@liz_churchill10 . 23h

Bill Gates just announced he’s spending $1.2B on ‘Polio Vaccines’.

HHS RFK Jr. on the Bill Gates ‘Polio Vaccines’…

“The only Polio you see in Africa…is the Bill Gates Polio…from his ‘vaccines’…”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:33 PM (xgeFZ)

139 (s)crewed ^^^
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:29 PM

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Ontos loader at December 11, 2025 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

140
Diogenes,

I agree with you.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)

141 Woah...woah, not so fast.

When a Door is closed, often, a window is opened.

Hear me out...Immigrant Draft. Somali Brigade.

Hm? Hmmm?

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (IaZ7c)

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OUT: General Omar Bradley.
IN: General Omar-Nur.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 07:33 PM (25a1J)

142 More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 07:18 PM (abIsI)

You don't have an army, Asshole.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:34 PM (8avO+)

143 AI is an energy sink. First day, knock out power plants.

Second day, no AI.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 07:32 PM (ZOv7s)

I'm pretty sure Skynet will turn to wind and solar, or just use humans as batteries.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:35 PM (6ydKt)

144 There is a line of countries from the Aegean to the Baltic between Russia and Western Europe that will gladly tell them lolgf.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:30 PM (xgeFZ)
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Prior to the Cold War, relations between the US and Russia were quite cordial. Obviously the Alaska purchase helped, but at a low point in the Civil War Russia sent a fleet to visit New York. It was a move to piss on the British, but it was also one of the few European powers to not have a serious hard-on for Confederate slave cotton.

I hate the way everything Russian has be vilified. We weren't this bad to the Germans.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 07:35 PM (ZOv7s)

145 I'm pretty sure Skynet will turn to wind and solar, or just use humans as batteries.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:35 PM (6ydKt)
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LOL. Yeah, those aren't vulnerable to combat damage. Not at all.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 07:35 PM (ZOv7s)

146 NPDBookScan ran the numbers, “American Canto” sold 1165 units in a week.
Olivia Nuzzi should have written it in the form of spicy roman-a-clef with a minotaur in it, that might at least have sold.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 07:36 PM (gKWVE)

147 More exciting news: NATO Chief Tells People to Get Ready ‘For the Scale of War Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Endured.’

War? With whom? With each other? Russia? Turkey? Canada? Aliens? I mean, who are they going to have a war with?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 07:36 PM (C26rB)

148 The next war will be fought with AI and drones.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 11, 2025 07:28 PM (17l0u)

And the side that decides what victory looks like before a bullet is fired will be the side to bet on. No more lurching and staggering about the battlefield while listening to the bleating UN talk about cease fires and emergency aid "for the children."

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 07:36 PM (2WIwB)

149 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

NOODIE NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 07:36 PM (Ia/+0)

150 >>Such a force, if deployed, would shoot every white person they see, and then hook up with their brothers in Islam.

You are assuming other Brigades being deployed.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 07:36 PM (IaZ7c)

151 You don't have an army, Asshole.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:34 PM (8avO+)
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We could overrun Germany with just the National Guard.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 07:36 PM (ZOv7s)

152 He's talking about the Russians, the new bogeyman the EUies use to justify every crewed up thing they do.
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I think we could actually do business with the Russians if we simply stopped giving a single, solitary damn about what Europe thought of it. Let Europe do its own thing--if they want to become a Muslim state, so be it--so long as our side and the Russians aren't arming them any further.
Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 07:30 PM (TN0g+)

We are already doing business with the Russians. If Z and the EUcrats want to delay things, it just gives Russia more time. They are threatening to surround another chunk of the line and capture more troops.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:37 PM (8avO+)

153 I'm reading that JEF's library is not going to have a library. Apparently, anything they would normally have there, records and whatnot, are going to be digitized and put online. The national archives are cut out of it too, it's all going to be run by one of JEF's foundation boondoggles. But no books or records.

I assume it will just be gay ass golden statues of JEF.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:37 PM (3uBP9)

154 You don't have an army, Asshole.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:34 PM (8avO+)
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We could overrun Germany with just the National Guard.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 07:36 PM (ZOv7s)

...and why would we even want to.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:37 PM (8avO+)

155
AI is an energy sink. First day, knock out power plants.

Second day, no AI.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 07:32 PM

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Small scale, single purpose AI for weapons is doable without a grid.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 07:38 PM (azNOR)

156 You can bet just about every mosque has an arms room somewhere on the premises.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Civil war in Europe may be the best thing that can happen to it. Taking sides and all that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:38 PM (xgeFZ)

157 Instead Nuzzi wrote about shagging 50something Keith Olbermann. We sometimes blame women here for, you know, having some perverse fantasies but nobody, but nobody, is rubbin' it to Keith.
So there's hope.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 07:38 PM (gKWVE)

158 I'm reading that JEF's library is not going to have a library. Apparently, anything they would normally have there, records and whatnot, are going to be digitized and put online. The national archives are cut out of it too, it's all going to be run by one of JEF's foundation boondoggles. But no books or records.

I assume it will just be gay ass golden statues of JEF.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:37 PM (3uBP9)

He has a throne room built into it...if he ever goes back to Chicago.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:38 PM (8avO+)

159 120 There is an interesting article at Salt Lake Tribune under Religion section about the Mormon disposal of old magic underwear.

Shredding and used to fuel concrete facilities.

I'm not making fun of it, it is an interesting idea.

well, it *is* a renewable resource...

Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 07:39 PM (sGtp+)

160 Small scale, single purpose AI for weapons is doable without a grid.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 07:38 PM (azNOR)

The computer crunch is to generate the AI image from the training data. Running the completed model is fast and low power.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:40 PM (8avO+)

161 137 You can bet just about every mosque has an arms room somewhere on the premises.

that's not funny

Posted by: michelle fields at December 11, 2025 07:41 PM (sGtp+)

162 AI will be responsible for more energy availability that any Congress will ever appropriate. We will have Small Form Reactors everywhere.
As someone said, we already have many of them in Norfolk.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:41 PM (xgeFZ)

163 161 137 You can bet just about every mosque has an arms room somewhere on the premises.

that's not funny
Posted by: michelle fields
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If it's small arms T-Rex would not be amused.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:42 PM (xgeFZ)

164 Prior to the Cold War, relations between the US and Russia were quite cordial. Obviously the Alaska purchase helped, but at a low point in the Civil War Russia sent a fleet to visit New York. It was a move to piss on the British, but it was also one of the few European powers to not have a serious hard-on for Confederate slave cotton.

I hate the way everything Russian has be vilified. We weren't this bad to the Germans.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 11, 2025 07:35 PM (ZOv7s)

Russia was emancipating the serfs at that time and had a certain sympathy for the US emancipation.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:43 PM (8avO+)

165 He has a throne room built into it...if he ever goes back to Chicago.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:38 PM (8avO+)
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That's just tacky.

Posted by: Emperor Palpatine at December 11, 2025 07:46 PM (ESVrU)

166 158 I'm reading that JEF's library is not going to have a library. Apparently, anything they would normally have there, records and whatnot, are going to be digitized and put online. The national archives are cut out of it too, it's all going to be run by one of JEF's foundation boondoggles. But no books or records.

I assume it will just be gay ass golden statues of JEF.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 07:37 PM (3uBP9)
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It's not going to be at all or otherwise all contrived and bogus. Just like his stint at Columbia and Harvard.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 07:47 PM (xgeFZ)

167 The computer crunch is to generate the AI image from the training data. Running the completed model is fast and low power.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 07:40 PM (8avO+)

Yup.
The huge data centers are just to run models at scale to perform party tricks for users/customers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:47 PM (6ydKt)

168 Based on Sidney Powell's book, Licensed to Lie [a book she wrote prior to becoming infamous] Ruemmler, pre-Obama appt, was one of the US Attys that prosecuted the cases associated with Enron and Arthur Anderson. Powell, as one of the appellate attys for Arthur Anderson non C-Suite defendants, outlines what I consider unethical conduct of the DOJ. Ruemmler was on the team with Andrew Weissman. Their interpretation of Brady re: their duty to disclose exculpatory evidence to the defense was novel as were the crimes conjured [later reversed 9-0 by SCOTUS]. Lives destroyed, rinse, lather, repeat. 22.5 million as an annual reward. Perfect.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at December 11, 2025 07:56 PM (6Jd4e)

169 BREAKING: Utah judge will allow accused Kirk assassin's trial to be televised
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (mlg/3)

Will the defendant be dressed in his furry rat costume? Or will the prosecution make him wear something kinky? Perhaps his My little Pony outfit?

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 11, 2025 07:58 PM (Da7Vv)

170 Russians under Nicholas were relatively happy. Russia was at a cultural apex as we are. Russia did not survive. Sophistication and easier lifestyles (more free time) provide spoils of excess that are the nutrients of decadence.

In Russia's case Bolsheviks and Mensheviks; In our case Woke society and its acolytes. It remains to be seen if we will overcome these obstacles to freedom.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 08:00 PM (xgeFZ)

171 So has Jimmy Kimmel sued Aaron Rogers for implying that Jimmy had Epstein connections? Or did the fact that the late Epstina Virginia Giuffre, identified Jimmy by name in her sworn court testimony as somebody she had sex with on Epstein's property, put the Kibosh on Jimmy's defamation suit?

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 11, 2025 08:07 PM (Da7Vv)

172
I just saw the following this afternoon:
https://is.gd/k2TDJe

That's about an exoplanet, TOI-270 d. It's a planet about 70-ish ly away orbiting a red dwarf. It's looking like this is what was recently dubbed a "hycean" (hydrogen + ocean) planet. Heavy H2 atmosphere, but with a liquid water ocean underneath.

These could be good candidates for life.

I'm thinking I may live to see something very interesting discovered. I think it's just a matter of time, really.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)

173 Least popular Christmas gift according to Amazon

Nuzzle Me Nuzzi

Posted by: Miklos did not order one either at December 11, 2025 09:26 PM (N7hqt)

174 She sucked him off, on demand, full stop.

Posted by: Kevin Cutts at December 11, 2025 09:53 PM (xKHIr)

Lowly District Judge Orders "Maryland Man" and Human Trafficker Kilmar Abrego-Garcia Released from Custody

The judge was appointed by Obama. Weird how the media never points that out. They only note which judges were appointed by Republicans.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued the order, granting Abrego Garcia's petition for relief.
"Since Abrego Garcia's return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority. For this reason, the Court will GRANT Abrego Garcia's Petition for immediate release from ICE custody," Xinis wrote.
...
Federal law enforcement have floated deporting him to an alternate destination, though they have struggled to secure the judicial go-ahead.
"Maryland Obama Judge Panagiota (Paula) Xinis is a lawless and dangerous radical," Article3Projecte found Mike Davis posted on X.
She just illegally ordered the release of "Saint" Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an MS13 terrorist and the Democrat patron saint of wife-beating and human trafficking."

Camilo Montoya-Galvez
@camiloreports
5m
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being released from ICE detention in Pennsylvania after a federal judge ordered his release, his attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg tells me.
"They're booking him out as we speak."

Meanwhile, the communist press is badgering Republicans about missile strikes on... "fishing boats."

Video: Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt goes off on a reporter who referred to drug vessels as "fishing boats."

"Fishing boats? What is a fishing boat?" pic.twitter.com/JMVgw0Uvmt
— The Western Journal (@WesternJournalX) December 11, 2025

Fishing boats?

Do fentanyl precursor chemicals make for good chum? Is coke good bait?

Also: Trump made another big move against communist strongman Maduro, seizing a tanker off the coast of Venezuela alleged to be used to carry Iranian oil with the proceeds going to terrorist groups.

President Trump revealed Wednesday afternoon that U.S. authorities intercepted a Cuba-bound oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, a dramatic move aimed at tightening the squeeze on illicit oil networks operating throughout the region. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump described the vessel as "a very large tanker -- the largest one ever seized in action," hinting that more developments are coming. He declined to get into specifics, saying only that the operation happened "for a very good reason." When asked about the tanker's crude, Trump didn't overcomplicate it. "Well, we keep it, I guess," he said.
According to a U.S. official familiar with the operation, the seizure was executed by the Coast Guard with support from the U.S. Navy after a federal judge green-lit the warrant roughly two weeks ago. Another official told the New York Times the ship -- identified as the Skipper -- had been sailing under a falsified flag and has a documented history of trafficking illicit Iranian oil. The vessel, although carrying Venezuelan crude at the time, was seized because of those Iranian smuggling ties, not because of any direct connection to Nicolás Maduro's regime.
Vanguard, a UK-based maritime risk firm, confirmed Wednesday that the Skipper fits the profile of a tanker previously sanctioned by the United States for operating under the alias Adisa while moving banned Iranian oil. A source speaking to Politico said the ship was on its way to Cuba, where state-run Cubametales intended to flip the cargo to Asian brokers -- an increasingly common workaround as U.S. sanctions isolate both Havana and Caracas from traditional buyers. With most Venezuelan product now flowing to China under the sanctions regime, oil traders began recalibrating almost immediately after the news broke. Prices ticked upward modestly as markets waited to learn whether any Venezuelan crude was on board and how much would be effectively taken off the table.

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple… pic.twitter.com/dNr0oAGl5x
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 10, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 05:45 PM

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Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 11, 2025 05:45 PM (CWTWj)

2 foist?

Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 05:45 PM (sGtp+)

3 Do fentanyl precursor chemicals make for good chum?

i'm not your chum, pal

Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (sGtp+)

4 didn't this guy's wife file for an order of protection three times, once including a pic of her with a black eye? regular salt of the earth

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (CWTWj)

5 d'oh!

Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (sGtp+)

6 italicican't

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 11, 2025 05:47 PM (CWTWj)

7 Be a shame if something happened to Mr. Maryland dad.. It's dangerous out there

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 05:47 PM (VE6XX)

8 Be a shame if something happened to Mr. Maryland dad.. It's dangerous out there
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 05:47 PM (VE6XX)

What did I do??

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 05:48 PM (BBMJX)

9 I posted a link to the story on The Morning Report and was told by a commenter that the story was a lie. Huh.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 05:48 PM (5xuJ/)

10 3 Do fentanyl precursor chemicals make for good chum?

i'm not your chum, pal
Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (sGtp+)

I'm not your pal, sport.

Posted by: Fun with patronizing monikers at December 11, 2025 05:48 PM (TbWk/)

11 "BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being released from ICE detention in Pennsylvania after a federal judge ordered his release, his attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg tells me."

Refer criminal charges for aiding a known terrorist against the judge when this guy disappears.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 05:48 PM (0N4FZ)

12 Do these district judges even have jurisdiction over immigration matters?

Posted by: Butch at December 11, 2025 05:49 PM (98xTj)

13 Nood duties performed

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 05:49 PM (BBMJX)

14 11 "BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being released from ICE detention in Pennsylvania after a federal judge ordered his release, his attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg tells me."

Yeah, and who's paying for his attorney?..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 05:49 PM (VE6XX)

15 Lol, Trump the pirate.
We should have letters-of-marque. Maybe get the Somalis here to help, they should earn their keep for once.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 05:50 PM (gKWVE)

16 i'm not your chum, pal
Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (sGtp+)

I'm not your pal, sport.
Posted by: Fun with patronizing monikers at December 11, 2025 05:48 PM

I'm not your sport, buddy!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 11, 2025 05:50 PM (Wnv9h)

17 > Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being released from ICE detention in Pennsylvania after a federal judge ordered his release...
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What in the holy fuck is going on with this guy? Just suicide him in prison like anyone else you'd rather not deal with.

Fuckity fuck. It's not hard.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 05:51 PM (NwnyJ)

18 re 16: damn canadians

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 11, 2025 05:52 PM (CWTWj)

19 Prices haven't come down fast enough! Put the arsonists back in power!

Posted by: Retardus North Americanus at December 11, 2025 05:52 PM (qUkBO)

20 Speaking of piracy, Yahoo informs me that today is the anniversary of the Lufthansa heist. You might remember that from Goodfellas, from Goodfellas.

Posted by: gKWVE two times at December 11, 2025 05:52 PM (gKWVE)

21 i'm not your chum, pal
Posted by: anachronda

I'm not your pal, sport.
Posted by: Fun with patronizing monikers

I'm not your sport, buddy!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I'm not your buddy, brah.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 05:52 PM (nhCoE)

22 Starting to think the judiciary is not so much corrupted as it has been infiltrated and invaded.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 05:52 PM (WGeqj)

23 Put Abrego and the judge in an ankle monitor built for two.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 05:52 PM (TMvtO)

24 i'm not your chum, pal
Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (sGtp+)

I'm not your pal, sport.
Posted by: Fun with patronizing monikers at December 11, 2025 05:48 PM

I'm not your sport, buddy!

what a bunch of morons

Posted by: Bub at December 11, 2025 05:53 PM (8uzBS)

25 Do fentanyl precursor chemicals make for good chum? Is coke good bait?
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Wasn't there a King of the Hill episode where Hank Hill starts using crack rock for bait? Fish went crazy for it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 05:53 PM (ESVrU)

26 A Honduran illegal stabbed and almost killed a guy on light rail last week. GFM is over $100K for guy who just got out of ICU. In time for the popo to arrest him on beating the shit out of his pregnant girlfriend a couple weeks ago. Throw a rock in Charlotte and hit a felon, y'all.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 05:54 PM (uQzkA)

27 Malicious compliance plz

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 05:54 PM (xcxpd)

28 How much does a judge cost these days?

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 05:54 PM (Q+gd/)

29 13 Nood duties performed
Posted by: Doof

Squeeee!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 05:54 PM (O3C91)

30 Lowly District Judge Orders "Maryland Man" and Human Trafficker Kilmar Abrego-Garcia Released from Custody

From what altitude?

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 05:54 PM (aZ9eR)

31 Also, so we're at war now?

Pretty sure blockades and ship seizures are wartime actions.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 05:55 PM (xcxpd)

32 28 How much does a judge cost these days?
Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 05:54 PM (Q+gd/)

Surprisingly cheap. Like under 50k.
The mystery is why it's always the Left that buys them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 05:55 PM (xcxpd)

33 28 How much does a judge cost these days?
Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 05:54 PM (Q+gd/)

I'm beginning to think they're doing it out of hate for Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 05:55 PM (VE6XX)

34 Strange how the left always gets their big stuff. They wanted Abrego out. No matter how insane that is. And they get it. They can throw anyone of us actual citizens in some dark hole, for any cause, for infinity duration. No biggy. But they want somebody out. Anything done really. Well, it's done. Just like that.

Interesting how it is, how it always is.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 05:55 PM (3uBP9)

35 he did not pay taxes while in the US - jail

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 05:56 PM (g47mK)

36 How much does a judge cost these days?
Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 05:54 PM (Q+gd/)

30 bucks. Same as in town. (inflation)

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 05:57 PM (5xuJ/)

37 23 Put Abrego and the judge in an ankle monitor built for two.
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Put a chip in his brain and tell him not to leave the house.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 05:57 PM (O3C91)

38
Also, so we're at war now?

Pretty sure blockades and ship seizures are wartime actions.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

The War on Dougs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 05:57 PM (pkeXY)

39 Can someone put a bullet in this motherfucker’s head already? Jesus. Can’t anyone here play this game?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 11, 2025 05:58 PM (zc/H+)

40 Put Abrego and the judge in an ankle monitor built for two.

You don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun each other.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 05:58 PM (aZ9eR)

41 From the looks of this judge, she probably named her battery operated boyfriend after him.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 05:59 PM (TMvtO)

42 22 Starting to think the judiciary is not so much corrupted as it has been infiltrated and invaded.
___

The Cartel money flows like spice.

Posted by: Judge Norteamericano at December 11, 2025 05:59 PM (qUkBO)

43 Also, so we're at war now?

Pretty sure blockades and ship seizures are wartime actions.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

The War on Dougs.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 05:57 PM (pkeXY)

About fucking time. Jesus.

Posted by: Todd at December 11, 2025 05:59 PM (TbWk/)

44 Nood duties performed
Posted by: Doof

Squeeee!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 05:54 PM (O3C91)

Smooches!

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 05:59 PM (BBMJX)

45 well if you are throwing rocks at random people i do believe that would make you a felon too

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 05:59 PM (gKWVE)

46 Put Abrego and the judge in an ankle monitor built for two.
------

Deport them both.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 06:00 PM (TN0g+)

47 A fitting end to the "Maryland man" saga would be for some other gangbanger to take him out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 06:00 PM (D+mpw)

48 The War on Dougs.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Take off, hoser

Posted by: Bob, Doug and Miklos McKenzie at December 11, 2025 06:00 PM (N7hqt)

49 47 A fitting end to the "Maryland man" saga would be for some other gangbanger to take him out.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 06:00 PM (D+mpw)

Yes it would

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 06:00 PM (VE6XX)

50 You'd think the environmentalists would be ecstatic about Trump blowing up trawlers.

Now do China's fishing boats.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 06:01 PM (6ydKt)

51 I'm beginning to think they're doing it out of hate for Trump
Posted by: It's me donna

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Beginning?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 06:01 PM (1Nv0l)

52 ***Is coke good bait?
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No, but man can those fish swim.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:01 PM (xgeFZ)

53 Yep, that's the difficult thing we have been living with for a least a half century, the leftist takeover of the courts. And their judges aren't just not neutral, but activists.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 06:01 PM (n5tGW)

54 I keep hearing this "fishing boats" thing, and every time I think, WTF?

These are new, aluminum hulled boats with brand-new high-power quad mercury outboards, moving at 40 knots in international waters, between Venezuela and points north. They are being intercepted > 200 miles off the coast of Venezuela. Thinking for one second they are "fishing" boats is insane.

Venezuela is dirt poor - fishermen cannot afford these boats. The fuel alone to run at that speed...no amount of fishing in a small boat like that could ever pay for the gas, motors, or boat.

People believe this crap because they WANT to believe this crap.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 11, 2025 06:02 PM (gDhA9)

55 So, my wife who shuns most politics has said she thinks Bondi is on the outs.

"Trump has intoned that her reports at every cabinet meeting are a rehash of the last one."

IOW nothing's getting done.

She's out by 31 December.

----> here's my $1 bet on that actually happening.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 06:03 PM (NwnyJ)

56 How are these fishing boats becoming wrecked? It's a mystery.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 11, 2025 06:03 PM (KiBMU)

57 That's a big ship.

And doesn't Maryland Man have a State of Tennessee sentence on him for abduction or something?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 06:03 PM (npFr7)

58 sanctioned oil, could be a band name.

Posted by: Uni-partier at December 11, 2025 06:03 PM (CWGlO)

59 >>> Do these district judges even have jurisdiction over immigration matters?
Posted by: Butch at December 11, 2025 05:49 PM (98xTj)

Does that even matter? Does that matter in time? Does that matter over and over again when there are hundreds of leftist regime enforcers that will just let him out again and no one will ever do anything about it? A system is what it does. We live in a Leftist Regime. They are still in control.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 06:03 PM (3uBP9)

60 The airforce is a few hundred planes short. Most of the airforce is F16s.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 06:04 PM (HuBpl)

61
These are new, aluminum hulled boats with brand-new high-power quad mercury outboards, moving at 40 knots in international waters, between Venezuela and points north.

What would the range of such a vessel be?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 06:04 PM (pkeXY)

62 Maryland Obama Judge Panagiota (Paula) Xinis

If I pick a country at random, think I can go there and become a judge?

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 06:04 PM (aZ9eR)

63 Deport them both.
Posted by: Crusader

To Somalia. To deepen the gene pool.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 06:04 PM (TMvtO)

64 This shit is never gonna fucking end, is it? Like Groundhog Day, but shitty.

Oh well. Just gotta keep living my life. Enjoy while we can. Wife and I might be heading to the Oregon coast over Christmas, since both sons have other plans. never been there in the winter. Hotels are cheap. just gotta watch the weather.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 11, 2025 06:05 PM (0aYVJ)

65 I'm not your pal, sport.
Posted by: Fun with patronizing monikers

Bobby Buntrock played Harold, AKA Sport on the Hazel TV show, 1960-65. He died after driving off a bridge when he was 21 back in his home state.

Posted by: TV Guide at December 11, 2025 06:05 PM (oftw2)

66
sanctioned oil, could be a band name.
Posted by: Uni-partier

Did they open for Midnight Oil?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 06:05 PM (pkeXY)

67 Now do China's fishing boats.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
---------

Now you're talkin'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:05 PM (xgeFZ)

68 Wasn't Maryland Man indicted for trafficking? Put him in gen pop.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 06:06 PM (jc0TO)

69 Does Xinis mean girl-penis?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 11, 2025 06:06 PM (0aYVJ)

70 Shirley Booth!!

Posted by: Hubba hubba! at December 11, 2025 06:06 PM (3rtaB)

71 Who else can refine heavy sour crude?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 06:06 PM (HuBpl)

72 Bondi does not seem to be getting the things done that need to be done. We don't have time for ineffective.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 06:06 PM (vFG9F)

73 I never see any fishing poles on those boats....

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2025 06:07 PM (YwEeS)

74 Putin and that panda president will watch closely to study Trumps war methodology.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 06:07 PM (EyfuW)

75 Those trawlers when they leave international waters and enter national territorial water they turn their transponders off.

What would happen if they never came back on?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:07 PM (xgeFZ)

76 sanctioned oil, could be a band name.
Posted by: Uni-partier

Did they open for Midnight Oil?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 06:05 PM (pkeXY

Yeah, the Light My Fire cover.

Posted by: Uni-partier at December 11, 2025 06:07 PM (CWGlO)

77 Judges has always been da go-to guys.

Posted by: Cicci at December 11, 2025 06:07 PM (Q+gd/)

78 51 I'm beginning to think they're doing it out of hate for Trump
___

It's beginning to look like Trump hate,
Everywhere I go....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 06:08 PM (Dv3i1)

79 Also, so we're at war now?

Pretty sure blockades and ship seizures are wartime actions.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 05:55 PM

Whose flag was the tanker flying? Was in Venezuela?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 06:09 PM (jc0TO)

80 These are new, aluminum hulled boats with brand-new high-power quad mercury outboards, moving at 40 knots in international waters, between Venezuela and points north. They are being intercepted > 200 miles off the coast of Venezuela. Thinking for one second they are "fishing" boats is insane.

Venezuela is dirt poor - fishermen cannot afford these boats. The fuel alone to run at that speed...no amount of fishing in a small boat like that could ever pay for the gas, motors, or boat.

People believe this crap because they WANT to believe this crap.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 11, 2025 06:02 PM (gDhA9)

They are basically Temu cigarette boats. It would be interesting to learn where the hulls and motors are being sourced.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 06:09 PM (npFr7)

81 Hey. Let's see YOU run a cabinet level department from the Fox News green room!

Posted by: Pamela Blondie at December 11, 2025 06:09 PM (3rtaB)

82 Oh well. Just gotta keep living my life. Enjoy while we can. Wife and I might be heading to the Oregon coast over Christmas, since both sons have other plans. never been there in the winter. Hotels are cheap. just gotta watch the weather.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Nasty winter storms on the coast are AWESOME. Best time of year to be there imho.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 06:10 PM (tH3ut)

83 These are new, aluminum hulled boats with brand-new high-power quad mercury outboards, moving at 40 knots in international waters, between Venezuela and points north.

What would the range of such a vessel be?
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Not nearly enough to reach US waters from Venezuela. Certainly not out on the open ocean... I doubt they're built for that unless it's unusually calm. And the range... is beyond their onboard ability.

So.... I think they run up the Central American coast and jet into Mexico to off load. The drugs are then transported overland into the US.

If I was in charge.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 06:11 PM (NwnyJ)

84 As far as deporting Garcia goes, just do it. Argue about it later. Just get him out of here and arrest him again if he comes back.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 06:11 PM (vFG9F)

85 72 Bondi does not seem to be getting the things done that need to be done. We don't have time for ineffective.
Posted by: fd
---

You missed her last press conference, she's on it, man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:11 PM (xgeFZ)

86 She might be of a foreign mindset but looked her up on Wiki and seems to be born in America

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 06:12 PM (Ia/+0)

87
Martha's Vineyard could use a good artificial reef, just offshore. The Navy could use some missile training against a suitable tanker target hulk.

The SINKEX would provide the residents with quality entertainment for the whole family.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 06:12 PM (y9nCu)

88 >> Wasn't there a King of the Hill episode where Hank Hill starts using crack rock for bait? Fish went crazy for it.

One of the best episodes. Almost as good as the one where he accidentally becomes a pimp and has a run-in with a real pimp voiced by Snoop Dogg.

Posted by: the dandy at December 11, 2025 06:12 PM (8l8nW)

89 >>Venezuela is dirt poor - fishermen cannot afford these boats. The fuel alone to run at that speed...no amount of fishing in a small boat like that could ever pay for the gas, motors, or boat.

I've been on fishing boats all my life. Those are not fishing boats. The hull is built for one thing, going fast.

Democrats pretend to not understand things just so they can pretend they have an issue.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 06:12 PM (viF8m)

90 Bondi does not seem to be getting the things done that need to be done. We don't have time for ineffective.
Posted by: fd
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You missed her last press conference, she's on it, man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:11 PM

In fairness, she has 2nd Amendment rights to trample. She's busy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 06:12 PM (jc0TO)

91 From twitter, this is exactly where I'm at said much better:

Oilfield Rando:

You simply can’t sell people on how great the Constitution and “rule of law” are when it’s illegal to deport or even DETAIN illegal alien criminals.

The “principles” are all bullshit if that’s the reality on the ground.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 06:12 PM (3uBP9)

92 Should through all the Immigration Judges out since any Commisar Judge is now a Immigration Judge.

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)

93 These are new, aluminum hulled boats with brand-new high-power quad mercury outboards, moving at 40 knots in international waters, between Venezuela and points north.

What would the range of such a vessel be?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 06:04 PM

They burn fuel in the gallons per hour range at that speed. Even with full tanks and a bunch of spare cans those guys are barely able to make their deliveries.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 06:13 PM (0N4FZ)

94 70 Shirley Booth!!
Posted by: Hubba hubba!

There's a picture of Shirley on her wiki page in the embrace of a young Humphrey Bogart in 1925. She looked pretty good. Also, she is one of only about two dozen people on the planet to win the Triple Crown of Acting, Tony, Emmy, Oscar.

Posted by: Mr. Baxter at December 11, 2025 06:14 PM (oftw2)

95 So.... I think they run up the Central American coast and jet into Mexico to off load. The drugs are then transported overland into the US.

If I was in charge.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 06:11 PM (NwnyJ)

I'm guessing they rendezvous at sea with a U.S. registered fishing boat or work boat, transfer the cargo, and get enough gasoline pumped into their tanks for the crew to make it back to VZ unladen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 06:14 PM (npFr7)

96 "You missed her last press conference, she's on it, man"

On what? The only reason Comey, Brennen, and the rest of the commie rat bastards are sweating is the umbrella on their beach chair needs adjusting.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 06:14 PM (vFG9F)

97 No one gets to any position of power or authority in this country without being a Marxist loon.
I always thought of Obama’s historical analogy being the Stuart era of Britain or the Norman conquest of England.

Posted by: Accomack at December 11, 2025 06:14 PM (8jVAy)

98 > What would the range of such a vessel be?

They're probably carrying ~500 gallons for a range ~400 nautical miles.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 06:15 PM (Yp6az)

99 If we have to kill them, have a drone navy boat to do the deed.

Being kill by a robot would be cold and embarrassing.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 06:15 PM (EyfuW)

100 They burn fuel in the gallons per hour range at that speed. Even with full tanks and a bunch of spare cans those guys are barely able to make their deliveries.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 06:13 PM (0N4FZ)

I would estimate their fuel burn rate to be about 25 gallons per hour at cruise speed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 06:16 PM (npFr7)

101
So.... I think they run up the Central American coast and jet into Mexico to off load. The drugs are then transported overland into the US.

If I was in charge.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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There's that crescent chain of islands they could hop from one to the other. Boat had 5 outboards, that's a lot of petrol. Can't have much range. Suck up 25 to 50 gallons an hour - speculating.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:16 PM (xgeFZ)

102 Could not do Taco Tuesday this week so had to do Taco Thursday.

Just finished two chicken fajita tacos.
Loved 'em.

Added too much hot sauce, though.
While it tasted great my sinuses are now cleared and I can barely feel the corners of my lips and my tongue seems to have gone numb.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 06:16 PM (6ydKt)

103 I'm not big on the looks are determinative stuff, but Judge Xinis looks like several neurotic chain smoking woman attorneys I've known through the yrs. I wouldn't want them on the bench either

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 06:16 PM (D+mpw)

104 If doing the right thing is impossible and doing the most wrong thing is fine, barely an inconvenience, encouraged even, well, it's all bullshit then, and the legal system, in toto, is worthless.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 06:16 PM (3uBP9)

105 So, all of us here said it was a horribly stupid idea to bring him back to the US, no matter how airtight a case they had against him.

Yet Bindi crowed that he would never go free.

He is now free.
And now he will also win his malicious prosecution case.
And another judge will order his asylum indefinitely.
He will stay free and he will shuttled all over the US as the face of the wronged.

All because Bindi couldn't take the heat from the press of "wrongfully deported."
All she had to say was, "he has the best lawyers in the world and the most sympathetic judges anywhere--if they can convince Salvador to let him live free in Salvador, then we won't object."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 06:17 PM (HXT0k)

106 My guess is the powers to be agreed to confiscate the drugs for ghetto resale. No sense in hookin' the fishes.

Posted by: Uni-partier at December 11, 2025 06:17 PM (CWGlO)

107
What would the range of such a vessel be?

They're probably carrying ~500 gallons for a range ~400 nautical miles.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 06:15 PM (Yp6az)

400 miles of getting beat up in a small boat zipping over the open sea. Oy vey.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 06:18 PM (y9nCu)

108 > I've been on fishing boats all my life. Those are not fishing boats. The hull is built for one thing, going fast.
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And, IIRC... not too far without a "fill up."

Thus... they're hugging the Central American coast and "hopscotching" up to Mexico. It's about 500nm straight line from the most northern point in VZ to the US.

Maybe the narco-terrorists are launching from elsewhere... but... damn, that's a long haul over open ocean at 40kts.

They obviously have help.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 06:18 PM (NwnyJ)

109 I don't know how much gas they use, but they sure splode real pretty.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 06:18 PM (n5tGW)

110 DDG Search Assist:

The fuel consumption of outboard engines can vary, but a typical large outboard engine might burn around 15 to 25 gallons per hour at wide-open throttle, depending on its horsepower and efficiency. For five big outboard engines, you could estimate a total fuel burn of approximately 75 to 125 gallons per hour.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:19 PM (xgeFZ)

111
Keeping my accidental sock for this thread, too.

--Blonde Morticia

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 06:19 PM (1N/bM)

112 Fajitas, that would be good for cologne.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 06:19 PM (EyfuW)

113 The theater kids are at it again. They are going to drop blocks of ice into Boston Harbor to protest, wait for it.....ICE. So edgy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 06:19 PM (D+mpw)

114 400 miles of getting beat up in a small boat zipping over the open sea. Oy vey.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 06:18 PM (y9nCu)

I think I read the other day that these smugglers are making $100,000 a load, so that will buy some pretty good painkillers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 06:20 PM (6ydKt)

115 >>Maybe the narco-terrorists are launching from elsewhere... but... damn, that's a long haul over open ocean at 40kts.

It can be a beating. They are definitely stopping between Venezuela and the US. Probably why they are being vague on where the boats are being hit, don't want to show what they know.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 06:20 PM (viF8m)

116
U.S. District Judge P. Xinis

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 06:21 PM (azNOR)

117 I'd be willing to bet that for the first couple months of 25 the military was mapping out the routes using drones and satellites. Then "Surprise"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 06:22 PM (D+mpw)

118 400 miles of getting beat up in a small boat zipping over the open sea. Oy vey.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I think I read the other day that these smugglers are making $100,000 a load, so that will buy some pretty good painkillers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

And they probably know a guy who sells them.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 06:23 PM (nhCoE)

119 108 > I've been on fishing boats all my life. Those are not fishing boats. The hull is built for one thing, going fast.
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And, IIRC... not too far without a "fill up."

Thus... they're hugging the Central American coast and "hopscotching" up to Mexico.

maybe some of those barrels you see in the boats are full of gas

Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 06:23 PM (sGtp+)

120 400 miles of getting beat up in a small boat zipping over the open sea. Oy vey.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at
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400 miles at 45mph = 8hr 45minutes 8.75
8.75hrs X 125 gallons per hour = 1111.11 gallons

I don't think those boats have room for that much fuel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:23 PM (xgeFZ)

121 Also: Trump made another big move against communist strongman Maduro, seizing a tanker off the coast of Venezuela alleged to be used to carry Iranian oil with the proceeds going to terrorist groups.

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"It was transporting FISHING OIL, H8R!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:24 PM (25a1J)

122 400 miles of getting beat up in a small boat zipping over the open sea. Oy vey.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 06:18 PM

I had a 20 foot bayliner with a 150 hp outboard motor on it. When I got up on plane in long island sound those waves could be brutal depending on which way the wind was blowing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 06:25 PM (0N4FZ)

123 Now I'm willing to entertain that there is a bigger play to be sprung by releasing Maryland Man.

But so far, the whole thing has been pretty damned embarrassingly incompetent.

Especially that not one thing they promised would happen, has.

The DOJ had one win in all this: SCOTUS said the courts couldn't force the Executive to conduct foreign policy and return him.
And they threw that away for ... nothing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 06:26 PM (HXT0k)

124 Anything done really. Well, it's done. Just like that."

Yep. Feeling like a first rate sucker for following the rules...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 06:26 PM (cGjQu)

125 NO MATH!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 06:26 PM (OobVu)

126 There was always a 0% chance Maryland Man was getting deported.

The judiciary is a terrorist organization.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 06:26 PM (9iyS+)

127 Reading a couple criminals let free at Revolver News, it's sooner or later you want justice better do it yourself

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 06:27 PM (Ia/+0)

128 Why would they go by boat to Panama when they are already there.?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:27 PM (xgeFZ)

129 It can be a beating. They are definitely stopping between Venezuela and the US. Probably why they are being vague on where the boats are being hit, don't want to show what they know.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 06:20 PM (viF8m)

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Do the ChiComms have refueling submarines in The Caribbean?

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:28 PM (25a1J)

130 Assume 40+ knots.

500 (straight line) nautical miles.

Even with gas... that's a long time to be out on the open ocean in a "small" boat. And don't discount weather.

Yea.... they're getting help. Probably from us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 06:29 PM (NwnyJ)

131 Bondi also allowed prosecutors with issues to be selected to lead the LeTit James and James Shitbag cases.

Trump thought he was getting a wing girl what he’s got is a dipshit for AG.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 06:29 PM (XV/Pl)

132 If bondi is out maybe we get Trey gowdy in. Trump likes blondes. Malfoy looking freak.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 06:30 PM (uQzkA)

133 No Republican in government, from the executive branch on down will ever care as much for your concerns as they fear angering their leftist regime masters. Not ever.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 06:30 PM (3uBP9)

134 If you look for a photo of this “judge” she looks like you think she looks.

She got about 10 Republican votes including Bitch McConnell. Because of course he voted for her.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 06:30 PM (9iyS+)

135 Nah. They use "mother ships". Pretty standard.

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 06:30 PM (cGjQu)

136 Lowly District Judge Orders "Maryland Man" and Human Trafficker Kilmar Abrego-Garcia Released from Custody
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Shouldn't that read "Grand High Exalted District Judge"?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 11, 2025 06:31 PM (s0JqF)

137 "Bondi also allowed prosecutors with issues to be selected to lead the LeTit James and James Shitbag cases."

I'm not seeing a lot of winning. There was supposed to be more winning.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

138 The hull is built for one thing, going fast."

This. FWIW, the old man was friends with Don Aronow....
Fun stuff.

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 06:32 PM (cGjQu)

139 Americans are not a bunch of commie pussies. That's the only answer to give to the BBC.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 11, 2025 06:33 PM (wBaIH)

140 135 Nah. They use "mother ships". Pretty standard.
Posted by: man
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If they use a mothership it's ours. We, Russia, China, and maybe India know everything that's on the water.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:33 PM (xgeFZ)

141 This “judge” was confirmed when the GOP controlled the senate in 2015. They hate you as much as the Dems.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 06:33 PM (9iyS+)

142 Meanwhile, the communist press is badgering Republicans about missile strikes on... "fishing boats."

The Press is nothing more than a fifth column. And as such, should be destroyed, 1st Amendment be damned. And I realize what I just said, but without drastic, even draconian action the 1st along with the rest of the Constitution just becomes the Republic's suicide note.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 06:33 PM (FJHWH)

143
According to Grok, these "go-fast" boats make short dashes to islands like Trinidad and Tobago, and then offload the cargo to other ships and aircraft, refuel then head back.

The routes they use are constantly changing, and all that. But these short go-fast trips can be very profitable.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 06:33 PM (w6EFb)

144 Qdpsteve is getting the MUMR treatment apparently.

Posted by: It's a strange world at December 11, 2025 06:34 PM (TbWk/)

145 Fishing boats? Really?

I guess the commies had square groupers on their minds.

Posted by: mrp at December 11, 2025 06:34 PM (rj6Yv)

146 I'm not seeing a lot of winning. There was supposed to be more winning.
Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

Bro Trump is like totally pwning the libs on Truth social. What more do you want?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 06:34 PM (9iyS+)

147 Judge Pxenis is probably just pissed about her name.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 06:35 PM (vFG9F)

148 Nah. They use "mother ships". Pretty standard.
Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 06:30 PM (cGjQu)

Listens for "beedle-ee, beedle-ee, beedle-ee" alien noises.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 06:36 PM (npFr7)

149 No Republican in government, from the executive branch on down will ever care as much for your concerns as they fear angering their leftist regime masters. Not ever.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 06:30 PM (3uBP9)

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"Hello, my name is ShainS -- and I'm a Battered Conservative Survivor of *checks watch* 36 years."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:36 PM (25a1J)

150
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 11, 2025 06:32 PM (6hbjy

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You're not him.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 06:37 PM (azNOR)

151 Bondi's a problem. She timid.

Trump's attraction to young, blond chicks is also a problem. One that seriously needs to be addressed.

His brunettes.. Gabbard and Noem are fairing a bit better.

But.... there are no death sentences parsed out by firing squad so....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 06:37 PM (NwnyJ)

152 I just had a great idea. Trump needs to implement a Terror Alert Level like we used to have for islamist terror. Except this one need to be for threats from the Left. He could have it behind him at every press conference. They shoot at a conservative commentator's house? Raise the level. You know. It think it's an idea well past its time. He'll they're gonna do it to us next time they get in.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 06:37 PM (E0p3T)

153 Judge Pxenis is probably just pissed about her name.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 06:35 PM (vFG9F)

Her birth name was Panagiota Xinis. She changed it to Paula for some indiscernible (Heh) reason.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 06:39 PM (FJHWH)

154

Bondi is like a Trump first term appointment.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 06:39 PM (azNOR)

155 Bondi's a problem. She timid.

Trump's attraction to young, blond chicks is also a problem. One that seriously needs to be addressed.

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She’s 60 years old. Not so young.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 06:40 PM (9iyS+)

156 From twitter, this is exactly where I'm at said much better:

Oilfield Rando:

You simply can’t sell people on how great the Constitution and “rule of law” are when it’s illegal to deport or even DETAIN illegal alien criminals.

The “principles” are all bullshit if that’s the reality on the ground.
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Nailed it.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 06:40 PM (TN0g+)

157 Crockett is widely considered to be the embodiment of leftist DEI - A low intelligence person artificially elevated into law and politics because of her minority status

… I don’t believe that for a minute. She is trying to figure how the rules of the political road. She will do whatever it takes to get ahead.

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 06:40 PM (Xac3k)

158 Do the ChiComms have refueling submarines in The Caribbean?

/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:28 PM

Milchkuh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 06:40 PM (jc0TO)

159 ‘Gotta check your oil there, Mowgli.’

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 06:40 PM (o2ZRX)

160 If I went fishing I want a boat to do 35 knots

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)

161 Qdpsteve is getting the MUMR treatment apparently.

Posted by: It's a strange world at December 11, 2025 06:34 PM (TbWk/)

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Yep, bannable offense socking a regular -- but hard to enforce these days with unlimited email addresses and VPN IPs.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:40 PM (25a1J)

162 Nah. They use "mother ships". Pretty standard.
Posted by: man at

What was the tanker used for?

Posted by: Operator Error at December 11, 2025 06:41 PM (j0hB7)

163
Apparently, a typical run for these go-fast boats (that's what they call them) is under 200 nm. The run to Trinidad takes up to an hour, about 50 nm path max.

That's the most common run. Next up is to Aruba or Curaco, around 120 nm max, 2 hour max.

Sometimes, they try a long run to the Dominican Republic, up to 600 nm, taking maybe 12 hours, but that's risky. Grok says the fuel tanks are 400-800 gallons, and they'll carry extra fuel in drums for any longer run attempts. The faster they go the more fuel they'll burn, and the more extra fuel, the less drugs they can carry.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 06:43 PM (w6EFb)

164 Posted by: qdpsteve at December 11, 2025 06:32 PM (6hbjy

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You're not him.
Posted by: S

This is true, somebody socking him illegally

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 06:43 PM (7neCS)

165 They are island hoping around the islands.
The dope could be coming from Havana to Alabama.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:44 PM (xgeFZ)

166 Milchkuh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 06:40 PM (jc0TO)

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Milk Cows FTW!

/And suddenly its a teets thread ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:44 PM (25a1J)

167
I wonder how many drug speedboats are getting through?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 06:44 PM (azNOR)

168 I sure hope Bondi doesn't becomes this term's Jeff Sessions.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (FJHWH)

169 How is Xinis pronounced? I did some research and I am pretty sure it is pronounced like the English letter "p." The Internet being the Internet that could wrong.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (GSmR5)

170
They'll also have fishing boats staged for refueling stops too, sometimes.

And these things are very risky. If the weather goes south, it's certain death for the crew, and that has happened more than a few times.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (w6EFb)

171 Apparently, a typical run for these go-fast boats (that's what they call them) is under 200 nm.

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200 nanometers?

Oh, nautical miles ... nevermind!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (25a1J)

172 a reporter who referred to drug vessels as "fishing boats."

That mislabeling seems to happen quite a bit. Black men are labeled white, rabid dem murderers are labeled as conservative MAGA Trump supporters, all of them have a spark of the divine we don't seem to have...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 06:46 PM (ynpvh)

173 174 Apparently, a typical run for these go-fast boats (that's what they call them) is under 200 nm.

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200 nanometers?

Oh, nautical miles ... nevermind!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 06:45 PM (25a1J)

COVID is a bitch!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 06:46 PM (ynpvh)

174 170
I wonder how many drug speedboats are getting through?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 06:44 PM (azNOR)

None.

Posted by: Leftist Reporter at December 11, 2025 06:47 PM (ynpvh)

175 in an open boat, open ocean, even in nice weather, that's a bitch

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 06:47 PM (7neCS)

176 This is true, somebody socking him illegally
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 06:43 PM (7neCS)

But is a bannee a regular?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 06:47 PM (npFr7)

177 according to El Colombiano, the Medellin online paper, Maria Corina-Machado got help from the US to escape Venezuela to go to Oslo to get her Nobel.
She first donned disguises to get to a fishing port, then on a launch from that small harbor, sailed to Curacao while the USN flew F-18s into Venezuelan airspace to the dismay and distraction of the Venezuelans, and then after spending the night in a hotel, took a private plane to Sweden.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 06:47 PM (rbvCR)

178 169 Milchkuh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 06:40 PM (jc0TO)

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Milk Cows FTW!

/And suddenly its a teets thread ...

udderly preposterous

Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 06:48 PM (sGtp+)

179
Crockett is widely considered to be the embodiment of leftist DEI - A low intelligence person artificially elevated into law and politics because of her minority status

… I don’t believe that for a minute. She is trying to figure how the rules of the political road. She will do whatever it takes to get ahead.
Posted by: SMOD

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She has openly talked about doing what's best for "her brand." Influencers and content creators use different professions or activities for their storylines -- food, fashion, showbiz, gender identity, travel, eccentric lifestyles like tiny homes or being Japanese, sheer money, goofy families. For Crockett, it's politics. That's my take.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 06:48 PM (1N/bM)

180 I wonder how many drug speedboats are getting through?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 06:44 PM (azNOR)

The street price of cocaine in Europe has gone up 50-75%

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 06:48 PM (rbvCR)

181 >>> all of them have a spark of the divine we don't seem to have...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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They are in the know and we are stupid pesants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:48 PM (xgeFZ)

182 This is true, somebody socking him illegally
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 06:43 PM (7neCS)

But is a bannee a regular?
Posted by: Alber

That is a question, however, then ban the guy socking

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 06:48 PM (7neCS)

183 pissants

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:49 PM (xgeFZ)

184 Bondi's a problem. She timid.

Trump's attraction to young, blond chicks is also a problem. One that seriously needs to be addressed.

—

Seriously, did Trump she going to streamroll his enemies like she did Zimmerman?

She should have been imprisoned for malicious prosecution.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 11, 2025 06:49 PM (j0hB7)

185 NOOD Jeffrey.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 06:49 PM (ynpvh)

186
the USN flew F-18s into Venezuelan airspace

Posted by: Kindltot

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Jeez, no wonder she dedicated her prize to Donald Trump.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 06:49 PM (1N/bM)

187 I'm perfectly fine with a nice tittied facade that hides a team of rough, vindictive, agents taking down the left's power structures. But no, doesn't look like there's anything else.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 06:50 PM (3uBP9)

188 150 Listens for "beedle-ee, beedle-ee, beedle-ee" alien noises.

sounds like an oscillation overthruster

Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 06:52 PM (sGtp+)

189
179

But is a bannee a regular?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 06:47 PM (npFr7)

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I'd say close enough.

The sock puppet is a troll trying to raise shit and interfere with operation of the web site.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 06:52 PM (azNOR)

190 The street price of cocaine in Europe has gone up 50-75%
Posted by: Kindltot
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Could be the drugs these boats are carrying are destined for Europe. Go so far around the crescent islands and offload to transport to Europe.

The blowing up is part of Venezuela's siege.

All the while Pacific Coast Guard are interdicting drugs bound for America.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 06:53 PM (xgeFZ)

191
Again, according to Grok, the majority of the go-fast cocaine traffic goes to Europe. Some comes here, but the majority goes to Europe.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 07:01 PM (w6EFb)

192 Blowin' up cocaine boats...
It's how we make "cracked" crab!

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 11, 2025 08:47 PM (DzC+b)

193 Cant even deport a foreign criminal illegal gang-banger.

Posted by: mossomo at December 12, 2025 09:59 AM (pky95)

Tom Homan: You Better Believe We're Investigating Ilhan Omar for Immigration Fraud

She is here illegally. Deport her.

Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, said during a Newsmax appearance on Monday that the administration is investigating Representative Ilhan Omar for alleged immigration fraud.
"I just got advised by a fraud investigator the other day on that. I asked the question, can we review the files? You know, there was immigration fraud involved," Homan said on Newsmax. "The statute of limitation became an issue in the last four years when this was first brought up."
He continued, "Pulling the records now, pulling the files, and we're looking at it. But this fraud investigator, who I know personally, one of the best fraud investigators in HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, said there's no doubt he'd review the file. So, I'm running that down this week as a matter of fact, and we'll see."

The following has been credibly alleged and supported with evidence:

Ilhan "Omar" Nur committed immigration fraud twice.

The second time was when she married her own brother -- while already married to her real husband -- to get her gay brother permanent residence in the US.

The first time was when she first came over. The patriarch of the Omar family had refugee status for his family. But Ilhan was not his daughter -- she is the daughter of a man named Nur, who she repeatedly called her "father" before people noticed her calling this man Nur "father" instead of her supposed father Omar. (She would later claim that it's a custom in her particular village in Somalia to call people who aren't your father "father" out of respect. No one else has ever heard of this "custom.")

She pretended to be part of the Omar family when she came over. But she wasn't. She's part of the Nur family, and never had legal permission to come.

Posted by: Ace at 04:38 PM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

2 Yessss!!! I'll cull the otters.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

3 Sure, just as we were starting to discuss Supergirl's boobs, a new thread.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 04:39 PM (Q+gd/)

4 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 11, 2025 04:40 PM (3rtaB)

5 Otter status: Culled.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

6 Things are starting to move now -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 04:40 PM (mfF2X)

7 Omar isn't even her name. That lie alone is enough to invalidate her citizenship.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 04:40 PM (jc0TO)

8 So she's deported...still serving member?

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 04:40 PM (XuXeR)

9 Seize her ill gotten gains, toss her overboard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 04:40 PM (snZF9)

10 NOTHING WILL HAPPEN

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 04:41 PM (zjgNU)

11 She is here illegally. Deport her.

Exactly. I don't care about any news about her until it is "Ilhan Omar is being arrested, removed from office and deported. And banned from ever returning."

Until that happens, this is all just worthless talk.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:41 PM (P5BPp)

12 6 Things are starting to move now -
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Just give us a little time...

Posted by: Prune juice and bran at December 11, 2025 04:41 PM (3rtaB)

13 no more talking!

deporting!!!!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 04:41 PM (emBoF)

14 8 So she's deported...still serving member?
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Let's see, consulting the Constitution, runs finger down to the Good & Plenty clause...yep, still serving.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)

15 Wo ist Steiner?

Posted by: Er kommt? at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (ue6pG)

16 Our wonderful country attracts psychopaths from around the world!!!

New inscription on Statue of Liberty

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (kwWDM)

17 Time to take out the garbage.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (HuBpl)

18 I'm willing to believe George Santos is a nasty person who did bad things, but no way in hell is he as bad as Omar. That Congressional Republicans will tolerate her and not him is infuriating.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (GD2xa)

19 Willowed: I knew the Covid vaccine was a fake the day they told us (essential workers) to go get it. I simply asked my boss, "If I get the shot, I don't have to wear this stupid mask anymore, right?" When he told me I would have to continue masking, I knew it was all a lie.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 11, 2025

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I knew the testing was all theater early on. At my work we were supposed to be tested at random. So I went twice. The second time they left me on my own to take my nose sample. I simply put the q-tip into the jar without probing my proboscis.

Result: Negative. Not "We did not have material for a sample; please come in again." Just "negative."

I stopped going, and there were never any repercussions. There was no enforcement. They just expected us to comply like good little workers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (wzUl9)

20 This shouldn't be hard. There are original applications that she signed that can be easily checked. If there is fraud boot her out of the country.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (0N4FZ)

21 If Homan brings charges I assume some lefty judge will dismiss because some people are above the law.

But it would be worth it

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 04:43 PM (sKqQm)

22 This is another of my "litmus tests" for the administration. One other is whether anything will come of the international terrorist group Antifa. Specifically in and around Portland, OR.

Deporting the entirety of the Somali population in MN would be... awesome. And much needed.

Throw in prison time for Walz and Ellison and I'd consider my Christmas wishes fulfilled.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 04:43 PM (NwnyJ)

23 bloopglip fweetfook

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at December 11, 2025 04:43 PM (yyi7Y)

24 Nancy Mace will come.

Posted by: Steiner at December 11, 2025 04:43 PM (jc0TO)

25 Are we sure she is even from Somalia? It sounds as if she will lie about anything and everything, so maybe start checking ALL of her claims.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 04:43 PM (H+q0i)

26
Speaking of adult pretenders...

anyone ever hear of someone named "kristin stewart?" I think she's a hollywood celery.

Anyways, she blames Hollywoods failures on, get this, "capitalism," and "racism." [checks notes] Oh, wait, she's not done. She also blames "misogyny."

I guess she forgot the "homo" one.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 04:43 PM (rnXZH)

27 Wo ist Steiner?

Steiner ging auf Disney Welt.

Posted by: Matt Drudge at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (Riz8t)

28 Deport her via Air Pinochet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (D+mpw)

29 I cannot believe she will be deported, even though she should be. It would be BLM ( Somalia) riots again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (PFs9e)

30 I don't see them ever deporting a sitting Congress critter.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (Yp6az)

31 Lowest gas prices in country are in OK $2.50
==
paid 2.49 earlier this week.

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (kwWDM)

32 Steiner-Optik?

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (XuXeR)

33
Who woulda guessed we'd be pining for the good ol' days of Michelle Bachmann....

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (rnXZH)

34 How long does it take to 'review a file' and why isn't it done already?

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (Q+gd/)

35 Prediction:
More Republicans voted to remove George Santos than will vote to remove Ilhan Omar.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 04:45 PM (IaZ7c)

36 Also, her illegal status aside, she should be kicked out of her elected position and kicked out of the country for her behavior while in an elected government position.

Even if she somehow is a legal citizen of the USA, she surely has broken her oath taken when becoming a citizen and then again broke her oath of office in government to serve the USA.

That alone should be grounds for revoking her citizenship and deporting her, never to return.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:45 PM (P5BPp)

37 Are we sure she is even from Somalia? It sounds as if she will lie about anything and everything, so maybe start checking ALL of her claims.

Who would claim to be from Somalia if they weren't? Is there someplace worse?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

38 Lowest gas prices in country are in OK $2.50
1 year ago they were higher $2.52
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 11, 2025

***
Bull. I see $2.12-2.19 here in LA now and $2.29 is frequent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:45 PM (wzUl9)

39 Anyways, she blames Hollywoods failures on, get this, "capitalism," and "racism." [checks notes] Oh, wait, she's not done. She also blames "misogyny."

Absent capitalism there would be no Hollywood.

The USSR and Mao's PRC did make movies, but it was not a high status/high paying job and the movies were all intended to just push whatever line the state wanted pushed at that time

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 04:45 PM (sKqQm)

40
Now we got mace, luna, bobo, and greene she-hulk...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 04:45 PM (rnXZH)

41 I don't see them ever deporting a sitting Congress critter.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM

Non-citizens can't be Congressmen.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 04:46 PM (jc0TO)

42 Leave my good friend [checks notes] Ilhan alone!

Posted by: MTG Ultra at December 11, 2025 04:46 PM (qUkBO)

43 >>anyone ever hear of someone named "kristin stewart?" I think she's a hollywood celery.

>Anyways, she blames Hollywoods failures on, get this, "capitalism," and "racism." [checks notes] Oh, wait, she's not done. She also blames "misogyny."

She is on the wrong side of The Wall for anyone to care about her concerns.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 04:46 PM (IaZ7c)

44 Bull. I see $2.12-2.19 here in LA now and $2.29 is frequent.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:45 PM

The Dunce literally knows nothing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 04:46 PM (jc0TO)

45 I knew the COVID vaccine was a fraud when they started arguing that you needed to get it even if you'd just had COVID.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

46 She was 13 when she arrived in the US with her "adopted" family. She may be here illegally, however an adult was the one who perpetrated the fraud. That said, I don't like her, she's anti-American and an asshat somali reject. Throw the book at her.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (2NHgQ)

47 But when they came for the Somalis, I said Make Sure You Get All The Somalis.

Posted by: Just the punchline at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (3rtaB)

48 Non-citizens can't be Congressmen."

Oh yeah?

/Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (XuXeR)

49 Lowest gas prices in country are in OK $2.50
1 year ago they were higher $2.52
------

Wrong on both counts. I've seen $2.18 today, and I'm not the type who actively shops to squeeze the last nickel out of a gallon of gas. Gas was in the $3+ a gallon for the bulk of the "Weekend at Bernie's" presidency.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (TN0g+)

50 Oh, and she may have aided and abetted the defrauding of Minnesota taxpayers.

Deport her into a foreign prison.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (TMvtO)

51 >>anyone ever hear of someone named "kristin stewart?" I think she's a hollywood celery.

>Anyways, she blames Hollywoods failures on, get this, "capitalism," and "racism." [checks notes] Oh, wait, she's not done. She also blames "misogyny."

She is on the wrong side of The Wall for anyone to care about her concerns.

I believe she was in the Twilight movies. She's mildly attractive in a Goth sort of way.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

52 The Dunce literally knows nothing.
==
Disagree. He knows things. Its just that everything he knows is wrong.

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (kwWDM)

53 All files go to Blondi's desk to die a proper death.

Posted by: Penske File, Too at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (oftw2)

54
You know what the last 4 weeks has been like? Like the Democrats are emboldened again and think it's 2021.

They're bringing all their Failed Bullshit back out of the trash heap like it's in style again.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (rnXZH)

55 I really wish that these blatant frauds would get punished, but even if the DOJ brings charges, it will get dismissed just like with Letitia James blatant fraud.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 04:48 PM (zjgNU)

56 How about arresting and deporting this Somali scum too.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

Failed Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh teaches his fellow Somalis how to evade ICE.

He says people in his community are creating secret group chats to track ICE agents.

Hi @ICEgov

X video: https://bit.ly/4pxESRc

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:48 PM (P5BPp)

57
>>Ilhan "Omar" Nur committed immigration fraud twice.

She pretended to be part of the Omar family when she came over. But she wasn't.

---------------

Omar isn't even her name. That lie alone is enough to invalidate her citizenship.
Posted by: toby928(c)

================

These are the points that everyone seems to be missing right now. The brusband is overshadowing Ilhan's false identity crime, as people seem to think she married her brother so SHE could come to the US instead of vice versa. (Trump contributed to the confusion on this.)

Very few people seem to be aware as of yet that she isn't an Omar; she's a Nur. Ilhan herself is running around like a dervish fighting the brusband story and I think it's to keep people focused on that so they don't learn about that she's actually Ilhan Nur, not Ilhan Omar.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 04:48 PM (1N/bM)

58 I wonder if the deal with the Omar's was she had to be a concubine for a number of years.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 04:48 PM (n5tGW)

59
Illhan and her brother need to be publicly brought forward and proven that they committed immigration fraud. Provide all the evidence, get DNA testing and confirm it. Then they need to be publicly dropped off back in Somalia with bags of their own money strapped to them.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 04:48 PM (IifOV)

60 Isn't brother fucking still illegal?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 04:48 PM (HuBpl)

61 48 Non-citizens can't be Congressmen."

Nor Presidents LOL!

Posted by: The Kenyan at December 11, 2025 04:49 PM (qUkBO)

62 I guess she forgot the "homo" one.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Big Homo will not be mocked.

Even Zombie John Holmes got the message.

Eventually.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 11, 2025 04:49 PM (cYBz/)

63
I was going to change my "Nothing Will Happen" sock, but maybe I should keep it for a while.

--Blonde Morticia

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 04:49 PM (1N/bM)

64 I believe she was in the Twilight movies. She's mildly attractive in a Goth sort of way.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM

I always confuse her with Thora Birch.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 04:49 PM (jc0TO)

65 You know what the last 4 weeks has been like? Like the Democrats are emboldened again and think it's 2021.

They're bringing all their Failed Bullshit back out of the trash heap like it's in style again.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (rnXZH)

Thye may have found an alternate source of funding from USAID and the NGOs to remount the campaigns.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 04:49 PM (rbvCR)

66 Failed Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh teaches his fellow Somalis how to evade ICE.

He says people in his community are creating secret group chats to track ICE agents.
-----

Somalis are too lazy for such an app to succeed, unless they're hiring white church ladies to do the work.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 04:50 PM (TN0g+)

67 >>anyone ever hear of someone named "kristin stewart?" I think she's a hollywood celery.

>Anyways, she blames Hollywoods failures on, get this, "capitalism," and "racism." [checks notes] Oh, wait, she's not done. She also blames "misogyny."

She is on the wrong side of The Wall for anyone to care about her concerns.

Posted by: garrett

Isn't she that "actress" that has one facial expression? No, not that one, the other one.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 04:50 PM (TMvtO)

68 Brusband, brotherfcker these are all novel insults. She has reached a new low for humanity. We should embrace the power of and, but truly marrying your brother is ick!!

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:51 PM (kwWDM)

69 Fraud is forever. There will never be statute of limitations on her fraudulently holding American citizenship.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at December 11, 2025 04:51 PM (s19xO)

70 >>I believe she was in the Twilight movies. She's mildly attractive in a Goth sort of way.

My bad. I thought it was one of the Hags from the Sex and the City cast.

Apparently this one is 35.
So, The Wall is merely imminent and some might be willing to pretend to care about her concerns.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 04:51 PM (IaZ7c)

71 Did anyone notice the scope of the trucking company that Cinealoa bought? 400 drivers. 89 arrested. Billions of dollars. 40% of interstate drug trafficking.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 04:51 PM (HuBpl)

72 Somalis are too lazy for such an app to succeed, unless they're hiring white church ladies to do the work.
Posted by: Crusader

Catholic Charities is right here you know!

(Not all of the chapters but many)

Posted by: Tonypete at December 11, 2025 04:51 PM (cYBz/)

73 I’m used to how normal companies work. HR handles things very effectively. Government is useless at normal things but excels at taxing and spending money.

Posted by: High tech at December 11, 2025 04:51 PM (37cEZ)

74
Give Nur the heave-ho!!!

Her bro too.

And anyone vaguely involved with her.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 04:51 PM (iJfKG)

75 She's her own grandma.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 04:52 PM (pkeXY)

76 Believe it when I see it.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 11, 2025 04:52 PM (OUMaO)

77 Omar Fateh is NOT from Somalia.

Personal details
Born
Omar Mahmood Fateh
April 19, 1990 (age 35)
Washington, D.C., U.S.

Fateh was born in Washington, D.C., to immigrant parents from Somalia. He graduated from Falls Church High School and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from George Mason University. Fateh spent summer breaks in Minneapolis as a child. He moved to Minneapolis in 2015.

Posted by: From the Wiki at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (3rtaB)

78 it's a custom in her particular village in Somalia

Custom, bwana.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (Kt19C)

79
Provide all the evidence, get DNA testing and confirm it.

Posted by: Frank Barone

=============

DNA testing has already confirmed it. They got a cigarette butt in London or something, no kidding.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (1N/bM)

80 Big Homo will not be mocked.

Even Zombie John Holmes got the message.

Eventually.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 11, 2025 04:49 PM (cYBz/)

And AIDS. Mostly AIDS.

Posted by: Tom Bombadil's Swollen Phallus at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (ue6pG)

81 >>Very few people seem to be aware as of yet that she isn't an Omar; she's a Nur.

*Gabby Johnson Nods*

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (IaZ7c)

82 "The statute of limitation became an issue in the last four years when this was first brought up."

What possible statue of limitations when the violation of the law is ongoing?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (a+4eV)

83 Commiting the fraud that americans wont.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (HuBpl)

84
New Supergirl trailer.

You say you want an alcoholic Supergirl hitting rock-bottom,

Well then, pally! Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZp5VTrBMng

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

85 Ilhan could be stripped of her citizenship and still be elected by her Somali voters. The only solution is to deport.

Posted by: Decaf at December 11, 2025 04:54 PM (1RAfh)

86 She's her own grandma.
==
Auntie Grandma its me!!

Posted by: Uncle Grandpa at December 11, 2025 04:54 PM (kwWDM)

87 Meanwhile, Fed Judge who is NOT an immigration Judge orders the release of Illegal Alien Abrego...

Even with perfectly legal Expulsion Orders, multiple of them, on the books... and also ignoring the other Federal Charges against him for Human trafficking.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 11, 2025 04:54 PM (mP0Kj)

88 She gets on my Nurves

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 04:54 PM (BBMJX)

89 'Married her brother', many of them are now saying it, saying it often. They are saying it often enough for it to seep into the middlings conscious mind.

Can you say it five times?

Brother fucker,
Brother fucker,
Brother fucker,
Brother fucker,
Brother fucker

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 04:55 PM (xgeFZ)

90 And anyone vaguely involved with her.
Posted by: naturalfake

Doesn't she have a white, American-born lover?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

91 Anyways, she blames Hollywoods failures on, get this, "capitalism," and "racism." [checks notes] Oh, wait, she's not done. She also blames "misogyny."
Posted by: Soothsayer
--

I guess she'll be giving back all the money she made then.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 04:56 PM (1Nv0l)

92 (She would later claim that it's a custom in her particular village in Somalia to call people who aren't your father "father" out of respect. No one else has ever heard of this "custom.")

If she married her brother, maybe she had more than one "father"...

"You American have Four Fathers, why can't I?"-- Ilhan Omar

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 04:56 PM (ynpvh)

93 Bestiality.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 04:56 PM (HuBpl)

94 Yup, that's why I call her Ilhan Nur. Also "BroFo."

Posted by: pookysgirl is glad she doesn't live in Mih-ni-sohta at December 11, 2025 04:56 PM (Wt5PA)

95 She gets on my Nurves
Posted by: Doof

*golf clap*

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:56 PM (77rzZ)

96 She'll play the race card, the bigot card, the xenophobe card, the islamophobia card and the sexism card. A virtual straight flush of intersection victimhood. She ain't going anywhere.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 04:56 PM (NgqoH)

97 I'm willing to believe George Santos is a nasty person who did bad things, but no way in hell is he as bad as Omar. That Congressional Republicans will tolerate her and not him is infuriating.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (GD2xa)

Exactly. Goodie two shoes Republicans. My level of disdain and actual hatred for them is only made worse knowing that I have to fucking vote for them because the alternative - not voting, or voting for a Dem - is worse.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 04:56 PM (F4p3X)

98 Somalis are too lazy for such an app to succeed, unless they're hiring white church ladies to do the work.
Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 04:50 PM (TN0g+)

I find it amazing that all these sub average IQ Somalis, somehow took States for BILLIONS worth of fraud... and most have gotten away with it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 11, 2025 04:57 PM (mP0Kj)

99 Posted by: pookysgirl is glad she doesn't live in Mih-ni-sohta at December 11, 2025 04:56 PM (Wt5PA)

How are you doing? Great to hear about your bun in the oven.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

100 89 'Married her brother', many of them are now saying it, saying it often. They are saying it often enough for it to seep into the middlings conscious mind.

Can you say it five times?

Brother fucker,
Brother fucker,
Brother fucker,
Brother fucker,
Brother fucker

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 04:55 PM (xgeFZ)

Does Ilhan appear if I do that at midnight while looking in a mirror?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 04:57 PM (ynpvh)

101 Article 1 Section 2

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

102 Almost time for me to take the furry thugs' chow out of the fridge and wash out their bowls. And if I'm going to my pipe club meeting tonight -- and I am strangely unmotivated to do that -- I need to eat something myself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:57 PM (wzUl9)

103 Go out into the country. Do you see a lack of retards?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 04:57 PM (HuBpl)

104 >>She's part of the Nur family, and never had legal permission to come.

Her father is Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed. There's a reason she doesn't want anyone looking into who he is.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 04:58 PM (viF8m)

105 85 Ilhan could be stripped of her citizenship and still be elected by her Somali voters. The only solution is to deport.
Posted by: Decaf
---------

Bet at least half of them are here illegally.
The other half have committed crimes worthy of deportation.
And the other half can go with them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 04:58 PM (xgeFZ)

106 There is one problem with this. No member of our Nomenklatura class, especially Democrats and Leftists, are ever held to the law the way anyone else would be. Either the case will not be taken up, a leftist judge will kill it, or something else will happen to prevent anything from interfering with her abuse of power.

Subotai Bahadur

Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at December 11, 2025 04:58 PM (BL9+a)

107 And anyone vaguely involved with her.
Posted by: naturalfake

Doesn't she have a white, American-born lover?
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

Dunno. But, revoke his citizenship!!!

He's probably now got Somali Cooties and is now a public health menace!

*I guess I should denounce myself....

FIIIIIIIIIIIINE.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 04:58 PM (iJfKG)

108 She would later claim that it's a custom in her particular village in Somalia to call people who aren't your father "father" out of respect. No one else has ever heard of this "custom."

Other customs include piracy and incest. She is just sharing her culture with the unenlightened of the West.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 04:58 PM (TMvtO)

109 A virtual straight flush of intersection victimhood.
Posted by: Heavy Meta
----

You can't have a straight flush of intersectional victimhood. Has to be a gay flush.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 04:59 PM (1Nv0l)

110 You should check out the map of "Somali clans" (on the page of the same name) on Wikipedia. It's wild.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)

111
I look forward to Congresscreature Nur, or Omar, or Bullshit, or whatever, raging and foaming at the mouth in a public setting, and tearing herself in two
like Rumplestiltskin as the investigation closes in.

Bonus: Her brother and fake father are going to get it too.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 04:59 PM (azNOR)

112 99 Posted by: pookysgirl is glad she doesn't live in Mih-ni-sohta at December 11, 2025 04:56 PM (Wt5PA)

How are you doing? Great to hear about your bun in the oven.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

bun in the oven...

Reminds me. My wife loved the Pillsbury Doughboy. One day I asked her, "What's the Pillsbury Doughboy made of? Dough, right? Well, doesn't that mean the Pilsbury Doughboy has dough for brains?"
She didn't talk to me for a while...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

113 You sexy brorher fucker.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 04:59 PM (HuBpl)

114 She'll play the race card, the bigot card, the xenophobe card, the islamophobia card and the sexism card. A virtual straight flush of intersection victimhood. She ain't going anywhere.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025

***
Trump can ignore all five. They don't have the force of law; the law she is breaking does.

Whether he will ignore them remains to be seen. At least he is talking about it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:59 PM (wzUl9)

115 Lowest gas prices in country are in OK $2.50
1 year ago they were higher $2.52
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 11, 2025

***
Bull. I see $2.12-2.19 here in LA now and $2.29 is frequent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:45 PM

$2.14 this morning at Sams in Sherman Texas.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 05:00 PM (0N4FZ)

116 New Supergirl trailer.

You say you want an alcoholic Supergirl hitting rock-bottom,

Well then, pally! Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZp5VTrBMng
----

That looks...*terrible*.

IF it had to be *terrible*, could the chick have some redeeming qualities, like being pretty, and likable? I wouldn't have picked that girl up at a strip club, even if she had a Supergirl outfit. The alcoholic bit is a turnoff as well. Gunn had the sense to write Superman as struggling with what to do with his powers, whether for good or otherwise, but at least Superman wasn't shooting up or snorting lines of coke.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 05:00 PM (TN0g+)

117 We'll never get rid of this boil. We can't even get that Garcia criminal kicked out.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 05:00 PM (qBdHI)

118 She committed fraud, but can her naturalization status be revoked? Huge question.

Posted by: Indy Bill at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM (NL+VW)

119 There is one problem with this. No member of our Nomenklatura class, especially Democrats and Leftists, are ever held to the law the way anyone else would be. Either the case will not be taken up, a leftist judge will kill it, or something else will happen to prevent anything from interfering with her abuse of power.

Subotai Bahadur

Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at December 11, 2025 04:58 PM (BL9+a)

That to me is the very definition of tyranny. And half this country is okey doke with it.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM (F4p3X)

120 The trailer for Supergirl uses the song ""Call Me" which Blondie released in1980.

That was 45 years ago.

Why are we listening to 45 year old music?

Posted by: I gotta ask at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM (3rtaB)

121
You say you want an alcoholic Supergirl hitting rock-bottom,

Well then, pally! Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZp5VTrBMng

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

I'll miss that one. Really, really tired of girl bosses.

Posted by: moki at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM (wLjpr)

122 She committed fraud, but can her naturalization status be revoked? Huge question.
Posted by: Indy Bill at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM

Can? Absolutely. Will remains to be seen.

If she gets deported to Somalia she might be the most eligible woman there.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 05:02 PM (jc0TO)

123 How are you doing? Great to hear about your bun in the oven.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

I've been getting pretty tired, which is normal. Pooky has been taking care of Lil Pooky a lot more than usual so Mommy can nap.

Posted by: pookysgirl, with first trimester woes at December 11, 2025 05:03 PM (Wt5PA)

124 The trailer for Supergirl uses the song ""Call Me" which Blondie released in1980.

That was 45 years ago.

Why are we listening to 45 year old music?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM

It's the new wave!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 05:03 PM (jc0TO)

125 The deal is; fly them out of the country overnight (you know, the way O'Biden flew them in) to Somali.
Then let the judges go through the courts to prove they should be allowed back in. One by one.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 05:03 PM (xgeFZ)

126 The trailer for Supergirl uses the song ""Call Me" which Blondie released in1980.

That was 45 years ago.

Why are we listening to 45 year old music?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Because, Blondie. Debby Harry. Yum, back in the day.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:03 PM (77rzZ)

127 In fairness, I think of Yes and The Eagles as some of the new bands.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 05:03 PM (jc0TO)

128 That to me is the very definition of tyranny. And half this country is okey doke with it.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM (F4p3X)

And case in point I just heard on the news that another jury has refused to indict Letitia James. This is the second time. There literally are parts of this country that are completely lost.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 05:04 PM (F4p3X)

129 Still not tired of winning!

Posted by: Texican ette at December 11, 2025 05:04 PM (SNf74)

130 New Supergirl trailer.

You say you want an alcoholic Supergirl hitting rock-bottom,

Well then, pally! Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZp5VTrBMng

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

It’s the actress from House of Dragons.
Milly Alcock. Big blonde eyebrows.

Thought she looked familiar, had to look up who she is.

The movie looks rather bleak.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 05:04 PM (6ydKt)

131 It would be fantastic to see her deported

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 05:04 PM (Ia/+0)

132 Current music completely sucks

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 05:05 PM (uQzkA)

133
That's all james gunn has in his bag o' tricks -- old Top 40 pop songs.

FUCKING GOOFBALL.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 05:05 PM (rnXZH)

134 And case in point I just heard on the news that another jury has refused to indict Letitia James. This is the second time. There literally are parts of this country that are completely lost.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 05:04 PM

Sound like some IRS audits for the grand jurors are in order.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 05:05 PM (jc0TO)

135 If we currently have any sort of diplomatic relations with the shithole that is Somali... cease that shit now.

Then, deport all the Somali fuckers in MN (and elsewhere).

When the inevitable happens, and some judge says, nah don't do that, bring them home... shrug and say "sorry, no can do."

Make it a private funded effort and when the planes show up on radar... shoot 'em down. Claim ignorance of some privateer adventurism on invading the country.

Probably not as farfetched as some bullshit the previous administration pulled off.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 05:05 PM (NwnyJ)

136 Because, Blondie. Debby Harry. Yum, back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:03 PM (77rzZ)

I saw Blondie live at Armadillo World Headquarter long ago and far away.

And yes, she was very pretty and sexy and just plain fun onstage.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 05:05 PM (iJfKG)

137 Somalis are too lazy for such an app to succeed, unless they're hiring white church ladies to do the work.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 04:50 PM

Most Somalis and Third Worlders are stupid. But the ones in charge are creating stuff like these apps and also arranging sex trafficking gangs like this one in Europe.

This is enraging and depressing.

In 100 years, people looking back are going to realize that social media and smart phones brought down western civilization. The most powerful nations in the world with the most powerful militaries were powerless against Third Worlders using Western civilization technology and stupidity against them to conquer them.

They're Using Women as Bait

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4rQYykJ

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 05:05 PM (P5BPp)

138 *Great to hear about your bun in the oven.*

We know what causes that now.

Posted by: Doctors at December 11, 2025 05:05 PM (3rtaB)

139 Somali = Somalia

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 05:06 PM (NwnyJ)

140
If Guardians of the Galaxy was so good, why do I not care to rewatch it of watch the sequels?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 05:06 PM (rnXZH)

141 That looks...*terrible*.

IF it had to be *terrible*, could the chick have some redeeming qualities, like being pretty, and likable? I wouldn't have picked that girl up at a strip club, even if she had a Supergirl outfit. The alcoholic bit is a turnoff as well. Gunn had the sense to write Superman as struggling with what to do with his powers, whether for good or otherwise, but at least Superman wasn't shooting up or snorting lines of coke.
Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025

***
It looks dreary, like the movie Barfly w/ Nicholson and Dunaway years ago. Dim, yellowish lighting and an unattractive lead.

Is this the same actress who had a brief drunken walk-on at the end of the 2025 Superman film as Kara, Superman's cousin?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:06 PM (wzUl9)

142 Why are we listening to 45 year old music?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM (3rtaB)

Because unless you’re into rap or country, there isn’t much else to choose from.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 05:06 PM (6ydKt)

143 Well she has 30 million now, she can live well anywhere.

What I want is the 80% of somalians getting welfare to be shown the door since you are not supposed to be allowed to immigrate to this country unless you'll be able to support yourself and your family. Then we won't have to worry about them sending Ilhan version 2.0 to DC.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 11, 2025 05:06 PM (hhkIi)

144
Other customs include piracy and incest. She is just sharing her culture with the unenlightened of the West.
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Gotta love that vibrant diversity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 05:06 PM (pkeXY)

145 GA GOP: Ain't no cuck like a Georgia cuck!

IN GOP: Hold my wife's boyfriend's beer!

Posted by: i see tories at December 11, 2025 05:07 PM (qUkBO)

146 In fairness, I think of Yes and The Eagles as some of the new bands.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I know folks here like to dump on the Eagles, but I'll take them over Yes any day.

Can't stand Yes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

147 So, gay bro gets deported as well, right?

Sort of a two-fer Nur.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 11, 2025 05:07 PM (TezPK)

148
She may be here illegally, however an adult was the one who perpetrated the fraud.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

============

Same situation as the Dreamers and the other poor unfortunate souls who were brought here as minors and who are therefore "entitled" to stay.

They're not. They can blame their parents for their predicament -- amazingly, I saw a deportee admitting this on a video just the other day. It's not the obligation of the U.S. to compensate for parents' irresponsible, criminal acts.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:07 PM (1N/bM)

149 And case in point I just heard on the news that another jury has refused to indict Letitia James. This is the second time. There literally are parts of this country that are completely lost.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 05:04 PM

Sound like some IRS audits for the grand jurors are in order.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 05:05 PM (jc0TO)

These sub-retards don't seem to understand that this is precisely the kind of behavior that brings about the very thing they are ostensibly fighting against, i.e., authoritarian fascism.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 11, 2025 05:08 PM (F4p3X)

150 The trailer for Supergirl uses the song ""Call Me" which Blondie released in1980.

That was 45 years ago.

Why are we listening to 45 year old music?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 11, 2025

***
For an instant, watching the trailer, I had hopes the movie would be *set* in 1980. No such luck.

("Call Me" is exciting music; that's a good reason to listen to it.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:08 PM (wzUl9)

151 Boomer music wars begun, they have.

Posted by: Scaggs of Boz at December 11, 2025 05:08 PM (3rtaB)

152 Is this the same actress who had a brief drunken walk-on at the end of the 2025 Superman film as Kara, Superman's cousin?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:06 PM (wzUl9)

According to what I just read it’s the same actress.
I got about 20 minutes into the 2025 Superman before I stopped and meant to watch later but never did, so can’t confirm.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 05:09 PM (6ydKt)

153 Any possibility of clawing back most of that $30 mil she's sitting on. You know she has used nefarious means to obtain it.

It's the Somali way!

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 11, 2025 05:09 PM (TezPK)

154 146 In fairness, I think of Yes and The Eagles as some of the new bands.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I know folks here like to dump on the Eagles, but I'll take them over Yes any day.

Can't stand Yes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

Take it easy.

Posted by: don't say maybe at December 11, 2025 05:09 PM (ue6pG)

155 121
You say you want an alcoholic Supergirl hitting rock-bottom,

Well then, pally! Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZp5VTrBMng

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

I'll miss that one. Really, really tired of girl bosses.
Posted by: moki at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM (wLjpr)

Aside from being tedious it's just lazy writing. We have no ideas for character development so we'll just throw in a girlboss trope. Same thing with ghey characters. Can't come up with something interesting or engaging so they throw a ghey in there. No development, totally one-dimensional, but ghey!

Posted by: Lame boring worn out tropes are lame at December 11, 2025 05:09 PM (TbWk/)

156 So it's a movie thread?

Posted by: Just got here at December 11, 2025 05:09 PM (3rtaB)

157 Is TJM here? I have a Rome question.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:10 PM (77rzZ)

158 I hope she's punished in this life.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 11, 2025 05:10 PM (Io7m1)

159 Come stand at my corner.

Posted by: Winslow, Arizona at December 11, 2025 05:11 PM (3rtaB)

160 Can't stand Yes.
Posted by: Bulg

Strike Two!

Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 11, 2025 05:11 PM (oftw2)

161 Like the late smart black cat Marie-Antoinette, Stirling (who looks almost exactly like she did) has a little mealtime clock in his head. Almost exactly at 4 pm, a hour before dinner, he's in here pacing across the desk and bumping me with his head.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:11 PM (wzUl9)

162 Can't stand Yes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

Take it easy.
Posted by: don't say maybe

Just say royalties.

Posted by: Jackson Browne at December 11, 2025 05:12 PM (TezPK)

163 136 Because, Blondie. Debby Harry. Yum, back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:03 PM (77rzZ)

I saw Blondie live at Armadillo World Headquarter long ago and far away.

And yes, she was very pretty and sexy and just plain fun onstage.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025

I love Blondie, they were really good live and my favorite song was Dreaming, the drummer rocked that song.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2025 05:12 PM (dtf79)

164 DRAT!

"The Indiana Senate has rejected a proposed redistricting plan that aimed to give Republicans an advantage in congressional seats..."

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 05:12 PM (g47mK)

165 Why are we listening to 45 year old music?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM (3rtaB)

----------------

Because production of decent music ended on December 31st, 1989.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 11, 2025 05:12 PM (2UnvF)

166 Strike Two!
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste!

What was strike one?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:12 PM (77rzZ)

167 >>>I've been getting pretty tired, which is normal. Pooky has been taking care of Lil Pooky a lot more than usual so Mommy can nap.
Posted by: pookysgirl, with first trimester woes
---

May seem rough to you. I haven't been keeping up.
Last I heard, Pooky was in the hospital so, from over here, it looks a lot better. Glad you are catching a break.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 05:12 PM (xgeFZ)

168 Could you imagine the riots?

They left goes bonkers when an el Salvadoran child rapist was deported

HES BACK

There would be fbisinesses amd fires in every city with a population over 50

Posted by: Gonzotx at December 11, 2025 05:12 PM (nGraA)

169
Meanwhile, Fed Judge who is NOT an immigration Judge orders the release of Illegal Alien Abrego...

Even with perfectly legal Expulsion Orders, multiple of them, on the books... and also ignoring the other Federal Charges against him for Human trafficking.
Posted by: Romeo13

==============

WHY IS HE STILL HERE???

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:13 PM (1N/bM)

170 Like the late smart black cat Marie-Antoinette, Stirling (who looks almost exactly like she did) has a little mealtime clock in his head. Almost exactly at 4 pm, a hour before dinner, he's in here pacing across the desk and bumping me with his head.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:11 PM (wzUl9)
----
Jasmine is the same way.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 05:13 PM (ESVrU)

171 LauraW sighting at the end of the previous thread!

with a great post!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 05:13 PM (emBoF)

172
It would be fantastic to see her deported
Posted by: Skip

============

I can't even tell you how gratifying that would be to me. Not since Hillary Clinton's concession speech...

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:13 PM (1N/bM)

173 Watch a YT by Crime Chef. Eighty percent of the wacko protesters are white church women. Filthy Lutherans, in fact.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 11, 2025 05:13 PM (wBaIH)

174 New Supergirl trailer.

You say you want an alcoholic Supergirl hitting rock-bottom,

Well then, pally! Here you go:

You mean like Superman III when he got exposed to a weaker form of kryptonite? Where do they get these ideas? Will Zombie Richard Pryor be making a cameo?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 05:14 PM (TMvtO)

175
112

Reminds me. My wife loved the Pillsbury Doughboy. One day I asked her, "What's the Pillsbury Doughboy made of? Dough, right? Well, doesn't that mean the Pilsbury Doughboy has dough for brains?"
She didn't talk to me for a while...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

-----

In Somalia, they have the Nilsbury No-boy.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 05:14 PM (azNOR)

176 WHY IS HE STILL HERE???
Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:13 PM

Awaiting trial on trafficking charges, I believe.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 05:14 PM (jc0TO)

177 What was strike one?
Posted by: Bulg

Your myopic worship of K. U.

Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste at December 11, 2025 05:14 PM (oftw2)

178 LauraW sighting at the end of the previous thread!

with a great post!

==

Indeed!

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 05:14 PM (g47mK)

179 Is this the same actress who had a brief drunken walk-on at the end of the 2025 Superman film as Kara, Superman's cousin?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025
*
According to what I just read it’s the same actress.
I got about 20 minutes into the 2025 Superman before I stopped and meant to watch later but never did, so can’t confirm.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025

***
It is the same actress, Milly Alcock.

The walk-on was sort of cute, but it was a gag. It's no basis for an entire superhero movie. Pass.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:15 PM (wzUl9)

180 Drunk Super Girl is almost better than Nicole Arbour's Drunk with Batman

youtu.be/Gt1_TL-KTgc

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 05:15 PM (rbvCR)

181 Hey fellow Morons: I live in MN and grew up here.

PLEASE AMPLIFY THIS STORY AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.

These Somali's are a majority of criminals raping you of your tax money.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 11, 2025 05:15 PM (mNOhh)

182 LauraW sighting at the end of the previous thread!

with a great post!

==
Indeed!
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025

***
She brought up a good point for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:17 PM (wzUl9)

183 It is the same actress, Milly Alcock.

Krypton is not sending its best.
She's a tirebiter.

Posted by: Woof Woof at December 11, 2025 05:17 PM (ue6pG)

184 Deport her and her brother/husband, too!

Be gone ye scat of rat bastids!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 11, 2025 05:17 PM (WONhk)

185
Well she has 30 million now, she can live well anywhere.

Posted by: PaleRider

=============

As I understand it, she got suddenly rich when she married that white American. He's the one with the money. If she (please God) got deported it would be very interesting to see if Mr. 'Til Death Do Us Part goes with her or even stays married. Failing deportation (see handle), would he stay with her if she got some sort of legal handling that got her kicked out of Congress?

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:17 PM (1N/bM)

186 Your myopic worship of K. U.
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste

I don't give a damn how Kentucky University does in the NCAA.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:17 PM (77rzZ)

187 151 I hate Omar-Nur, but not nearly as much as I hate one-named corporate band Journey!!!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 11, 2025 05:18 PM (wBaIH)

188 If I wanted to see drunk attractive ‘pick me’ girls stumbling around, I’d go to any bar or club. I wouldn’t go see Supergirl.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 11, 2025 05:18 PM (zc/H+)

189 Who would claim to be from Somalia if they weren't? Is there someplace worse?
Posted by: Archimedes

Ahem

Posted by: Yemen at December 11, 2025 05:19 PM (N7hqt)

190
Deport her and her brother/husband, too!

Be gone ye scat of rat bastids!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

==============

I'm pretty sure the brusband lives in London, where he's known to be a part of the floridly gay scene. In fact, I think getting him out of there was one of the reasons for the "marriage." This may shock you, but those African tribalists actually don't like fags.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:19 PM (1N/bM)

191 "Non-citizens can't be Congressmen."

So, question - does this mean that she never was a member of Congress? Are there any bills she voted on that passed by one vote? That may be something the courts don't want to touch.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 11, 2025 05:19 PM (Vpqw1)

192 The US has seized the Skipper.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:20 PM (HuBpl)

193 Who would claim to be from Somalia if they weren't? Is there someplace worse?
Posted by: Archimedes

Ahem
Posted by: Yemen

Step off, Bitch! This is my corner!
-- Haiti

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

194 >> The US has seized the Skipper.

Does that mean the castaways will finally get off the island?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 05:21 PM (w6EFb)

195 Case dismissed. The United States has no standing to object to anyone's citizenship.

Posted by: Judge Boasberg Brown Jackson at December 11, 2025 05:21 PM (wGerL)

196 The US has seized the Skipper.
Posted by: Boss Moss

It's OK. Mr. Howell has bail money.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:21 PM (77rzZ)

197 I don't give a damn how Kentucky University does in the NCAA.
Posted by: Bulg

Ever been pounced by a Wildcat?

Posted by: Top Cat and Benny at December 11, 2025 05:21 PM (oftw2)

198 The US has seized the Skipper.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Gilligan!!

Posted by: Jonas Grumby at December 11, 2025 05:22 PM (TMvtO)

199 Who would claim to be from Somalia if they weren't? Is there someplace worse?
Posted by: Archimedes

Ahem
Posted by: Yemen

Step off, Bitch! This is my corner!
-- Haiti
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)
——

‘Bitch, please!’

— Bog of Eternal Stench

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 11, 2025 05:22 PM (zc/H+)

200 The Skipper is the name of the Venezuelan tanker.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:23 PM (HuBpl)

201 The Indiana Senate has rejected a proposed redistricting plan that aimed to give Republicans an advantage in congressional seats..."

RINOs everywhere

Willing to kill us all

Posted by: Gonzotx at December 11, 2025 05:23 PM (nGraA)

202

Mississippi Democrat Congressman Bennie Thompson has called the ambush-style attack in Washington, D.C. in November on two West Virginia National Guardsmen an “unfortunate accident.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 05:23 PM (pkeXY)

203
I'm pretty sure the brusband lives in London--

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen

================

UPDATE!
>>Ilhan Omar’s second husband calls himself a “dirty dandy” on social media and has run off to South Africa, dodging President Trump’s accusations that he is her brother.

This just in from the NY Post. This story is running fast, and Ilhan is really going to have to work to stay on top of it. I won't be surprised if she disappears on a plane loaded with cash and jewels.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:23 PM (1N/bM)

204 >>EricLDaugh
·
21s
>>🚨 BREAKING: Black Lives Matter Executive Director charged with WIRE FRAUD and MONEY LAUNDERING in Oklahoma, FBI Director Kash Patel says

>>"An executive director with Black Lives Matter allegedly used her position to steal donor money and enrich herself."

>>ACCOUNTABILITY IS HERE.

>>She's accused of transferring over $2 MILLION into her personal accounts after the George Floyd fundraising

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 05:23 PM (viF8m)

205 > Ilhan Omar’s second husband calls himself a “dirty dandy” on social media

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 05:24 PM (Yp6az)

206 The Skipper is the name of the Venezuelan tanker.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:23 PM (HuBpl)

EFE news service is claiming that it is false flagged and has changed its name a couple of times.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 05:24 PM (rbvCR)

207 >>She's accused of transferring over $2 MILLION into her personal accounts after the George Floyd fundraising
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 05:23 PM (viF8m)

Well, you know, nobody else was using it....

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 05:25 PM (6Bc88)

208 EFE news service is claiming that it is false flagged and has changed its name a couple of times.
Posted by: Kindltot

Kinda on-brand for the subject of this post as well.

Posted by: Jackson Browne at December 11, 2025 05:25 PM (TezPK)

209 The Skipper is the name of the Venezuelan tanker.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:23 PM (HuBpl)

EFE news service is claiming that it is false flagged and has changed its name a couple of times.
Posted by: Kindltot

Other names include "Little Buddy," and "Ginger or Maryanne.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 05:26 PM (77rzZ)

210 What happens in societies where serious crimes get exposed, expectations are ser that justice will be served, but after all the sound and fury, nothing happens? And the cycle is repeated over and over again. And half the country is perfectly fine with it because they don't believe it, it's not serious like what the other side does, or it doesn't matter how bad it is as long as their side wins. And the other side is demoralized. Very corrosive.

I wonder if it would have been better to keep crimes out of the public eye and use it as blackmail material.

Wait, maybe the Dems have already figured this out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 05:26 PM (Dv3i1)

211 >>🚨 BREAKING: Black Lives Matter Executive Director charged with WIRE FRAUD and MONEY LAUNDERING in Oklahoma, FBI Director Kash Patel says

The IN OKLAHOMA is what should be in caps. We need to fill the federal courts in the Plains and the South. No more D.C. or N.Y.C. juries.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 11, 2025 05:26 PM (wGerL)

212 Drunk Super Girl is almost better than Nicole Arbour's Drunk with Batman

youtu.be/Gt1_TL-KTgc
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025

***
On the other hand, wasn't there a plotline in the Marvel Comics long ago with Iron Man being an alcoholic and finding he could not do his job? I only have some dim memory at glancing at one comic page and being told the story. Maybe late '70s. No idea if it was Tony Stark, or someone else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:26 PM (wzUl9)

213 *The US has seized the Skipper*

I'd better make some sandwiches.

Posted by: Mary Ann at December 11, 2025 05:27 PM (3rtaB)

214 Am I too late for the nothing will happen comment?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 05:27 PM (9iyS+)

215 200 The Skipper is the name of the Venezuelan tanker.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Should have let the joke go on longer😉 They were having fun with Gillian's Island.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 05:27 PM (PFs9e)

216 The Venezuelan tanker also has no insurance.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:27 PM (HuBpl)

217 Just saw a headline that 81% of Somali households are government funded in MN.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 05:27 PM (n5tGW)

218 The Venezuelan tanker also has no insurance.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Asset Forfeiture time!

Posted by: The Cost Guard- yes it's spelled that way at December 11, 2025 05:28 PM (TezPK)

219 Is there anyone connected with the BLM organization that wasn't running a big con game for themselves?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 05:28 PM (PFs9e)

220 Only 19% are engineers and scientists?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:28 PM (HuBpl)

221 *The US has seized the Skipper*

I'd better make some sandwiches.
Posted by: Mary Ann

I'll arrange the conjugal visits.

Posted by: Ginger at December 11, 2025 05:28 PM (TMvtO)

222
By the way, her daughter is some scrunt who got suspended from Barnard for some anti-Israel encampment action at Columbia. Lost her dorm and meal privileges and of course whined on social media about it.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:29 PM (1N/bM)

223 214 Am I too late for the nothing will happen comment?

Missed it by 210 comments.

Posted by: THAT much! at December 11, 2025 05:29 PM (3rtaB)

224 Maryland Man, A bona fide MS13 gang banger with arrests for trafficking isn’t getting deported. Does anyone really think a member of Congress will be? Yeah, no.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 05:29 PM (9iyS+)

225 As for Supergirl being shown in the trailer wearing civilian clothes: I loved it when Chris Claremont and John Byrne had the X-Men wearing everyday clothes a good part of the time. In the Hellfire Club business, for instance, Scott and Jean, following up a lead, visit a dance club in a skeezy part of town wearing regular clothing. Grownup clothes, though, not this punk wannabe outfit Kara is shown wearing in this trailer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:29 PM (wzUl9)

226 Just saw a headline that 81% of Somali households are government funded in MN.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

And it's 85% for Assghans.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 11, 2025 05:30 PM (TezPK)

227 Are we sure she is even from Somalia? It sounds as if she will lie about anything and everything, so maybe start checking ALL of her claims.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I think she is the Professor Quirrell of Congress. Unwrap that red turban and you will find the wizened head of He Who Shall not Be Named.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 11, 2025 05:30 PM (rhY8p)

228
How long does it take to 'review a file' and why isn't it done already?
Posted by: davidt

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Good question. Do you have to replicate the entire investigation as if it was a lab experiment?

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:30 PM (1N/bM)

229 She should be deported for being an anti-American idiotic scrunt, but the fraud thing will work, too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 05:31 PM (6Bc88)

230
Am I too late for the nothing will happen comment?

Missed it by 210 comments.
Posted by: THAT much!

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I hope to be FIRST in every thread from now on.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:31 PM (1N/bM)

231 Many Afghans on the dole work under the table as cabbies.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:31 PM (HuBpl)

232 You think foreign ships have insurance when foreign drivers don't?

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 05:32 PM (Ia/+0)

233 Many Afghans on the dole work under the table as cabbies.
Posted by: Boss Moss

No cancer researchers?

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 11, 2025 05:32 PM (TezPK)

234 Abrego Garcia released from ICE detention.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 11, 2025 05:33 PM (NFX2v)

235 They can house ships without insurance.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:33 PM (HuBpl)

236 I've done some of my best work under the table.

Posted by: Old Lady Enhoff at December 11, 2025 05:33 PM (3rtaB)

237 >>Many Afghans on the dole work under the table as cabbies.

Nur's father was briefly a cabbie when they first immigrated here.

It really surprises me some conservative reporter hasn't looked into her real background.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 05:34 PM (viF8m)

238 Wake me up when Ilhan gets deported.

Posted by: Dozer at December 11, 2025 05:34 PM (TezPK)

239 Abrego Garcia released from ICE detention.

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arrest him for tax fraud and be done with it

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 05:34 PM (g47mK)

240 234 Abrego Garcia released from ICE detention.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 11, 2025 05:33 PM (NFX2v)

Always comes down to the “ Who Runs Bartertown” conundrum.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 05:34 PM (pDt9x)

241 Just saw a headline that 81% of Somali households are government funded in MN.
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Democrats are paying them to vote for them with our money. Pretty ballsy for a party that has no testosterone.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 05:34 PM (Dv3i1)

242 232 You think foreign ships have insurance when foreign drivers don't?
Posted by: Skip

Nonsense. The ship was fully insured by us. Insurance by handshake. No boring, messy, forms.

Posted by: Lloyd's of Lubbock at December 11, 2025 05:34 PM (oftw2)

243 Indiana voted to not redistrict.. Way to go Indiana...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 05:36 PM (VE6XX)

244 To get it back someone will have to show up in a US court. Doubtfull.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:36 PM (HuBpl)

245 Abrego Garcia released from ICE detention.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

From which floor?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 05:36 PM (TMvtO)

246 On the other hand, wasn't there a plotline in the Marvel Comics long ago with Iron Man being an alcoholic and finding he could not do his job? I only have some dim memory at glancing at one comic page and being told the story. Maybe late '70s. No idea if it was Tony Stark, or someone else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yup, the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline. Not done for laughs.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 11, 2025 05:36 PM (OUMaO)

247 Question - Members of Congress can't be arrested on their way to Congress. Says so in the Constitution. Now, if Nur's election was void ab intio (never was good) can she use this as an excuse not to be arrested?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 11, 2025 05:37 PM (Vpqw1)

248 I need a drink.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 11, 2025 05:37 PM (HuBpl)

249 243 Indiana voted to not redistrict.. Way to go Indiana...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 05:36 PM (VE6XX)

In the interests of fairness and inclusivity, no doubt. They begat us Mike Pence, so should not be a surprise.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 05:37 PM (pDt9x)

250
EFE news service is claiming that it is false flagged and has changed its name a couple of times.
Posted by: Kindltot

Wouldn't want to dead name a ship.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 05:38 PM (pkeXY)

251 They're not gubmint funded households.
They're taxpayer funded households.

Posted by: Let me remind you at December 11, 2025 05:38 PM (3rtaB)

252 Indiana voted to not redistrict.. Way to go Indiana...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 05:36 PM

Again, IRS audits are in order.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 05:38 PM (jc0TO)

253 Indiana voted to not redistrict.. Way to go Indiana...
Posted by: It's me donna

Indiana: The Land of Milk and Toast

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 05:39 PM (TMvtO)

254 243 Indiana voted to not redistrict.. Way to go Indiana...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 05:36 PM (VE6XX)

Being in charge is haaarddd!

Posted by: GOPe at December 11, 2025 05:39 PM (/6GbT)

255 She is here illegally. Deport her.

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Black Crock Clown.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 05:40 PM (25a1J)

256 Miss Linda is down with a cold. As usual when she's sick, she doesn't eat but simply drinks water and coffee. No wonder her colds last as long as they do.

I'll try to get some solid chow into her tonight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:41 PM (wzUl9)

257 Indiana voted to not redistrict.. Way to go Indiana...
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Indiana has a senate of cucks.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 05:41 PM (TN0g+)

258 248 I need a drink.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Me too.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 11, 2025 05:41 PM (3rtaB)

259 I hate Omar-Nur, but not nearly as much as I hate one-named corporate band Journey!!!
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

They were good before they got Perryed.

https://youtu.be/z0v69bbzeec

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 05:41 PM (nhCoE)

260 Didn't an Indiana Moron tell us that their Senate is the holdout RINO grifters?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 05:42 PM (jc0TO)

261 190
Deport her and her brother/husband, too!

Be gone ye scat of rat bastids!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

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One Lockheed C-5 Galaxy can carry 270 passengers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 05:42 PM (xgeFZ)

262
More from the NY Post just now:

It was actually Elmi who needed help with emigrating to the US.

When Elmi blew into town in the late 2000s, the future congresswoman introduced him as her brother from London to members of the community, saying he needed “papers.”

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 05:43 PM (1N/bM)

263 Indiana voted to not redistrict.. Way to go Indiana...

Posted by: It's me donna

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"Miss us yet?"

/Eunuchs Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 11, 2025 05:43 PM (25a1J)

264 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:41 PM (wzUl9

You're a good guy. I hope she feels better soon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 05:43 PM (ix8EF)

265 On the other hand, wasn't there a plotline in the Marvel Comics long ago with Iron Man being an alcoholic and finding he could not do his job? I only have some dim memory at glancing at one comic page and being told the story. Maybe late '70s. No idea if it was Tony Stark, or someone else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Yup, the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline. Not done for laughs.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 11, 2025

***
That was groundbreaking in its time, I expect, like a lot of the things Marvel used to do. Having a superhero endure a serious personal crisis like that was unheard of in the old Silver Age DC days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:43 PM (wzUl9)

266 Big red conservative Indiana.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 05:44 PM (xgeFZ)

267 Illinois voted to not pay attention to the Federal government

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 05:44 PM (Ia/+0)

268 One Lockheed C-5 Galaxy can carry 270 passengers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 05:42 PM

I thought the passenger deck only carried 75 - 80?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (0sNs1)

269 "Yup, the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline. Not done for laughs."

The first we see of Tony Stark in the first Iron Man movie was his hand, holding an obvious alcoholic drink. I always thought that it was the director apologizing in advance for changing other aspects of Stark's story.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (Vpqw1)

270 Wolfus

Chicken soup.

Or, what works for me, Vietnamese Pho. With a ton of Siracha.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (CKPDL)

271 --------------

"Miss us yet?"

/Eunuchs Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence
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Never want to see you or your names again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (xgeFZ)

272 267 Illinois voted to not pay attention to the Federal government
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They have to keep that garbage scow of a state afloat until they get a friendlies in charge of the Fed govt. to bail them out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 05:46 PM (Dv3i1)

273 BTW, I was told by a paratrooper who helped jump qualify the C-5A that it's not a good aircraft to jump from.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 05:47 PM (0sNs1)

274 267 Illinois voted to not pay attention to the Federal government
Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 05:44 PM (Ia/+0)

Well, the Democratic Socialist People’s State of Illinois, so

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 05:47 PM (pDt9x)

275 Bull. I see $2.12-2.19 here in LA now and $2.29 is frequent.

That's per QUART!

Posted by: Gunslinger at December 11, 2025 05:47 PM (R2gO3)

276 Lowest gas prices in country are in OK $2.50
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paid 2.49 earlier this week.
Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (kwWDM)

And here in the People's Democratic Democracy of Washington State (Turd Fergusonville) prices are $3.99 for regular and $5.29 for diesel. Highest gas taxes in the country.

I freaking hate this overrated, moldy, mossy, wet, soggy, braindead state.

Posted by: Nunya Bizness at December 11, 2025 05:48 PM (7S15B)

277 I thought the passenger deck only carried 75 - 80?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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That's when it's set up for cargo.
More when it's air bus.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 05:48 PM (xgeFZ)

278 NOOD Maryland Man

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 05:49 PM (BBMJX)

279 I need a drink.
Posted by: Boss Moss

*illuminates Drinking Lamp*

Posted by: Miklos notes that it is Friday, after all at December 11, 2025 05:49 PM (N7hqt)

280 Ever been pounced by a Wildcat?
Posted by: Top Cat and Benny at December 11, 2025 05:21 PM

Yeah. It didn't go well for them

Posted by: Mitsubishi A6M pilot at December 11, 2025 05:49 PM (0sNs1)

281 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025
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You're a good guy. I hope she feels better soon.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025

***
Thanks, Fen. She has taken care of me more than once over the years, most recently after my minor surgery and earlier after I had some tooth extractions, so now it's my turn.

Getting her to eat is the problem. When she's healthy she's fine in that regard. But when she's sick it's another story. And getting meds like ibuprofen into her is like trying to pill a cat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:49 PM (wzUl9)

282 216 The Venezuelan tanker also has no insurance.
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The drug boats also, for similar reasons.

Posted by: Illegal Activity Exclusion at December 11, 2025 05:50 PM (qUkBO)

283 0 Wolfus

Chicken soup.

Or, what works for me, Vietnamese Pho. With a ton of Siracha.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025

***
She likes that sriracha stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 05:51 PM (wzUl9)

284 273 BTW, I was told by a paratrooper who helped jump qualify the C-5A that it's not a good aircraft to jump from.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Surprised they aren't sucked out post haste.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 05:51 PM (xgeFZ)

285 BTW, I was told by a paratrooper who helped jump qualify the C-5A that it's not a good aircraft to jump from.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 05:47 PM (0sNs1)

See, also, C-141.

Posted by: RI Red at December 11, 2025 05:51 PM (IKyq4)

286 Right, like they're really gonna deport BrotherFucker. When pigs fly.

Posted by: Uni-partier at December 11, 2025 05:52 PM (CWGlO)

287 >>BTW, I was told by a paratrooper who helped jump qualify the C-5A that it's not a good aircraft to jump from.

There are no good planes to jump from.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)

288 My FIL was a WWII 551st airborne survivor, RIP. We have his Nazi war trophies.

Posted by: Uni-partier at December 11, 2025 05:55 PM (CWGlO)

289 Teresa is out of surgery. Doctor decided against resection and instead installed a pump to deliver chemo directly to the liver.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 08:38 PM (PQ0Vo)

290 Stupid lady judge in MN did not let the case against Ilhan Nur start for her immigration fraud for some reason back around 2019 I think but cannot remember the issue. One investigator even snatched a used cigarette used by Omar and had it compared with sample from the brother in London (or Kenya)....it was a match.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at December 11, 2025 09:51 PM (LKMDZ)

The Atlantic Admits That the 100% Safe Covid Vaccine Killed Children (But Finds Room to Attack Vaccine Skeptics Anyway)

Steve Jobs' Widow's Vanity Magazine The Atlantic takes a "pox on both their houses" position on the covid vaccines: The "health authorities" and their I-Believe-In-Science allies are criticized for denying the undeniable, that the covid vaccines did cause myocarditis and death in children, particularly young boys.

But the article of course also criticizes those who correctly and honestly pointed out that the vaccine was dangerous for children, particularly young boys, because... well, because they're On the Other Side and it's very gauche of them to be right about The Science.

David Strom excerpted this yesterday.

On the Friday after Thanksgiving, Vinay Prasad, the FDA's top vaccine regulator, made a claim that shocked the public-health establishment. "For the first time," he wrote in a leaked email to his staff, "the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children." The agency had supposedly identified at least 10 children who died from getting COVID shots.
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To say the email was poorly received by vaccine experts and physicians would be an understatement. Prasad's claim provoked a rapid series of rebuttals. A response from 12 former FDA commissioners, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, called Prasad's memo "a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public health security." All of the potential vaccine-related deaths reported to the government, presumably including those to which Prasad referred, had already been reviewed by the agency's staff, the former commissioners wrote, and "different conclusions" had been reached. Elsewhere, doctors and scientists declared that absolutely no evidence links COVID-19 vaccines to death in children; and that in order to suggest otherwise, Prasad and his colleagues had engaged in an "evidence-manufacturing mission," a "dumpster dive" for shoddy data, or--worse--a campaign of lying.
...there's something troubling--and telling--in the fact that his memo has provoked people to deny even the possibility of COVID-vaccine-related deaths. The idea that mRNA-based shots have, tragically, killed a very small number of children is not far-fetched. It also doesn't imply a catastrophic threat to public health, given that tens of millions of doses of these vaccines have safely been given out to young people. From the start of the coronavirus pandemic, lack of nuance has been a problem with public-health messaging--one that anti-vaccine advocates have made use of to great effect. Now, in a moment when public health in America is under existential threat, this insistence that no evidence exists for vaccine-related deaths risks adding to the crisis.

But children did not need the "vaccines," meaning that the risks of mandating it to them -- and the deaths that then occurred -- were absolutely unnecessary.

No public-health authorities deny that COVID shots can have some ill effects. Adverse reactions are possible with all medical interventions. The mRNA-based vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna, in particular, are known to cause myocarditis--inflammation of the heart--on rare occasions, especially in teenage boys and young men. The form of myocarditis that occurs after vaccination is typically far less severe than the one caused by viruses; for unclear reasons, mRNA-related cases have largely disappeared in recent years. But this condition can be deadly, and considering the hundreds of millions of mRNA doses that have been administered to Americans, even extraordinarily unlikely outcomes may well be inevitable.

He doesn't want to lose his Leftwing Pinhead Membership Card, so he now pivots to attacking those who correctly said that children do not need the vaccine and in fact seem to be harmed by it:

The possibility--perhaps the likelihood--that a handful of vaccine-related deaths occurred and were downplayed by medical authorities does not undermine the fact that COVID vaccination, on the whole, has prevented death on a massive scale. Nor does it justify sweeping changes to vaccine regulations. Rather, it suggests the need for some targeted reforms, such as improvements to the country's vaccine-adverse-event reporting system--and also tells us that a strategy of minimizing tragic outcomes, however rare, may not be the best way to protect a vital instrument of public health.

Strom points out that this joker believes that RFKJr. is an "existential threat" to public health. Not the people who mandated that children take a vaccine that they did not need and which actually murdered a couple dozen of them, but the guy saying "Let's review the necessity and efficacy and safety of vaccines."

Strom mentions that once upon a time, he assumed the best of public health officials. Not any longer, of course.

I've written about this, but I'll mention it again: My own realization that public health officials consider it a badge of honor to blatantly lie to the pubic about public health -- to convince the uneducated to do what the educated want them to do, through any means necessary, including public disinformation campaigns -- came when I saw CNN's health correspondent Sanjay Gupta interview Obama's head of the CDC during the ebola outbreak.

During that outbreak, "The experts" decided to downplay the risk of the disease, instead of being hyper-alarmist. They did so because Obama had decided that the First Black President must never impose a temporary travel ban to any African country, even one in the midst of an ebola outbreak. So the marching orders went out to public health officials to convince the Uneducated Bigots of America that ebola was no big deal, really, You Racists.

Obama's CDC director claimed that ebola wasn't a danger for spreading because it could not be spread by "airborne transmission" but only by "direct contact." He said this specifically to allay fears of people on planes, trains, and buses that they could catch ebola from a fellow passenger.

Gupta asked, "So there's no risk if someone with ebola sneezes on another passenger? "

Obama's lying CDC directed reiterated that "ebola cannot be spread by airborne transmission," asserting that this statement answered the question.

But it didn't. Because we later learned that "airborne transmission" refers to disease-carrying bodies remaining in the air for hours and hours after the infected person has left the room. It refers to particles so light that they just "bounce" up and down in the air and don't sink to the ground for days.

But a sneeze is not considered "airborne transmission," even though it sounds like it should be, and even though Obama's CDC director insinuated that a sneeze would be a case of airborne transmission and ebola could not be spread by airborne transmission.

No, Gupta later told viewers in an update: A sneeze is considered direct contact with the infected person -- the spittle passes directly from them to anyone hit by the spray -- so yes, ebola is easily spread by a sneeze. And Obama's CDC director knew this, but he wanted to lie to the public, per Obama's wish to downplay the outbreak, so he told the world that ebola could not be passed via a sneeze.

It was a straight up lie. But he told it because the "experts" had decided that the value of keeping travel open to Africa outweighed Racist Americans' bigoted ideas about ebola being a killer disease that could literally liquify your internal organs, so "The Science" was changed to convince people of the political decision the "experts" had decided was best for them.

Earlier this year I started watching House, MD. The main character is an arrogant sociopath who routinely lies to patients about the risks or benefits of a course of treatment. He justifies this by noting that he went to medical school whereas most patients did not, and so he knows the right course of action and they simply don't. When told that this violates the law of informed consent, he snaps back that informed consent is a lie because informed consent is impossible for non-experts. So might as well lie to them or trick them into doing "the right thing," at least according to "the experts."

I mention that, of course, because it's not just a trait given to a fictional character on a TV show. There are a lot of people in medicine and particularly in the highly political field of government "public health" who share House's view on the impossibility of true informed consent and therefore the justification for simply lying to people to get them to do the "right" thing.

If you meet with a doctor, you're the client.

But you are not the client of "public health officials." The government, specifically the President or the state governor, is their client.

That's the person they are working for. You are just the rubes they're hustling to sell a product to.

Posted by: Ace at 03:27 PM

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Posted by: doug at December 11, 2025 03:26 PM (Hy+R4)

2 It's amazing the truth that can come out when it's not politically expedient to suppress it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

3 Strom mentions that once upon a time, he assumed the best of public health officials. Not any longer, of course.

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Are you not entertained by the credentials after their names anymore?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

4 Whatever happened to if it saves just ONE child....

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:28 PM (fexSQ)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 11, 2025 03:28 PM (5IH8V)

6 Bet a lot more fatalities than they will admit

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 03:29 PM (Ia/+0)

7 Can I Still Wear The Mask?

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and do gooder at December 11, 2025 03:30 PM (FGMmt)

8 7 Can I Still Wear The Mask?

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and do gooder at December 11, 2025 03:30 PM (FGMmt)

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Will you be...SMMMMMMOKIN?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

9 You have to break some eggs to fundamentally change America. Jeez. You all are rayciss!

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 03:31 PM (Wg6v7)

10 To admit that children were killed by a vaccine designed to protect them from the effects of a disease that was not terribly dangerous to them would undermine the whole purpose of having mandatory childhood vaccine schedules.

Admitting this is a limited hang-out.

Their real problem in defending this is that it appears that the spike protein and the various DNA contaminants in the Covid vaccine are oncogenic.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 03:31 PM (rbvCR)

11 Look. If you want to make an omelet...

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 03:31 PM (IaZ7c)

12 A virtually untested vaccine has deadly side-effects?

WELL, WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS!?!?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 03:31 PM (zjgNU)

13 Was the Obama Admin's interest in ebola really about African countries? Or was there something else? Like they needed patients to test on?

Point is I'm loathe to auto-believe the race excuses, as believable as they are, because Democrats hide a metric ton of horseshit behind race.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:31 PM (fexSQ)

14 12 A virtually untested vaccine has deadly side-effects?

WELL, WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS!?!?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 03:31 PM (zjgNU)

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It's the most perfect vaccine in the history of vaccines like 2020 was the most clean election in the history of elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

15 6 Bet a lot more fatalities than they will admit
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They ran this circus just like C. Everett Koop ran his - anyone that died, died of Tobacco.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 03:32 PM (Wg6v7)

16 It's spelled N-O-O-D spells Nood!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (A0sqA)

17 It's the most perfect vaccine in the history of vaccines like 2020 was the most clean election in the history of elections.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
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2020 might very well go down in history as the Year of the Big Lies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (ESVrU)

18 Can you ALL, please(!), just back off 6 feet?

For Grandma.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (IaZ7c)

19 Will you be...SMMMMMMOKIN?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

"if you stop smoking, and forcing second hand smoke on other people, and stop eating fatty food," they said, "cancer and heart attack rates will go down"

So we stopped smoking and ate heart-healthy, and cancer and heart attack rates have gone up.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (rbvCR)

20 17 It's the most perfect vaccine in the history of vaccines like 2020 was the most clean election in the history of elections.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
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2020 might very well go down in history as the Year of the Big Lies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (ESVrU)

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The Greater Truths we had to be told in order to save us from ourselves which didn't work anyway, but now it can be told.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

21 So wait. The vax killed more kids than the coof?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (A0sqA)

22 2 It's amazing the truth that can come out when it's not politically expedient to suppress it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

The truth ain’t nothin but the truth

Posted by: Black Flag at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (rQwsY)

23 18 Can you ALL, please(!), just back off 6 feet?

For Grandma.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (IaZ7c)

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Is Seattle Slough socking garrett?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

24 Strom points out that this joker believes that RFKJr. is an "existential threat" to public health. Not the people who mandated that children take a vaccine that they did not need and which actually murdered a couple dozen of them, but the guy saying "Let's review the necessity and efficacy and safety of vaccines."

One of the core things about the modern bureaucracy is there is never to be punishment for failure to achieve whatever the supposed goal of the bureaucracy is.

So pointing out that the NIH, CDC, and FDA all completely failed at COVID and expecting consequences is...wrong. In the old days of course the leadership of each would be fired and maybe proscuted.

But the only area the permanent bureaucracy wants consequences for is if people demand accountability like RFK is doing.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

25 "if you stop smoking, and forcing second hand smoke on other people, and stop eating fatty food," they said, "cancer and heart attack rates will go down"

So we stopped smoking and ate heart-healthy, and cancer and heart attack rates have gone up.
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Lard and tobacco are good things.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 03:34 PM (Wg6v7)

26 The Greater Truths we had to be told in order to save us from ourselves which didn't work anyway, but now it can be told.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

And now you know…the rest of the story.

Posted by: Paul Harvey at December 11, 2025 03:34 PM (rQwsY)

27 If you meet with a doctor, you're the client.

But you are not the client of "public health officials." The government, specifically the President or the state governor, is their client.

That's the person they are working for. You are just the rubes they're hustling to sell a product to.

Considering the level of groupthink and enforced conformity among physicians you aren't necessarily the client you think you are. There is at least an even chance you're on the ass end of "consensus" manufactured by those very same public health officials.

Posted by: but but but EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE at December 11, 2025 03:35 PM (TbWk/)

28 The possibility--perhaps the likelihood--that a handful of vaccine-related deaths occurred and were downplayed by medical authorities does not undermine the fact that COVID vaccination, on the whole, has prevented death on a massive scale.
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Not a fact. A criminal lie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 03:35 PM (A0sqA)

29 Or like how supposedly R's were "afraid" to fight Obama because they didn't want to be called racist. Except then suddenly they wouldn't attack Biden or Hillary. Or anyone. Because it was never about race. It was because they are filthy lying skunk jibjabber blorfle fecrunds. Sorry - I've run out of words to describe Republicans.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:35 PM (fexSQ)

30 This weekend Army /Navy game is on CBS ! (Go NAVY beat ARMY!) 2pm. Trump usually goes.

And so is :

"What would Erika Kirk say to Candace Owens, as she pushes conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's "Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life," @MrsErikaKirk sat down with CBS News Editor-in-Chief @bariweiss for an hour-long town hall. Watch it on Saturday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. ET, only on CBS."

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:35 PM (g47mK)

31 I had been skeptical of the "health experts" for a while, but the one that really got me was that BLM rioters were not a risk of being in groups because...reasons, but some dude surfing by himself in the ocean was an existential threat.

There were other things that made me eyeroll too, of course. Like you could get covid in a park in the full sunshine on a picnic with your family.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 03:35 PM (n5tGW)

32 >>A virtually untested vaccine has deadly side-effects?

>WELL, WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS!?!?

Sometimes Science is a lot more Art, than Science. Morty.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 03:35 PM (IaZ7c)

33 25 "if you stop smoking, and forcing second hand smoke on other people, and stop eating fatty food," they said, "cancer and heart attack rates will go down"

So we stopped smoking and ate heart-healthy, and cancer and heart attack rates have gone up.
---------------
Lard and tobacco are good things.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 03:34 PM (Wg6v7)

People who never touch lard or tobacco die.

We need to give up the never ending search for the Universal Rule Book. But that would mean admitting that we are individuals, and we can’t have that in this country.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)

34 The Atlantic. Ah, okay.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (Tbj3s)

35 Has anyone ever heard a drug warning from the Fake Vax?

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)

36 My own realization that public health officials consider it a badge of honor to blatantly lie to the pubic about public health

Mine was when Fauci and the gang decided to announce that a huge wave of heterosexual AIDS was about to sweep the country, to avoid "stigmatizing" homosexuals and injectable drug users, who constituted almost all the actual AIDS cases.

At a time when most AIDS cases were occurring in a couple of dozen urban neighborhoods with large quantities of homosexuals and IV drug users, instead of focusing on those neighborhoods, the Federal government was spending hundreds of millions of dollars telling normal high school students that they were at high risk of contracting AIDS.

Posted by: The Atlantic Magazine! at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (xTIDn)

37 Strom mentions that once upon a time, he assumed the best of public health officials. Not any longer, of course.

Fauci defunded and marginalized the big names that opposed him out of the gate. Most of the rest of the establishment noted that and either shut up or started helping him.

We note for many cops the job is "come home safely until I can get retirement" well the same is true for most government scientists and pretty much all government bureaucrats.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

38 It's really lucky that many of our congress critters are wholly owned subsidiaries of Big Pharma. Oh, wait ..
Well the propaganda ministries aren't mostly funded by Both g Pharm ad money. Oh , wait...
More than anything it's good that we have scientists and researchers that won't change their opinions for grants. Oh , wait...
FUBAR

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (D+mpw)

39 There are a lot of people in medicine and particularly in the highly political field of government "public health" who share House's view on the impossibility of true informed consent and therefore the justification for simply lying to people to get them to do the "right" thing.

Posted by: Ace at 03:27 PM

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” -CS Lewis

But what does some old white man know?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (zjgNU)

40 21 So wait. The vax killed more kids than the coof?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (A0sqA)

Only kids that were at extreme risk: Cancer, Diabetes, Immunosuppression, etc. should have been the only ones even considered for the jab, if at all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (ynpvh)

41 "House, MD"

My mom likes (or liked) that show, but I couldn't last more than one or two episodes. I wanted to punch the lead in the face and kick everyone else in the balls. If I wanted to watch a grundle of arrogant prick cocksuckers bloviate and suck their own dicks for an hour, I'd watch CNN.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

42 2 It's amazing the truth that can come out when it's not politically expedient to suppress it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

The truth is you never get the truth. It's always another lie. Sometimes it's just more believable or contains "more" truth. But it's always a lie.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (fexSQ)

43 >>> I had been skeptical of the "health experts" for a while, but the one that really got me was that BLM rioters were not a risk of being in groups because...reasons, but some dude surfing by himself in the ocean was an existential threat.

Again, a nakedly political decision having nothing to do with "science" but pushed by as "The Science (TM)."

Posted by: ace at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (1wjle)

44 Lard and tobacco are good things. now we re talking

Posted by: doug at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (Hy+R4)

45 30 This weekend Army /Navy game is on CBS ! (Go NAVY beat ARMY!) 2pm. Trump usually goes.

And so is :

"What would Erika Kirk say to Candace Owens, as she pushes conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's "Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life," @MrsErikaKirk sat down with CBS News Editor-in-Chief @bariweiss for an hour-long town hall. Watch it on Saturday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. ET, only on CBS."
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:35 PM (g47mK)

Go Navy, beat Army. (Because last I checked USAFA is out of it)

CinC Trophy on the line or nah?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (rQwsY)

46 >> Not a fact. A criminal lie.

They always see. Any "mainstream" journal that does publish bad things about the so-called Covid "vaccines" always has to chant that mantra. It's not true in the least, but they all have to say that to get published.

I look on the bright side, at least they are publishing this stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (w6EFb)

47 the answer to all this is to stay as healthy as you can! eat a balance meal , sleep 10 hours a day, no smoking or drinking to excess, exercise and breathe fresh air!

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK)

48 The possibility--perhaps the likelihood--that a handful of vaccine-related deaths occurred and were downplayed by medical authorities does not undermine the fact that COVID vaccination, on the whole, has prevented death on a massive scale.
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How is this a provable "fact?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (ESVrU)

49 Has anyone ever heard a drug warning from the Fake Vax?

I saw an ad for a new COVID vaccine that is supposedly a real vaccine. They say something like "This drug is for people that want protection from COVID but are worried about the side effects of the current COVID vaccines..."

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (sKqQm)

50 Most vaccine-caused deaths were never reported to VAERS.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (W7XSX)

51 >>>My mom likes (or liked) that show, but I couldn't last more than one or two episodes. I wanted to punch the lead in the face and kick everyone else in the balls. If I wanted to watch a grundle of arrogant prick cocksuckers bloviate and suck their own dicks for an hour, I'd watch CNN.

yes, absolutely, House is the worst part of House MD. He makes it almost unwatchable.

Posted by: ace at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (1wjle)

52 "They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (zjgNU)

Also, that may have been true in C.S. Lewis's time, but certainly not now.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 03:38 PM (zjgNU)

53 If they cop to 10 deaths there were probably 10,000.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 03:38 PM (A0sqA)

54 Hey back off the whole six feet thing, that was my favorite part.

It's only recently I've noticed all the damn mouthbreathers and homunculi out there sidling back in, too. Get your damn toes off my heels ya creeps, you ain't losing your spot in line by some arcane magic if the back of my neck isn't subjected to a constant stream of your hot gingival funk, you gross weirdos.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:38 PM (Vq1pX)

55 So wait. The vax killed more kids than the coof?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 03:33 PM (A0sqA)

You were unaware of this? Any moderately healthy young man could shrug off Covid. There was no reason for the shot. Girls are equally capable of shrugging it off, but they for some reason are less likely to get heart damage from the shot than young men.

The f___s killed children with the shot, and then got all proud of what they did for mankind and gave themselves fimt medals for their contributions.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 03:38 PM (rbvCR)

56 Whatever happened to if it saves just ONE child....
Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:28 P

You thought we were serious about that?

Posted by: My Cousin Lefty at December 11, 2025 03:39 PM (kgE5c)

57 I have always loved that CS Lewis quote, and it has some relevance to certain realities. But over the last 25 years it's become beyond evident that no one is in this for anyone's good but their own. Especially not the Left.

"Good" is always just the excuse for the next thing they want to steal.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:39 PM (fexSQ)

58
Ten children killed by Covid mRNA? I believe thousands, and the excess deaths will continue indefinitely. I wish it weren't true, but I can't reach a different conclusion. Every single thing the "experts" have told us about Covid has turned out to be a lie.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 03:39 PM (VWtfl)

59 yes, absolutely, House is the worst part of House MD. He makes it almost unwatchable.
Posted by: ace at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (1wjle)
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Dr. Cox from Scrubs is a more genuine (and entertaining) character than Dr. House.

Plenty of comedic sociopathy, but he also shows very human moments from time to time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 03:39 PM (ESVrU)

60 ***taptaptap***

is this thing on ...

Attention please:

THERE WAS NO VACCINE. IT WAS GENE THERAPY

Thank you for your attention to this matter

***drops mic***

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 11, 2025 03:39 PM (3sXRv)

61 and also tells us that a strategy of minimizing tragic outcomes, however rare, may not be the best way to protect a vital instrument of public health.

Now tell this to the "if it saves one child" gun-control advocates.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 03:39 PM (0sNs1)

62 Bonus style points for use of "grundle" as a collective noun.

*opera clap*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:40 PM (Vq1pX)

63 I mention that, of course, because it's not just a trait given to a fictional character on a TV show.
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No, that is the behavior of many "experts".

All you have to do is look at the cohorts in the vanguard of expert arrogance: judges. And then look at how many laws they are pulling out of their asses daily.

Posted by: Axeman at December 11, 2025 03:40 PM (krQz2)

64 I wandered across a thread last week where a woman had noted that the left wanted to imprison people for not taking the clot shot and to take their kids away.

There were three types of responses from leftwingers:

1) Quoting the effectiveness of other, non-COVID vaccines as if they were being discussed

2) Arguing no leftist anyway want to imprison people for refusing the clot shot or wanted to take their kids away

3) Arguing that we really should have imprisoned dissidents on the clot shot and taken their children away.

In fact it was common to see a type 2 response showing up right below a type 3 response...

And this is one of the games the left plays

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

65 There are a lot of people in medicine and particularly in the highly political field of government "public health" who share House's view on the impossibility of true informed consent and therefore the justification for simply lying to people to get them to do the "right" thing.
__________

Public health is supposed to be about protecting you from external threats. Banning smoking in public spaces is, at least arguably, a public health issue. Getting you to stop smoking is not a public health issue. They have no business sticking their nose into 90% of the issues that they go on about.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 03:40 PM (XvL8K)

66 CinC Trophy on the line or nah?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM

Yes.

BEAT NAVY!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 11, 2025 03:40 PM (kgE5c)

67 7 Can I Still Wear The Mask?
Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and do gooder at December 11, 2025 03:30 PM (FGMmt)

Who or what is stopping you?

I was at a B&N the other day and the cashier I bought the book from was wearing one.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 03:40 PM (rQwsY)

68 59 yes, absolutely, House is the worst part of House MD. He makes it almost unwatchable.
Posted by: ace at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (1wjle)
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Dr. Cox from Scrubs is a more genuine (and entertaining) character than Dr. House.

Plenty of comedic sociopathy, but he also shows very human moments from time to time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 03:39 PM (ESVrU)

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Especially when Rick O'Connell died!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

69 Posted by: ace at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (1wjle)

Why oh why did my "#Science" never catch on. Maybe I should have spelled it out? Hashtag Science? No that's not better. It's worse and I'm dumb.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:40 PM (fexSQ)

70 @45 sure ?

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (g47mK)

71 The f___s killed children with the shot, and then got all proud of what they did for mankind and gave themselves fimt medals for their contributions.
Posted by: Kindltot

Justice will come for them, eventually. Would be nice if some justice was meted out before 'eventually' though.

And a reminder that Justice does come for all of us, eventually.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (Dv3i1)

72 "Strom mentions that once upon a time, he assumed the best of public health officials."

Any belief that "public health experts" had anything but their own selfish interests in mind should have blown up no later than the 1980s AIDS "crisis."

I don't know which was worse, that period or during covid, for never-ending blatant lies and dangerous deception spewing from the mouths of "public health experts" like diarrhea spraying from Satan's asshole after he ate all the burritos at all Taco Bells in the country.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

73 I mean it isn't like they had to change the official definition of what a vaccine is to push this on the country or anything.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (0N4FZ)

74 the six foot distance rule - made up bullshit.

the mask rule - made up bullshit.

the covid vaccine is actually a vaccine - made up bullshit

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (n5tGW)

75 these days I only see people in retail wearing masks, which is understandable, lots of bug

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (g47mK)

76 yes, absolutely, House is the worst part of House MD. He makes it almost unwatchable.
Posted by: ace at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM

But without House, would it be House, M.D.?

Posted by: Philosomoron at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (0sNs1)

77 They ain't going to Heaven because they thought they were gods.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (W7XSX)

78 >Strom points out that this joker believes that RFKJr. is an "existential threat" to public health.

++++

RFKjr is an "existential threat" to the scam.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (Q+gd/)

79 the answer to all this is to stay as healthy as you can! eat a balance meal , sleep 10 hours a day, no smoking or drinking to excess, exercise and breathe fresh air!
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK)

Fresh air, when it's nine below zero, will fucking near kill you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 03:42 PM (npFr7)

80 I remember when the idea that COVID wasn't a danger to otherwise healthy kids starting getting traction the FNM desperately started looking for kids that had died from COVID and they found one.

They trumpeted his name and insinuated it was evil vaccine opponents that were to blame for his death.

And then someone found a picture of the kid. He was 11 years old I think and at least 300 lbs.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:42 PM (sKqQm)

81 Let's also mention that the regulatory agencies charged with promoting Good Public Health have almost entirely been captured by the moneyed interests in the heathcare industry, transforming the agencies into little more than government-sponsored Sales and Marketing teams for the shit the companies sell.

Posted by: Howard Johnson at December 11, 2025 03:42 PM (3BwY8)

82 does not undermine the fact that COVID vaccination, on the whole, has prevented death on a massive scale.
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Which didn't happen.

Before the Jab, COVID had a >99% survivability for people under 70. After the jab, the same group was the most susceptible, even after taking the Jab.

Posted by: Axeman at December 11, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)

83 Scrubs was a genius show. You'd go from laughing to crying in moments but never felt manipulated. Show had the right amounts of humor, tragedy, and pathos and always kept its heart.

Posted by: Peak TV at December 11, 2025 03:43 PM (TbWk/)

84
response from 12 former FDA commissioners, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, called Prasad's memo "a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public health security."

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Translation: "I must maintain this rigid position, or all will be lost."

Alternatively: "Been lying through my teeth for years. I'd be a fool to quit now."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 03:43 PM (VWtfl)

85 It's the most perfect vaccine in the history of vaccines like 2020 was the most clean election in the history of elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

Is it weird that all that stuff in 2020 needed hindsight to be seen clearly?

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:43 PM (fexSQ)

86 Another interesting part in this was the furry at RFK when he merely stopped recommending the clot shot.

Note he didn't ban it.

And yet lefties everywhere played pretend that they could no longer get the clot shot...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

87 85 It's the most perfect vaccine in the history of vaccines like 2020 was the most clean election in the history of elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

Is it weird that all that stuff in 2020 needed hindsight to be seen clearly?

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:43 PM (fexSQ)

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By whom, kemosabe?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

88 Justice will come for them, eventually. Would be nice if some justice was meted out before 'eventually' though.

And a reminder that Justice does come for all of us, eventually.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (Dv3i1)

Justice will be done ONLY if they are beaten to death with farm implements in a field. Anything less is merely garbage disposal. IMHO

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 03:44 PM (rbvCR)

89 I used to mistrust the word "public", just in general.

Then the word "health" became suspect too. What are you after? You clearly don't care about patient outcomes as such...

Now "expert" is a semantically empty vessel too, beyond indicating that you're definitely, without a doubt, being lied to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:44 PM (Vq1pX)

90 There is a recent French study making the rounds. It shows that the vaccine "resulted of lower all cause mortality" and even reduced things such as car accidents and ingrown toenails.

(I joke about toenails, but car accidents is a tell.)

The study is held as defnitive proof, but let me quickly show the flaw. The study looks at the entire French population and then separates out those who got a vaccine and those who didn't.

But it uses interaction with health care system as the mechanism to ID those cohorts. See the problem? The vaccinated group all went to Dr. to get vaccine, the unvaccinated group only count if they ... were sick and went to the Dr.

Anyway, let me get that out there if anyone is interested.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 03:44 PM (Pkr1Y)

91 Turns out it was Lupus.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 11, 2025 03:44 PM (L3gF5)

92 We need a soul vaccination. All across the nation.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:44 PM (fexSQ)

93 As Dr. Ryan Cole pointed out early on, if they suspected you died of the vaccine, no autopsy for you.

They intentionally buried any incriminating data of micro-clots.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 03:45 PM (W7XSX)

94 By whom, kemosabe?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

Everyone

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:45 PM (fexSQ)

95 Lots of folk in my office were so happy for the shot. I was not one of them.

My blood is not pure but I never got the jab.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 11, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)

96 He justifies this by noting that he went to medical school whereas most patients did not, and so he knows the right course of action and they simply don't. When told that this violates the law of informed consent, he snaps back that informed consent is a lie because informed consent is impossible for non-experts. So might as well lie to them or trick them into doing "the right thing," at least according to "the experts."
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The hilarious thing about House is that in every single Episode he is wrong 4 or 5 times before he finally gets it right in the last 10 minutes.

Posted by: A good start at December 11, 2025 03:45 PM (kwWDM)

97 Whatever happened to if it saves just ONE child....
Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:28 P

You thought we were serious about that?
Posted by: My Cousin Lefty at December 11, 2025 03:39 PM (kgE5c)

If saving "just one" child was in fact the pinnacle of human goodness, that guy who murdered the abortionist would be a hero, right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 03:45 PM (npFr7)

98 Those poor children died for Trump's sins. Pray for them with me tonight at my Church. Afterwards there will be quinoa cookies and rainbow dildos.

Posted by: Destini Z., Dedham, MA at December 11, 2025 03:45 PM (qUkBO)

99 But without House, would it be House, M.D.?
Posted by: Philosomoron at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (0sNs1)

The opposite of M.D. House is Full House.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:46 PM (Vq1pX)

100 Now "expert" is a semantically empty vessel too, beyond indicating that you're definitely, without a doubt, being lied to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:44 PM (Vq1pX)

"Authorities" is making its way up the same ladder.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:46 PM (fexSQ)

101 If it saves just one child only applies if it is a leftist concept to steal freedom or liberty. Otherwise leftists don't give a fuck about a child's life as we all know.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 03:46 PM (xvV+O)

102 While traveling for Thanksgiving, I saw, on MSNBC I think it was, an acknowledgment that yes, the COVID vaccine did kill people. At least, that’s what the graphic said, I couldn’t hear what they were saying.

But no worries, because the tradeoff was worth it. The graphic compared the chance of death from COVID (possibly adverse reactions, but I’m pretty sure it was death) with the chance of catching COVID, and there was no contest. The chance of catching COVID swamped the chance of death from the vaccine.

Which leads me to suspect that the chance of death from the vaccine swamps the chance of death from catching COVID.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 11, 2025 03:46 PM (EXyHK)

103
So, what?

Posted by: I gotta ask at December 11, 2025 03:46 PM (Ij7mQ)

104 96 The hilarious thing about House is that in every single Episode he is wrong 4 or 5 times before he finally gets it right in the last 10 minutes.

Posted by: A good start at December 11, 2025 03:45 PM (kwWDM)

=======

*furiously taking notes*
-the writers of Doc Martin

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

105 It's the most perfect vaccine in the history of vaccines like 2020 was the most clean election in the history of elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

One of the main tells there is a psy-op is if the same message is coming through all the media

Another one is if "thought leaders" like movie stars and singers promote the same message

The third tell is if there is cancellation of alternative thoughts or countering arguments - you know, like ace and apparently half the world getting banned from Twitter.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 03:46 PM (rbvCR)

106 Honestly, handing out prescriptions for Quaaludes would have done more good than those shots.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 03:46 PM (Wg6v7)

107 House is the worst part of House MD. He makes it almost unwatchable.
Posted by: ace at December 11, 2025 03:37 PM

But without House, would it be House, M.D.?
Posted by: Philosomoron at December 11, 2025 03:41 PM (0sNs1)
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* House is brilliant.
* House is thoroughly unlikable.
* That tension made the show.

Posted by: Axeman at December 11, 2025 03:47 PM (krQz2)

108 One single brave bomb-laden jet pilot needs to eliminate the WEF building when everyone is in attendance.

https://tinyurl.com/3ppykh3h

Millions of lives will be saved.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 03:47 PM (ZD9Z9)

109 Back in the 80s there was a bad swine flu vaccine.

It killed/injured a number of people, but it wasn't obvious at first because no one was collecting this type of data.

60 Minutes of all shows did an investigation and it turned out the FDA had ignored test data and then intentionally didn't follow up on investigating as they should have. Hell they had a letter from one employee to his boss saying they needed to get this shot off the market and when they presented it to the boss he claimed he never got the letter...

This scandal led to VARS since they needed a single entry point for this sort of data to be able to find bad vaccines in the future.

And of course as we know the clot shot ended up having more entries in VARS then all other vaccines over VARS's 30 year history by a factor of more then 1000.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

110 > They intentionally buried any incriminating data of micro-clots.

Speaking of clots, anyone remember that conspiracy theory about long, ropy, rubbery clots being found in *all* of the dead people? Whatever happened to that? Did we all just get over it?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 03:48 PM (Yp6az)

111 I got the two J&J shots because my husband had to to continue at the bank and my kid had to to serve out his army commission. We'd all go out together in a blaze of glory.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 03:48 PM (uQzkA)

112
Some people did some things.
In the enthusiasm of the moment, mistakes may have been made.
Old news.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Time to move on and heal.

Posted by: The CDC and the MSM at December 11, 2025 03:48 PM (0sNs1)

113 House was the only character on that show i didn't want to throw a brick at.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:48 PM (Vq1pX)

114 69 Why oh why did my "#Science" never catch on. Maybe I should have spelled it out? Hashtag Science? No that's not better. It's worse and I'm dumb.

octothorpe science > hashtag science

Posted by: anachronda at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (sGtp+)

115 I'm sooooo glad that my wife and I were able to get religious exemptions for the jab for federal-contractor employees.

We both have health issues. I was afraid that we were both gonna be doomed if we got it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (77rzZ)

116 The biggest psy-op tell was chinese people dropping dead on the street in videos.

Worked on many.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (cS1cw)

117 Speaking of CS Lewis, he did a pretty good job of describing the dystopia of the $billion science and bureaucratic alliance we're living under in That Hideous Strength. In that fantasy novel he had an org called NICE, the National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments. It was staffed by what you would think of today as being in the WEF.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (Dv3i1)

118 Yesterday’s conspiracy = today’s headline.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (9iyS+)

119 Isn't it odd that the solution to war, poverty, death, destruction, illness, depression, disease, and the global climate crisis is always communism?

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (fexSQ)

120 The solution to hating House is not to watch House.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (L3gF5)

121 The chance of catching COVID swamped the chance of death from the vaccine.

This is another game the left plays. If you show the data that the clot shot had *no* reduction in your risk of getting COVID they'll tell you no one ever claimed that it did (yeah ignore Biden saying it on national TV and using it as grounds for his mandates). But then later they'll note that if you don't get your shot you are putting grandma at risk...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

122 I just read a thing linked at Insty where they Dr says:

"But COVID's worse," he added. A case of COVID-19 is about 10 times as likely to induce myocarditis as an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination, Wu said."

But this Dr. clearly failed statistics. The "COVID" cohort here are people who presented at hospital. That is maybe 1% of covid actual cases. So 1/1000 who have covid (by his numbers) have myocarditis. But 1/10 of vaccinated do (his number - "10x worse")

So it appears "Covid's much worse," in reality, the vaccine is a killer. He is looking at the data and LYING.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 03:50 PM (Pkr1Y)

123 A response from 12 former FDA commissioners

Why is this *always* their playbook?

If Trump said the sun rises in the east, we'd shortly be hearing a statement from 37 former astronomers that he's wrong.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 11, 2025 03:50 PM (2ocoG)

124 The efficacy of the vaccine is below that of a placebo. And can cause severe problems. You should probably get one.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 03:50 PM (n5tGW)

125 I have amended the terms of The Science.

Pray I do not alter them any further.

Posted by: Darth Fauci at December 11, 2025 03:50 PM (R1cQa)

126 Rats, probably have to work Saturday
I like watching the Army- Navy game

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)

127 House was the only character on that show i didn't want to throw a brick at.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Oh, that cute assistant chick doctor in the first couple of seasons was not brick-worthy.

Neither was Sela Ward.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

128 The actor who plays House is a Brit who cops a very good American accent. He also was in one of my favorite little miniseries, The Night Manager.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 11, 2025 03:50 PM (bNf8H)

129 Sanjay Gupta saved my friend's life. She had an unknown flesh eating disease. He treated her and continued to follow up for years, long after she was no longer a patient. Her legs are still scarred from the virus.

Say whatever else you want to say about the man, but as a physician, he is the best of us.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 11, 2025 03:50 PM (wBaIH)

130 It's the most perfect vaccine in the history of vaccines like 2020 was the most clean election in the history of elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
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Knowing that DC was working behind the scenes to recruit BLM as riot army should Trump win in 2020, I can conceive that we might not have seen "actually masks work!" or possibly even the shutdown.

It was mid-2020 when social media started banning people who questioned the legitimacy of mail-in balloting. Even though mass mail-in balloting was not something that was tried and true, and has always had mainline skeptics.

I entertain that the powers that be turned America upside down--creating the closest thing to fascism America has ever seen--to fix the 2020 election.

Posted by: Axeman at December 11, 2025 03:51 PM (krQz2)

131 Do not watch House if you are allergic to House.

Posted by: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy at December 11, 2025 03:51 PM (0sNs1)

132 It's not that we killed a few dozen children and probably lots more, but that we had the child's best interest at heart.

Oops, OOPSIE.

Posted by: CDC Medical Experts at December 11, 2025 03:51 PM (xvV+O)

133 106 Honestly, handing out prescriptions for Quaaludes would have done more good than those shots.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 03:46 PM (Wg6v7)
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The return of medically-prescribed Hitachi Magic Wands would do this country a shit load of good.

Posted by: Howard Johnson at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (3BwY8)

134 I honestly struggle to comment on this

Except to say, excellent essay Ace.

Thank you.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (emBoF)

135 "There was no *widespread* fraud" was the biggest tell of all. Well that and throwing the Republicans out and boarding up all the windows and the Brinks trucks full of ballots and the black panthers with night sticks and the vote totals changing overnight.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (fexSQ)

136 But you are not the client of "public health officials." The government, specifically the President or the state governor, is their client.

Posted by: Ace at 03:27 PM

Exactly, 100% correct.

And these are the "experts" that Jumanji Jackson wants ruling America.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (n9ltV)

137
Tee hee. I'm still not in jail!

Posted by: Felon Fauci at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (Ij7mQ)

138 I remember during COVID mania most nations intentionally hid their all cause mortality numbers.

But not Scotland for some reason.

The summer they introduced the clot shot their death numbers increased by about a percent.

Now...if the clot shot had any sort of positive effect that makes no sense right? They already had COVID, and it was the summer so this wasn't a bad flu on top of COVID...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

139 Perry Mason always nailed the perp at x:52.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (W7XSX)

140 We are not mass murderers.... oh wait we are.

Posted by: CDC Medical Experts at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (xvV+O)

141 The actor who plays House is a Brit who cops a very good American accent. He also was in one of my favorite little miniseries, The Night Manager.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

Hugh Laurie, otherwise known as Bertie Wooster.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

142 "Justice Department fails to reindict Letitia James for a second time" laughs CNN today. Har! Har!

Yeah, I don't think the DOJ is done yet with CNN's favorite DEI hire. I have a feeling she'll wind up eventually with wearing an orange suit with "County" on the stenciled on her back.

Posted by: Boswell at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (NTVPI)

143 "the fact that COVID vaccination, on the whole, has prevented death on a massive scale"

Sure, Jan. Negative efficacy I am sure was buried in statistical noise.

Posted by: Max Power at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (SwyyQ)

144 The Left's favorite thing in the world is an undisprovable assertion. Well that and little boys.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (fexSQ)

145 Oh hey, a grand jury failed to indict Letitia James again. Glad we have a two-tiered legal system. Really instills faith in the nation.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (JCZqz)

146 Prediction: when the next one comes around the same AWFLs and cucks who were scared of the flu will be scared again. 2020 was an experiment both with Covid and BLM riots.

The left learned a lot of valuable lessons. The next time they’ll know how to tweak the message to get even more saps on board with the panic. They have AI now to fine tune all the psychological warfare on us at a micro level.

Yeah I know I’m crazy. Because the government would NEVER do that kind of stuff right?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (9iyS+)

147 I do not believe COVID was a Military Biological weapon that leaked from Wuhan.

I am 1,000% in agreement that the COVID Virus came from Gay and Lesbian Green Monkey's having Anal Sex and then bit a Sloth that then was bit by a Fly and that Fly bit a child of color in the Wuhan Market on Saturday June 31, 2020.

Dr. Fauci was Correct You H8ters and Homophobes !!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (J9q9v)

148 Can I Still Wear The Mask?
Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and do gooder at December 11, 2025

***
I saw one of your cohort at the library last night . . . a librarian, no less. She participated in the book club session and I could barely understand what she was saying with her cute blue face diaper on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (wzUl9)

149 , House is the worst part of House MD. He makes it almost unwatchable.

Will he ever get clean vs. do something so wrong it outweighs sooper-diagnostician?

Will he hallucinate Cuddy onto the pole again?

Posted by: DaveA at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (FhXTo)

150 Speaking of clots, anyone remember that conspiracy theory about long, ropy, rubbery clots being found in *all* of the dead people? Whatever happened to that? Did we all just get over it?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 03:48 PM (Yp6az)

Nope, still happening, as are the massive blood clots. My brother in law had those last year.

The only therapy I have heard about for preventing or ameliorating it is Nattokinase and Bromelain. It is not "standard of care" so you have to buy it and dose it yourself.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (rbvCR)

151 Slightly related: I watch "The Office" reruns on occasion. The episodes I hate are the Michael focused ones.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (cS1cw)

152 Hugh Laurie, otherwise known as Bertie Wooster.

Also in Blackadder...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

153 also "public health" is a term much like "inflation reduction act" or "affordable care act."

it's a commie lie.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (emBoF)

154 Attitude has been around.

The Scotus decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) by a rather progressive court full of undistinguished corporate lawyers (decided the same year as Lochner) said it was perfectly fine for the State of Mass to order compulsory vaccinations on the explicit idea that the needs of the many outweighed the rights of the individual.

This is despite the fact that Jacobson could demonstrate past bad reactions to the smallpox vaccine as a child in Sweden and he had already been vaccinated against smallpox.

Bad bloviating by progressive justices indicate Jacobson should trust the experts based on experiences in foreign countries.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (WDjG6)

155 Incidentally, a woman judge is demanding the original Maryland Man be brought back to the country and freed, preferably in her snizz. CNN is ecstatic, of course.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 11, 2025 03:54 PM (2ocoG)

156 146 Prediction: when the next one comes around the same AWFLs and cucks who were scared of the flu will be scared again. 2020 was an experiment both with Covid and BLM riots.

The left learned a lot of valuable lessons. The next time they’ll know how to tweak the message to get even more saps on board with the panic. They have AI now to fine tune all the psychological warfare on us at a micro level.

Yeah I know I’m crazy. Because the government would NEVER do that kind of stuff right?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (9iyS+)

======

They've tried like 5 times to ramp up pandemic panic since 2021.

They've all failed. Miserably.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

157 There was never any "informed consent" regarding the risks.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 03:55 PM (W7XSX)

158 every day I thank God I went first. no one else - not even my husband - got that mRNA

they all had cards tho.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 03:55 PM (emBoF)

159 My two comments above I posted because I want to show how easy it is to lie with statistics. Especially something as complex as this.

Years ago I thought the truth would eventually be too obvious to hide. (I had same thought about elections)

Now I think it is too late -- they are too committed to the lie and making too much money mRNA vaccines should be banned like orbital lobotomy.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 03:55 PM (Pkr1Y)

160 Prediction: when the next one comes around the same AWFLs and cucks who were scared of the flu will be scared again. 2020 was an experiment both with Covid and BLM riots.

The left learned a lot of valuable lessons. The next time they’ll know how to tweak the message to get even more saps on board with the panic. They have AI now to fine tune all the psychological warfare on us at a micro level.

Yeah I know I’m crazy. Because the government would NEVER do that kind of stuff right?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025

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When I bring up the craziness now, not a few people don't want to hear it and want to forget all about that time. Probably, I suspect, because they either (a) didn't get their AWFL way, or (b) because they know how stupid they were to fall for it all and don't want to be reminded of that embarrassing fact.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 03:56 PM (wzUl9)

161 I saw one of your cohort at the library last night . . . a librarian, no less. She participated in the book club session and I could barely understand what she was saying with her cute blue face diaper on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (wzUl9)

Constantly interrupt: "Sorry, your voice is muffled. Could you repeat that, please?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 03:56 PM (npFr7)

162
Yesterday’s conspiracy = today’s headline.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM

they're not "conspiracy theories"

they're spoiler alerts

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 03:56 PM (tljrc)

163 Never got the shot and never got the Wuhan Flu.....

Posted by: Jackson at December 11, 2025 03:56 PM (J9q9v)

164 My dad, who has not been taking care of himself, fell and broke his ankle several months ago. He wasn't healing well and he got infections. Doctors finally decided his foot had to go. So now my dad is a pirate.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 03:56 PM (Yp6az)

165 155 Incidentally, a woman judge is demanding the original Maryland Man be brought back to the country and freed, preferably in her snizz. CNN is ecstatic, of course.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 11, 2025 03:54 PM (2ocoG)

=======

Apparently, the technicality is that the DOJ didn't produce an order of removal.

However, Garcia's lawyers admitted, in early discussions in the court, that Garcia was under an order of removal.

So, factual assertion that the defense had admitted to the judge is throwing as not established. Which means...appeal and stay and remand (no...the higher courts are not going to remove Xinis, unfortunately).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

166 House isnt a terrible show. He is a drug addicted sociopath with daddy issues. In real life he be gay, and would have his license suspended. Its watchable for me because the comebacks are pretty good. And Cameron. And Dr cuddy are smoke shows. In a later season cuddy is seen in thigh highs, garter belt etc. I can still see it in my minds eye. Very appeallingly presented. Most of the medicine is reasonably presented. Except for the fact that his team is shown doing procedures surgeries they would never be able to do in real life.

Posted by: A good start at December 11, 2025 03:57 PM (kwWDM)

167 "It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."

Posted by: Orwell comma George at December 11, 2025 03:57 PM (Ij7mQ)

168 And it wasn't all voluntary either.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 03:57 PM (W7XSX)

169 I do not know if covid was a CCP research Fauci financed bio weapon or just a particularly over hyped flu season propagandized as the end of the world.

No. I'm sure it was an over hyped flu season propagandized as the end of the world.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 03:57 PM (xvV+O)

170 C. S. Lewis - "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Yadda-yadda-yadda..."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 03:57 PM (mlg/3)

171 "It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."

Please leave daughter out of it.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 03:57 PM (W7XSX)

172 155 Incidentally, a woman judge is demanding the original Maryland Man be brought back to the country and freed, preferably in her snizz. CNN is ecstatic, of course.
Posted by: Ian S.

You know how law enforcement shrugs when a squatter takes over a house and changes the locks and the homeowner is stuck for months or longer trying to get courts to kick the squatter out? DoJ should house 'Maryland Man' in this judge's house and give him a pamphlet on squatters rights.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 03:57 PM (Dv3i1)

173 131 Do not watch House if you are allergic to House.
Posted by: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

As long as I can listen to house music, while building THIS HOUSE (flexes). And what kind of geezer listens to a doctor called "bones"? Someone who needs Viagra? That's getting DANGEROUSLY close to "boner", which is the last thing I want to see, or think about, when a dude doctor is about to examine me.

Posted by: The Brofessor, Don Mazzetti at December 11, 2025 03:58 PM (JCZqz)

174 The actor who plays House is a Brit who cops a very good American accent. He also was in one of my favorite little miniseries, The Night Manager.

Ahem.

Posted by: Blackadder! at December 11, 2025 03:58 PM (xTIDn)

175 It will take decades for public health authorities to regain widespread trust.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 11, 2025 03:58 PM (rJ48h)

176 Predictable all along Maryland Man would never be deported.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 03:58 PM (9iyS+)

177 164 My dad, who has not been taking care of himself, fell and broke his ankle several months ago. He wasn't healing well and he got infections. Doctors finally decided his foot had to go. So now my dad is a pirate.
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A peg leg and a cutlass impresses a lot of chicks. Does he have both eyes?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 03:58 PM (Wg6v7)

178 > I saw one of your cohort at the library last night . . . a librarian, no less. She participated in the book club session and I could barely understand what she was saying with her cute blue face diaper on.

There's a woman at my church who still has her N95 every single week.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 03:58 PM (Yp6az)

179 whoa !

nice one:

https://tinyurl.com/3awjeu2a

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK)

180 They've tried like 5 times to ramp up pandemic panic since 2021.

They've all failed. Miserably.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

The bioweapons freezers are stacked deep, my friend. We will hit the Lotto one day. The Twelfth Monkey will come.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 03:59 PM (rbvCR)

181 115 I'm sooooo glad that my wife and I were able to get religious exemptions for the jab for federal-contractor employees.
_____

I can never understand why there is a religious exemption but not a science-based exemption.

Posted by: Destini Z., Dedham, MA at December 11, 2025 03:59 PM (qUkBO)

182 > A peg leg and a cutlass impresses a lot of chicks. Does he have both eyes?

Yes, but that can be remedied.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 03:59 PM (Yp6az)

183 Remember how when COVID was dying down the FNM tried to make moneypox a thing?

And even kids could get it!

But then it leaked out the child who got it apparently got it from his two gay dads who also spread it to the dog.

And...the story quickly left the FNM...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

184 Constantly interrupt: "Sorry, your voice is muffled. Could you repeat that, please?"
___

I have to do that anyways. Maybe I should get my hearing checked.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 04:00 PM (Dv3i1)

185 > I can never understand why there is a religious exemption but not a science-based exemption.

Because Fauci was the SCIENCE, duh.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 04:00 PM (Yp6az)

186 If your adverse reaction to House lasts longer than four hours, see Dr. House for a lupus test.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 04:00 PM (0sNs1)

187 So wait. The vax killed more kids than the coof?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Suprise, surprise, surprise!

Posted by: Gomer Fauci at December 11, 2025 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

188 The actor who plays House is a Brit who cops a very good American accent. He also was in one of my favorite little miniseries, The Night Manager.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

Hugh Laurie, otherwise known as Bertie Wooster.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025

***
He was also in the remake of Flight of the Phoenix. He says that he recorded his audition by phone while he was on location with the film, and was positive the show would never sell because the main character was so unlikable.

Years before, too, he was the luckless but memorable airline passenger who had to listen to Rachel natter on about her relationship to Ross in an episode of Friends. ("You're a horrible person, and furthermore, it's quite obvious you two *were* 'on a break'!")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:00 PM (wzUl9)

189 Another reason they can not admit the vaccine was a mistake is that they used the "expert" lie to push it.

If they ever admit that "experts" are fallible (and corrupt) they lose it all. This is existential for them.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM (Pkr1Y)

190 Trump is not a doctor and is a germophobe. I don’t know what he knew (and neither do you). COVID came out of a PRC bio-weapons lab and might have been much worse. It was NOT an influenza virus, but in retrospect was comparable to a bad, but not very bad, flu epidemic. Think 1968 flu not 1918. The measures taken against it were nonsense and proven not to work by measures taken against the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919. Isolation, masking, and distancing were tried then and made no difference. They didn’t work this time either. I think Trump was manipulated by his advisors like Fauci and Birx, but they, Fauci and Birx, were in on the scam. Frankly, I think Trump was too trusting of people like them and got fooled into “solving” the problem with a dubious “vaccine” technology: the MRNA approach. Again I think Trump didn’t know how dangerous that approach is: he just didn’t know and trusted his “experts” too much.
Cont. below.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM (8lgVD)

191 Incidentally, a woman judge is demanding the original Maryland
Man....
=
I may have mentioned in tbe past that you would not believe the ridiculousness of tbe judges i have dealt with. Since Trumps re election, I no longer say that, because its out in the open now. There are many judges who do whatever they feel like. That is therw own personal rule of law what do i feel like and they make up the rationale after.

Posted by: A good start at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM (kwWDM)

192 They picked the wrong flu strains for this years vax. Again.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM (uQzkA)

193 Tell the judge to send U.S. Marshalls.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM (W7XSX)

194 Cont.

Trump was naive, but well intentioned. He never called for a national shut-down: that was due to state and community leaders. The mandatory “vaccination” occurred under Biden not Trump. It was not required in my state, and I worked for the state: I never took it. The MRNA based “vaccine” should be outlawed. Some countries are moving in that direction. That is one thing I will hold against Trump. He doesn’t want to admit how badly he was fooled. Let’s hope that once burnt, twice shy applies here. I know I will never blindly accept vaccination again, but will research what it is first. Basically do not accept any MRNA-based shot.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM (8lgVD)

195
189 Another reason they can not admit the vaccine was a mistake is that they used the "expert" lie to push it.

If they ever admit that "experts" are fallible (and corrupt) they lose it all. This is existential for them.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM (Pkr1Y)

======

Oh, it's the admission that's going to destroy their reputation, is it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

196 Covid was biological warfare waged by a government on their own citizens.

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM (o2ZRX)

197 Was COVID designed to depopulate the PRC because of over a Billion People and food shortages ?????

But they screwed up and it spread to the West before a PRC Vaccine Blackmail Plan could be introduced..???

Posted by: Jackson at December 11, 2025 04:02 PM (J9q9v)

198 They picked the wrong flu strains for this years vax. Again.

The actual effectiveness of the flu vaccine is pretty low.

Even if they pick the correct variant coming out of China it will have mutated significantly by the time it gets to you.

The real answer here would be to blockade China or at least force them to change their farming habits but...that's not going to happen

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

199 Funny but "CDC Guidelines" quickly became many companies "Mandatory Policies."

Posted by: Didja notice? at December 11, 2025 04:02 PM (Ij7mQ)

200 I saw one of your cohort at the library last night . . . a librarian, no less. She participated in the book club session and I could barely understand what she was saying with her cute blue face diaper on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I had that problem a lot during Covid, as I am slightly deaf (though my wife might say more than "slightly"). I had to go to a FedEx office and there was this girl behind the counter, from which I had to stand six feet away, of course. The girl was a soft speaker anyway, but with the face diaper on I couldn't hear a word she was saying. Finally, I just marched up to the counter, and told her I couldn't hear her. That was the only way I was able to hear her and get done what I was there to do.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

201 They changed the definition of 'vaccine' to fit the clot shot.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 04:03 PM (Q+gd/)

202 they ever admit that "experts" are fallible (and corrupt) they lose it all. This is existential for them.
==
Pete Buutigegge is an expert, but RFK is not. They dont argue from principle. It just what do we want and how do we get it.

Posted by: A good start at December 11, 2025 04:03 PM (kwWDM)

203 I saw one of your cohort at the library last night . . . a librarian, no less. She participated in the book club session and I could barely understand what she was saying with her cute blue face diaper on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 03:53 PM (wzUl9)

Constantly interrupt: "Sorry, your voice is muffled. Could you repeat that, please?"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025

***
I've done that with clerks at stores who insist on strapping that Badge of Submission on. Their managers ought to have told them, "Leave it at home, or stay at home without pay. Your choice.")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:03 PM (wzUl9)

204 196 Covid was biological warfare waged by a government on their own citizens.
Posted by: Eromero

Seeing as how they are also importing 3rd world rapists, murderers, welfare fraudsters and other assorted criminals, you'd think maybe the people would wake up to the fact their government doesn't like them very much.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 04:04 PM (Dv3i1)

205 196 Covid was biological warfare waged by a government on their own citizens.
Posted by: Eromero

The US or Chinese government?

Yes.

Posted by: Tinfoil Hat Man at December 11, 2025 04:04 PM (JCZqz)

206 Totally OT:

Robert Pattinson seems to like to be in the center of Love Triangles.

Poor Tom Holland.

Short Kings get no respect.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 04:04 PM (XV/Pl)

207 China produced their own COVID vaccine. Unlike ours it used a dead COVID viron as traditional vaccines do.

My understanding is that it provided little to no actual resistance to COVID as the disease mutates too quickly for a standard vaccine to work and China *knew* this when they mandated domestically.

But they apparently felt a placebo was a better choice then the clot shot.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 04:04 PM (sKqQm)

208 >> They picked the wrong flu strains for this years vax.

The flu shot is basically worthless. Not much effect on mortality and morbidity. But it's not dangerous.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 04:05 PM (w6EFb)

209 Still waiting in pre-op. Hopefully they will light this candle soon....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 04:05 PM (gXoeb)

210 205 196 Covid was biological warfare waged by a government on their own citizens.
Posted by: Eromero

The US or Chinese government?

Yes.
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Which tells you why they invested so heavily in 'Russian Collusion' meme.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 04:05 PM (Wg6v7)

211 Was that wrong? Should we not have done that?

Posted by: Big Pharma at December 11, 2025 04:05 PM (Ij7mQ)

212 Covid was designed to subjugate the world.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 04:05 PM (fexSQ)

213 I think that if the left tries the covid scam again there will be expert and government personnel killings and lots of them. So they are a little scared of that.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 04:06 PM (xvV+O)

214 I can never understand why there is a religious exemption but not a science-based exemption.
*
Because Fauci was the SCIENCE, duh.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025

***
I'm pleased there was the former, and that my employers accepted mine. Otherwise I might have been retired in late 2021 with less income in my pocket.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:06 PM (wzUl9)

215 I can never understand why there is a religious exemption but not a science-based exemption.
Posted by: Destini Z

Depends on state laws in many cases. Public Health is a police power of state governments under the 10th Amendment. But overlaid is the complex regulations of Federal grant and health care programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Tricare among others.

The whole edifice of mandatory vaccinations rests on the very old Jacobson v. Mass case of 1905 where an individual challenged Mass law that ignored the rights of individuals altogether to avoid the vaccination but fined non-compliers with a $5 penalty. Jacobson sued alleging violations of his federally protected civil rights because he had been vaccinated as a child for smallpox in Sweden and sustained a vaccination injury. His argument thus that he was exempt from Mass law because of prior vaccination and individual heightened risk from a new one was brushed aside by the Mass Sup. Ct.

US Scotus allowed Mass's fine to stand based on its perverted trust in experts and authority.

Continued.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:06 PM (WDjG6)

216 The flu shot is basically worthless. Not much effect on mortality and morbidity. But it's not dangerous.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 04:05 PM (w6EFb)

depending on the study you look at, historically the flu vaccine can increase the likelihood of contracting the flu.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 04:07 PM (rbvCR)

217 Still waiting in pre-op. Hopefully they will light this candle soon....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Best wishes on your surgery, Dear Lady. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

218 Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 03:57 PM
👍

Getting tired of the fkin Comassar Judges

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 04:07 PM (Ia/+0)

219
The solution to hating House is not to watch House.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (L3gF5)

I'm pretty well convinced that the popularity of House had more to do with the audience wanting to see Cuddy and Thirteen get freakysexy.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 04:07 PM (y9nCu)

220 >>>House isnt a terrible show. He is a drug addicted sociopath with daddy issues. In real life he be gay, and would have his license suspended. Its watchable for me because the comebacks are pretty good. And Cameron. And Dr cuddy are smoke shows. In a later season cuddy is seen in thigh highs, garter belt etc. I can still see it in my minds eye. Very appeallingly presented. Most of the medicine is reasonably presented. Except for the fact that his team is shown doing procedures surgeries they would never be able to do in real life.

it's an okay show but House is the worst part of it. He just causes problems for everyone, including himself. I don't really care when he sabotages himself but when he sabotages his friends and Cuddy, it pisses me off.

Posted by: ace at December 11, 2025 04:08 PM (1wjle)

221 depending on the study you look at, historically the flu vaccine can increase the likelihood of contracting the flu.
Posted by: Kindltot

My wife got the flu from the vaccine one year. Never again.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

222 I maintain the plan was to release covid during *Hillary's* reelection campaign in 2020, to stop anyone from gathering, make it automatic, and to let her help run the West's lockdown suicide.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 04:08 PM (fexSQ)

223 I got the COVID Vaccine every week and look at me. I am mentally fit and still serving as the President of Star Trek Federation of Planets.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 11, 2025 04:08 PM (J9q9v)

224

Trust the experts.
Dr. Howard
Dr. Fine
Dr. Howard

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 04:08 PM (pkeXY)

225 220 it's an okay show but House is the worst part of it. He just causes problems for everyone, including himself. I don't really care when he sabotages himself but when he sabotages his friends and Cuddy, it pisses me off.

Posted by: ace at December 11, 2025 04:08 PM (1wjle)

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George Bailey never sabotaged anyone else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

226 I had to go to a FedEx office and there was this girl behind the counter, from which I had to stand six feet away, of course. The girl was a soft speaker anyway, but with the face diaper on I couldn't hear a word she was saying. Finally, I just marched up to the counter, and told her I couldn't hear her. That was the only way I was able to hear her and get done what I was there to do.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025

***
I did that a couple of times. "There's something in front of your mouth; I can't understand you." And invariably, they would violate their own silly protocol by pulling the thing down two inches and speaking properly, then shoving it back into place. Heh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:08 PM (wzUl9)

227 In that same year, however, the progressive jurists on Scotus were perfectly fine with holding a) that an individual could demand an individual hearing based on individual circumstances as to an improvement district tax, and b) that the state of NY could not mandate health and safety labor laws because individuals had a 14th Amendment based right to contract with employers that superceded such legislation.

Scotus got it right in 1/3 of the cases that year.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:09 PM (WDjG6)

228 I loved the Covid years. I got out of doing all the shit I couldn't get out of doing years before: weddings, baby showers, dinner parties, etc. All I had to do was say my throat felt a little scratchy and I thought it wise to stay home.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 04:09 PM (uQzkA)

229 Praying Teresa

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 04:09 PM (fexSQ)

230 I pray that God has a bigger and better imagination than I do, because I can't think of enough bad things to happen to Fauci in the afterlife.

Posted by: Wenda at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (SmHt8)

231 George Bailey never sabotaged anyone else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Mirror bearded George Bailey though was a fiend.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (WDjG6)

232 There was the option of a medical exemption, but to back that up you basically had to turn over all your medical history to your employer. The religious exemption was shorter and sweeter.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (77rzZ)

233 I'm pretty well convinced that the popularity of House had more to do with the audience wanting to see Cuddy and Thirteen get freakysexy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025

***
Part of it, and Cameron too. But the show also had snappy dialog and Laurie's astonishing performance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (wzUl9)

234 I loved the Covid years. I got out of doing all the shit I couldn't get out of doing years before: weddings, baby showers, dinner parties, etc. All I had to do was say my throat felt a little scratchy and I thought it wise to stay home.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 04:09 PM (uQzkA)

It still works. All the libs have to hear is you have a stuffy nose and they hide under their bed for days.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (fexSQ)

235 231 George Bailey never sabotaged anyone else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Mirror bearded George Bailey though was a fiend.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (WDjG6)

======

He knew his way around an Agonizer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

236 Public health officials focus on what is "statistically" beneficial for society. not what is beneficial to you.

The scales fell from my eyes, when public health officials started diving into gun control and other issues as "health" issues.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (gDhA9)

237 But children did not need the "vaccines," meaning that the risks of mandating it to them -- and the deaths that then occurred -- were absolutely unnecessary.

Getting the "vaccines" mandated for children WAS absolutely necessary for the Deep State, because then the "vaccine" is no longer under only Emergency Use Authorization. If I remember correctly, vaccine companies could be sued for health issues and deaths if the "vaccine" remained on the EUA.

But once the "vaccine" was mandated for children, it was no longer under EUA and no one could sue for any harm or death that came from the "vaccine". There was complete immunity for the government and the drug companies.

That was the entire reason the Deep State pushed for mandating it for children who didn't need it... to prevent lawsuits for all the harm and death it caused.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:11 PM (P5BPp)

238 I loved the Covid years. I got out of doing all the shit I couldn't get out of doing years before: weddings, baby showers, dinner parties, etc. All I had to do was say my throat felt a little scratchy and I thought it wise to stay home.
Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 04:09 PM (uQzkA)

You had the power all along, my dear!

Posted by: Glenda the Good Witch at December 11, 2025 04:12 PM (rbvCR)

239 Those twelve guys in the lab coats behind Obama. Those are the experts.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 04:12 PM (fexSQ)

240 >> Public health officials focus on what is "statistically" beneficial for society. not what is beneficial to you.

Yes. Those are two different things.

And know, it's now even what is statistically beneficial for the collective population, but a smaller subset of that population. Pharma, etc.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 04:12 PM (w6EFb)

241 Mirror bearded George Bailey though was a fiend.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (WDjG6)
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He knew his way around an Agonizer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Oh my! Pics?!??!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at December 11, 2025 04:12 PM (JCZqz)

242 The most unbelievable thing about House was how in nearly every episode he would have his team commit breaking and entering into the patient's house to look for clues.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:13 PM (77rzZ)

243 Who killed Bob Saget?

Posted by: Full Diaper at December 11, 2025 04:13 PM (oftw2)

244 Mirror bearded George Bailey though was a fiend.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:10 PM (WDjG6)

Mirror bearded George Bailey was dead-set against fractional reserve banking, though.

Posted by: Glenda the Good Witch at December 11, 2025 04:13 PM (rbvCR)

245 243 Who killed Bob Saget?
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Suicide?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 04:13 PM (Wg6v7)

246 @243

>>Who killed Bob Saget?

Whatever passes for the Vegas Mob.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 04:14 PM (XV/Pl)

247 Expert oopsies!!!

FDA approved. Marketed. Then pulled due to oops!

Thalidomide, phenylpropanolamine, Vioxx, Meridia, Avandia, Darvon, Darvocet, Belviq, Zantac.

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:14 PM (kwWDM)

248 . . . It was NOT an influenza virus, but in retrospect was comparable to a bad, but not very bad, flu epidemic. Think 1968 flu not 1918. The measures taken against it were nonsense and proven not to work by measures taken against the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919. Isolation, masking, and distancing were tried then and made no difference. They didn’t work this time either. . . .
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 11, 2025

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I remember the 1968 outbreak. No schools got closed. When I got sick with it, I was out from school for several weeks, but when I came back nobody suggested I had to be in isolation or distanced. It would have been insane. As it was in 2020-22.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:14 PM (wzUl9)

249 "The idea that mRNA-based shots have, tragically, killed a very small number.."

Tragically skilled a small number.....

What would a large number invoke?????

Posted by: James Lewis at December 11, 2025 04:14 PM (TMfHK)

250 stupid sock . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 04:15 PM (rbvCR)

251 What would a large number invoke?????
Posted by: James Lewis at December 11, 2025 04:14 PM (TMfHK)

statistics.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 04:15 PM (rbvCR)

252 224

Trust the experts.
Dr. Howard
Dr. Fine
Dr. Howard
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 04:08 PM (pkeXY)

I haz sadz.

Posted by: Nick Riviera at December 11, 2025 04:16 PM (L3gF5)

253 Public health officials focus on what is "statistically" beneficial for society. not what is beneficial to you.
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Sure they do.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 04:16 PM (fexSQ)

254 You gotta admit. I was one pretty damn intelligent virus. I knew if you were walking into a restaurant or seated at a booth. I knew which way you were walking in a grocery store aisle.

Hell, I even knew when you were in a National Park after midnight.

Posted by: COVID-19 at December 11, 2025 04:16 PM (Ij7mQ)

255 Who killed Bob Saget?
Posted by: Full Diaper at December 11, 2025 04:13 PM (oftw2)

Who killed Bob Crane?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 04:16 PM (rbvCR)

256 Expert oopsies!!!

FDA approved. Marketed. Then pulled due to oops!

Thalidomide, phenylpropanolamine, Vioxx, Meridia, Avandia, Darvon, Darvocet, Belviq, Zantac.

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025

***
I once ('5-'96) had a Rx for headache called Seldane. It worked, but that might have been partly because it was loaded with caffeine. No-Doz might have worked as well. But Seldane got pulled from the market -- I don't recall why.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:16 PM (wzUl9)

257
Thalidomide wasn't approved here. Someone at the FDA whose name escapes stopped it, as there wasn't enough safety data. That spared us compared to Europe and others. It was given here, I think, but not as much as it would've been if the FDA at the time approved it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 04:17 PM (w6EFb)

258 Also it knew when you were eating, or just breathing.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 04:17 PM (fexSQ)

259 The actor who plays House is a Brit who cops a very good American accent. He also was in one of my favorite little miniseries, The Night Manager.

Posted by: Frasier Crane

Hugh Laurie, otherwise known as Bertie Wooster.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM

Hugh Laurie had a great scene in "Friends" with Jennifer Aniston.

Rachel is flying to England to break-up Ross's wedding and Hugh Laurie's character tells her how horrible and selfish a person she is for doing so.

Then drops the mic by telling her that he sides with Ross that they were definitely "on a break".

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Mw0Rtg

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:18 PM (P5BPp)

260 Covid knew when you'd been naughty and when you'd been nice

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 04:18 PM (fexSQ)

261 Timpon Walz warns Minnesotans not to elect a con man.

Tim Walz
@Tim_Walz
We’ve seen what happens when we elect a con man to the highest office in America. We can’t let it happen here in Minnesota.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 04:19 PM (L/fGl)

262 Seldane worked, and it didn't make me drowsy.
It did make my heart pound at times, though.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 04:19 PM (rbvCR)

263 If they ever admit that "experts" are fallible (and corrupt) they lose it all. This is existential for them.
Posted by: bob

Doesn't matter how you get there. We're already there.

I agree they can't admit it. But that makes them look even worse.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 11, 2025 04:19 PM (ItWcy)

264 I also knew when you were at a BLM rally or an evil church worship service singing those dangerous hymns.

Posted by: COVID-19 at December 11, 2025 04:20 PM (3rtaB)

265 If it had not been for this place and all of you, I might have succumbed to some of the mental pressure and allowed them to inject me at least once. But the open-eyed people here led me to do some research beyond the constant drumbeat of the "news," and for that I am grateful!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:20 PM (wzUl9)

266 I quit trying to follow all the Real Statisticians, and Real Doctors. But I've seen many legit sounding claims that the fake vax killed many more than it saved. The damage was rather permanent, and the "excess deaths" are many.

And many Covid deaths were not Covid deaths, but maybe they died With Covid, and quite possibly the fake vax gave them the Covid (but then the fake vax damaged their heart, or it flared up some old cancer, or killed by other means).

The shutdowns and ventilators and wrong approach killed many, most more than anything else. But Fauci and his gang got their bonuses ... did we ever find out exactly how much all those goons made from Big Pharma kickbacks?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 11, 2025 04:20 PM (vbXSk)

267 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 04:19 PM (L/fGl)

Is Tim Walz even up for election next year?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 04:21 PM (Nx5jP)

268 ***
I once ('5-'96) had a Rx for headache called Seldane. It worked, but that might have been partly because it was loaded with caffeine. No-Doz might have worked as well. But Seldane got pulled from the market -- I don't recall why.
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Voluntarily pulled. FDA told company to do it because they were going to announce if you drank grapefruit juice or took certain antibiotics with it it could cause fatal arrythmia....

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:21 PM (kwWDM)

269 Just saw the trailer for Supergirl, that thing is going to tank so hard it's going to probably take out Gunn.

Looking forward to Schneiderverse 2.0.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 04:21 PM (XV/Pl)

270 What would a large number invoke?????
Posted by: James Lewis
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a statistic
J. Stalin.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:21 PM (WDjG6)

271 Think 1968 flu not 1918. The measures taken against it were nonsense and proven not to work by measures taken against the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919. Isolation, masking, and distancing were tried then and made no difference. They didn’t work this time either. I think Trump was manipulated by his advisors like Fauci and Birx, but they, Fauci and Birx, were in on the scam.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 11, 2025 04:01 PM

Not only did masking not work during the Spanish Flu, Fauci himself wrote a paper which essentially stated that more people died of bacterial pneumonia caused from wearing masks and spreading bacteria than people died of Spanish Flu.

So Fauci knew this from his own research and still pushed mask-wearing. It was an op. A WEF and Deep State op. From the beginning.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:22 PM (P5BPp)

272 Voluntarily pulled. FDA told company to do it because they were going to announce if you drank grapefruit juice or took certain antibiotics with it it could cause fatal arrythmia....
Posted by: Trust us!!!!!!

What is it with grapefruit juice? I once heard that it can make certain drugs ineffective. Why grapefruit juice and not, say, orange juice? What's different about grapefruit juice?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:22 PM (77rzZ)

273 Co-worker got flu shot not long ago and wiped him out the day after.
I never had one

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 04:23 PM (Ia/+0)

274 Seldane worked, and it didn't make me drowsy.
It did make my heart pound at times, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025

***
Made me wired and it became hard to take a nap on my days off. I found out later it was loaded with caffeine.

I had a clue years before. The mini-migraine that located over my right eye would often vanish after a time if I drank a Coca-Cola when it was on its way out. But I never followed up on that and suffered with the headaches for many years. Since the Seldane days I've been free of them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:23 PM (wzUl9)

275 Ace started watching House -- wasn't that a show like, 20 years ago?

Is it still running?

It was good for a season or two, but it just got tedious to me. I can not imagine it being "bingable" at any level. Has binge watching changed what they produce? House was the same story over and over each week -- you can't do that anymore.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 04:23 PM (Pkr1Y)

276 Is Tim Walz even up for election next year?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I think in 2026 for his fourth term. MN does not have term limits for its governor.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:23 PM (WDjG6)

277 Just saw the trailer for Supergirl, that thing is going to tank so hard it's going to probably take out Gunn.

Looking forward to Schneiderverse 2.0.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 04:21 PM

All one has to do it look at the "Truth. Justice. Whatever." promotional poster to realize it's going to be woke crap.

I think in the trailer they show a dog peeing on a newspaper picture of Superman.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:24 PM (P5BPp)

278 “If it only saves one life.” New hotness: “Fuck off.”

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 11, 2025 04:24 PM (MmP96)

279 >> What is it with grapefruit juice?

Some compound in the stuff affects an enzyme system in the liver, causing metabolism of various drugs to be drastically altered, basically.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 04:24 PM (w6EFb)

280 If you meet with a doctor, you're the client.

It would be nice to believe that. Increasingly, however, I believe that the clients are pharma and the medical industrial complex. I am the customer to be sold the latest tinctures and snake oils.

I don't say this to malign any of the members of the horde who are medicos, or your personal doctor - whom I'm sure is above reproach and only and always concerned for your health. Just reporting what I see.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 04:25 PM (ExV1e)

281 What is it with grapefruit juice? I once heard that it can make certain drugs ineffective. Why grapefruit juice and not, say, orange juice? What's different about grapefruit juice?

hmm

interesting

grapefruit extract is GSE, which I use medicinally. topically!

it's also used internally for certain things, but it can interfere with other medications. like it makes your blood pressure drugs not work anymore (while you're taking it)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 04:25 PM (emBoF)

282 The scales fell from my eyes, when public health officials started diving into gun control and other issues as "health" issues.
--------

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) more than a decade ago launched itself into the diseases of...guns...and salt intake.

The agency should have been boarded up at that time, or everyone fired and replaced with new hires who understood what a "disease" is.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 04:26 PM (TN0g+)

283 278 “If it only saves one life.” New hotness: “Fuck off.”
Posted by: Hokey Pokey

What got me was the Biden excuse that we could not vaxx the illegals coming in because they had rights implying Americans did not.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:26 PM (WDjG6)

284 Ace started watching House -- wasn't that a show like, 20 years ago?

Is it still running?

It was good for a season or two, but it just got tedious to me. I can not imagine it being "bingable" at any level. Has binge watching changed what they produce? House was the same story over and over each week -- you can't do that anymore.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025

***
It ran for five or six seasons. Heroes & Icons were running it in the daytime during the Sniffle Scare, and I'd watch it when I was home, "working."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:26 PM (wzUl9)

285 also knew when you were at a BLM rally or an evil church worship service singing those dangerous hymns."

But did you know if we've been bad or good...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 04:26 PM (XuXeR)

286 all doctors are hospitalists now, unless they are concierge docs

so no, you're not the "client"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 04:26 PM (emBoF)

287 all doctors are hospitalists now, unless they are concierge docs

so no, you're not the "client"
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Our PCP is concierge.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

288 Maybe I dont know how this works. But the "flu shot" is a "flu" shot.

Giving you the flu to build up antibodies. Obviously in a somewhat condensed version. Its not an "antibody" shot.

Or at least how I thought it worked.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 11, 2025 04:27 PM (ItWcy)

289 > Public health officials focus on what is "statistically" beneficial for society. not what is beneficial to you.

It's even worse than that. Because they're cowards who are terrified of being called racist, they force treatments that are only necessary for small segments of the population on everyone. See Hepatitis vaccines for babies for example.

Unless you're born into a crack den, you most likely don't need it. But doctors don't want to have that conversation, so they mandate EVERYONE have it. If you try to opt out, they will do their damndest to FORCE it on you. You might even have to deal with a CPS investigation.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 04:28 PM (Yp6az)

290 Oops. The mini-migraine would nail itself over my *left* eye, not my right. Just shows you how long it's been since I had it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:28 PM (wzUl9)

291 Our PCP is concierge.

that's nice!

you're very lucky

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 04:28 PM (emBoF)

292
speaking of stupid kids...

Do they even sell junior chemistry kits, anymore?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 04:28 PM (rnXZH)

293
Remember when kids liked things like Microscopes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 04:28 PM (rnXZH)

294 Here is also a reminder of the (at least) 35 reasons to not get the COVID "vaccine":

18 Reasons I Won't Be Getting a Covid Vaccine

https://bit.ly/3zBStfw

17 More Reasons I Won't Be Getting a Covid Vaccine

https://bit.ly/3Gzd3mu

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:29 PM (P5BPp)

295 I've said everything I needed to say about the COVID Op years ago.

What really needs to happen at this point is a wide swathe of villians to meet the business end of industrial wood chippers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 04:29 PM (XV/Pl)

296 But I wore such cute scarves!

Posted by: Bubblehead Birx at December 11, 2025 04:29 PM (3rtaB)

297 why did they have to rename "attending physician" into "hospitalist" ??

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)

298 Do they even sell junior chemistry kits, anymore?

they do!

I was about to give our set to my neighbor.

the boys like those electrical kits more tho. they could make little cars and other things.

the girl liked the chemistry one

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 04:29 PM (emBoF)

299 The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) more than a decade ago launched itself into the diseases of...guns...and salt intake.

The agency should have been boarded up at that time, or everyone fired and replaced with new hires who understood what a "disease" is.
Posted by: Crusader

Big permanent RIF there at CDC and their hero asshole head was canned after trying to subvert RFK Jr as head of DHS. The noxious evil previous head of CDC during Trump's term literally bragged about her own illegal and immoral actions promoting all the shutdown crap late in Trump I.

And you have smirking Senator Cassidy Rino from Louisiana as chair of HHS and CDC oversight (who voted the second time to impeach Trump) trying to dictate HHS policy for his miserable grifting from his donors.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:29 PM (WDjG6)

300 Why grapefruit juice and not, say, orange juice? What's different about grapefruit juice?
=
Furanocoumarins. Its an enzyme tbey have that blocks the bodys ability to regulate the steady break down of certain drugs. You get it much faster into you system than you should. So an all day slow release becomes a big whopping loading dose. Conversely with otber drugs it can interfere with the drug making it into the target cells, so you get less than you should.

Vastly oversimplified.

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:29 PM (kwWDM)

301 139 Perry Mason always nailed the perp at x:52.
Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 03:52 PM (W7XSX)

He lost the Case of the Terrified Typist.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 04:29 PM (rQwsY)

302
grapefruit extract is GSE, which I use medicinally. topically!

it's also used internally for certain things, but it can interfere with other medications. like it makes your blood pressure drugs not work anymore (while you're taking it)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025

***
Good thing I don't drink grapefruit juice, then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:30 PM (wzUl9)

303 297 why did they have to rename "attending physician" into "hospitalist" ??

hospitalist - the way I'm using it - means they are employed by the hospital system, they aren't in private practice.

pre Ocare most docs were in their own practices. that was better. now everyone out here except the very few who don't take insurance are hospitalists.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 04:30 PM (emBoF)

304 294 Here is also a reminder of the (at least) 35 reasons to not get the COVID "vaccine":

18 Reasons I Won't Be Getting a Covid Vaccine

https://bit.ly/3zBStfw

17 More Reasons I Won't Be Getting a Covid Vaccine

https://bit.ly/3Gzd3mu
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:29 PM (P5BPp)

Here’s the only one I need:

It Failed.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 04:31 PM (rQwsY)

305 Nicole Shanahan, who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — just went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used.

“I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset.

Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies.
A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.”
_Nicole Shanahan

more:
https://tinyurl.com/ycy7fa7e

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 04:31 PM (xgeFZ)

306 Good thing I don't drink grapefruit juice, then.

you'd have to swallow the seeds.

it's the SEEDS. you crush the seeds to make the extract which is useful for a bunch of things ... but it really does mess with your metabolism.

just normal juice is fine

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 04:31 PM (emBoF)

307 pre Ocare most docs were in their own practices. that was better. now everyone out here except the very few who don't take insurance are hospitalists.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 04:30 PM (emBoF)

Yep. And they were the small businesses everyone holds as the font of virtue.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 04:32 PM (rQwsY)

308 They can pontificate all they want. At the end of the day they know that the people they love to hate had a better handle on the situation than they did.

What it comes down to is NOT about premature deaths or immune system compromise or even dead kids. It comes down to the self-proclaimed educated make the wrong call, and compromising their own health in the process by taking their own advice and shooting up the clot shot...AND noticing all those great unwashed rubes were better prepared and smarter than they were throughout the conceived crisis.

They hate those who didn't fall for the "vaccine" hype. Because they wish they had done the same. All this chattering (like in this article) is an attempt at rationalizing their stupidity.

Posted by: Orson at December 11, 2025 04:32 PM (dIske)

309 "Why grapefruit juice and not, say, orange juice?"

Uromysitisis.

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at December 11, 2025 04:32 PM (3rtaB)

310 Giving you the flu to build up antibodies. Obviously in a somewhat condensed version. Its not an "antibody" shot.

Or at least how I thought it worked.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal
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If a traditional vaccine, yes. It is not a true sterilizing vaccine like smallpox (permanent or very long protection) because he flu, cold, and now covid viruses change so much each year through mutations that you might get a case but a milder version of it.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 04:32 PM (WDjG6)

311 why did they have to rename "attending physician" into "hospitalist

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Because some doctors have a practic3 where they will see you in the hospital, but also in the office as your primary care doc. Hospitalists only practice in the hospital. They do not become your primary doctor after you are discharged. Also hospitalists are typically employees of the hospital. Not in private practice. At least in the midwest.

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:33 PM (kwWDM)

312 Here’s the only one I need:

It Failed.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 04:31 PM

#9: THE VACCINES DO NOT STOP TRANSMISSION OR INFECTION

Wait, what? Aren't these vaccines supposed to be what we've been waiting for to "go back to normal"? Nope.

Why do you think we're getting all these conflicting messages about needing to practice social distancing and wear masks AFTER we get a vaccine?

The reason is because these vaccines were never designed to stop transmission OR infection.

If you don't believe me, I refer you again to the papers submitted to the FDA I linked to above.

The primary endpoint (what the vaccines are meant to accomplish) is to lower your symptoms.

Sounds like just about every other drug on the market right?

That's it... lowering your symptoms is the big payoff we've been waiting for.

Does that seem completely pointless to anyone but me?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:33 PM (P5BPp)

313 just normal juice is fine
==
Unless you are on certain medications.

Posted by: Trust us!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 04:34 PM (kwWDM)

314 269 Just saw the trailer for Supergirl, that thing is going to tank so hard it's going to probably take out Gunn.
____

I wonder if Supergirl has super boobs and what be their special power.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)

315 Now, in a moment when public health in America is under existential threat

Have I missed something? Is there an Ebola outbreak?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 04:36 PM (jc0TO)

316
I wonder if Supergirl has super boobs and what be their special power.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 11, 2025 04:36 PM (3rtaB)

317 I knew the Covid vaccine was a fake the day they told us (essential workers) to go get it. I simply asked my boss, "If I get the shot, I don't have to wear this stupid mask anymore, right?" When he told me I would have to continue masking, I knew it was all a lie.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 11, 2025 04:37 PM (m0WlR)

318 I wonder if Supergirl has super boobs and what be their special power.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

We all know what the special power of super boobs is.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:37 PM (77rzZ)

319 Noodity

Posted by: Noodist at December 11, 2025 04:38 PM (3rtaB)

320 Super Boobs > Socialist Titties

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 04:38 PM (jc0TO)

321 The possibility -- perhaps the likelihood -- that a handful of vaccine-related deaths occurred and were downplayed by medical authorities does not undermine the fact that COVID vaccination, on the whole, has prevented death on a massive scale.

(1) "handful" of "vaccine"-related deaths? Handful is 5. There have been a LOT more than 5 "vaccine"-related deaths.

(2) It is not a "fact" that the "vaccine" prevented any deaths whatsoever. Considering it did not prevent transmission nor spread of the virus. However, it is an actual fact that the "vaccine" caused harm and death on a large scale.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:39 PM (P5BPp)

322 I wonder if Supergirl has super boobs and what be their special power.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)
___________________

Predominately defensive in nature. If some criminal tries to "motorboat" her, they end up with brain damage from all the Super jiggling.

On a separate note, it is more dangerous than Superman. Harder to control the trajectory of bullets bounding off the chest. Might be a little collateral damage in that regard.

I've given this some thought.

Posted by: Orson at December 11, 2025 04:39 PM (dIske)

323 U nas yest' NOOD. Ilhan Omar.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

324 I knew the Covid vaccine was a fake the day they told us (essential workers) to go get it. I simply asked my boss, "If I get the shot, I don't have to wear this stupid mask anymore, right?" When he told me I would have to continue masking, I knew it was all a lie.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 11, 2025

***
I knew the testing was all theater early on. We were supposed to be tested at random. So I went twice. The second time they left me on my own to take my nose sample. I simply put the q-tip into the jar without probing my proboscis.

Result: Negative. Not "We did not have material for a sample; please come in again." Just "negative."

I stopped going, and there were never any repercussions. There was no enforcement. They just expected us to comply like good little workers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 04:41 PM (wzUl9)

325 well I learned a lot more than I knew about grapefruit seed extract and grapefruit juice!

I guess it's powerful stuff. since I'm willowed I'll stop there - but wow, I won't be drinking too much grapefruit juice I guess!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 04:41 PM (emBoF)

326 Were those children's death because Trump pushed it through at earp speed?
That bastard!! He killed Kenny

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (yyi7Y)

327 (1) "handful" of "vaccine"-related deaths? Handful is 5. There have been a LOT more than 5 "vaccine"-related deaths.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 04:39 PM

Yep. The "booster" killed my brother inlaw. This I will never forgive.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (jc0TO)

328 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 04:42 PM (jc0TO)

329 307 pre Ocare most docs were in their own practices. that was better. now everyone out here except the very few who don't take insurance are hospitalists.
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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My Doc is not pleased. In order to keep privileges at Big Hospital he had to go completely on board. Now, it's as others have stated, the room has a computer instead of my hand written chart. The computer, which is linked to Big Hospital, owns the room. I'm thinking, as soon as he gets everything paid off, he's out of there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 04:44 PM (xgeFZ)

330 England has that Monkey Pox going
Quit butt fking and it will go away

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 04:47 PM (Ia/+0)

331 That's why we have so many foreign doctors, the American brains that would have become doctors have gone into other businesses.

People don't realize the historical, independent mindset of doctors. That's why they called it a practice. It was like a fighter pilot; they received the training then it was their judgement, their call on what it was and how to treat it. It was work in the safe zone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 04:48 PM (xgeFZ)

332 They didn’t die of the COVID vaxx; they died of “suddenly”. You know, perfectly healthy star athlete , in the prime of life, dies “suddenly” on the playing field. You know like it never used to happen, but now does “suddenly”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 11, 2025 04:51 PM (8lgVD)

333 I can't lose more respect for anyone like the way I lost respect for doctors. I was working as an RN when the whole thing blew up in 2020. I ended the best career I ever had over the stupid shot. Worth it. Extremely personally painful and destructive, but worth it.

I think the reason they killed off the J&J vaccine was not really because of the adverse events. It was the one-dose nature of it, making it impossible to hide the adverse events. When people had adverse events from the J&J vax, nobody could use the rhetorical cover they used with the other two-dose vaccines. That cover being that you are not considered "vaccinated" after one dose.
Therefore, "you are not having a reaction to the shot we just fucking gave you, because you haven't been vaccinated yet."
I can't believe the straightfaced cons they pulled.

And no one will be punished. Because culpability is spread all over our society from top to bottom. It's like murdering Julius Caesar, if everybody has a knife in their hand, then nobody can be punished.

Posted by: lauraw at December 11, 2025 05:01 PM (C5EJK)

334 Isn't this grounds for a Mal Practice Lawsuit against Big Pharma?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 11, 2025 06:22 PM (wGqjj)

335 It was good for a season or two, but it just got tedious to me. I can not imagine it being "bingable" at any level. Has binge watching changed what they produce? House was the same story over and over each week -- you can't do that anymore.

I would watch it when it aired and it didn't bother me much until it hit streaming, then seeing how much of an ass House was in a 3 hour stretch made me hate the show when it was just 'meh' before

I think having a week between shows would let you decompress from it and you don't remember how awful he was. When it was binge watching, I began to wonder why would anyone put their careers on the line for him when he's been a complete douche bucket for 3 episodes in a row?

Posted by: Blanco at December 11, 2025 10:36 PM (MHpW9)

Marjorie Taylor-Greene Now Pallin' Around With Terrorist-Supporting Chinese-Funded Antiamerica Group Code Pink

Fox News:

The founder of the left-wing Code Pink organization, Medea Benjamin, hailed outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Wednesday, saying she will "miss" her support for peace.
Many on social media expressed shock and criticism at the odd pairing, while some observers mentioned "horseshoe theory" -- the idea that the extremes on the right and left have more in common with each other than with moderates.
"We visited Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene today to thank her for becoming such a strong anti war voice in congress and tell her we will miss her," Benjamin wrote in a statement on X.
Greene faced heavy backlash for the meeting from conservative commentators who argued it was a betrayal of values.
...
Greene herself explained the meeting in a statement on social media, saying he was committed to her anti-war stance.
...
"I've learned to find bridges with others and that's how we all win and ultimately leads to peace," she added.

I noticed a while ago that some people on the "right" -- the psuedoright, I call it -- seemed to be so happy to finally be able to be frenz with left-wingers that they rushed to adopt their positions. I remember being glad myself that some far-left people like Jimmy Dore seemed kind of based on a lot of issues, like covid vaccinations and Russiagate. It felt good to end the long political war with at least some members of the left.

But then I noticed that people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly weren't just happy to hear Glenn Greenwald and Anna Kasparian agreeing with some rightist positions. They decided to return the favor and begin endorsing some extremist left-wing opinions themselves, like blaming Israel for Hamas' 10/7 massacre and generally adopting the Islamofascist talking point that Islam is a religion of peace and the only group making trouble between Christians and Muslims are, get this, The Jews.

Glenn Greenwald is apparently so charismatic that he honeytrapped Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson. He honeydicked them.

They've literally all adopted the exact positions held by the far left a year after 9/11. Except they don't just Blame America First, they Blame Israel First, and Blame America Second.

Other than that: Identical.

In their rush to oppose every part of neoconservativism, they've now made themselves enemies of foundational basic conservatism as well.

This isn't the far right, it's the far left.

We visited Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene today to thank her for becoming such a strong anti war voice in congress and tell her we will miss her. pic.twitter.com/KW87d4vPBK
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) December 10, 2025

And here is @mtgreenee pictured hanging out with an org that mocks our troops at military parades with fake caskets. Unbelievable. https://t.co/iEqdG0YHZa
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) December 11, 2025

AG
@AGHamilton29

MTG promoting Code Pink and attacking Republicans.
Candace trying to destroy TPUSA.
Tucker suggesting we should abandon all our current allies and instead prioritize siding with Islamist slave states and anti-American dictators.
All coordinating together and promoting each other.
At some point you have to realize these people aren’t on your side. They snuck into the tent are trying to tear it down from the inside. Only question is if you let them.

Tucker is coming home to the left. He will be marching with Code Pink in 2026. https://t.co/m08hQBpg43
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) December 11, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:25 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

2 And yet another politician sells us out.........

this is getting old.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Wonkity eyed theater kid freak.

Been sick of this halfwit since she first got national prominence.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:28 PM (Vq1pX)

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at December 11, 2025 02:28 PM (e2TX7)

5 As a respected commenter said on the other thread about MTG, "She always looked like an undercooked rodent fetus, to me."

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 02:29 PM (g47mK)

6 Where is everybody? Three noods were called on the last thread.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

7 Thanks for reminding me, Ace, that I can't f*cking STAND Seth Rogen.

Appreciated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

8 How long do you properly cook a rodent fetus, anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

9 Tucker started out in TV on CNN and MSNBC. It looks like he's returning to his roots

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 11, 2025 02:30 PM (YpHxX)

10 I never liked MTG or Boebert either. Nancy Mace is another with off-putting behavior.

Posted by: Joyenz at December 11, 2025 02:30 PM (2F0/Y)

11 There is no horseshoe

There is liberty, and there is not liberty.

There is sanity, and there is not sanity.

Not liberty always looks like not liberty.

Not sanity always looks like not sanity.

The horseshoe is a lie and has always been a lie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:30 PM (Vq1pX)

12 Watched the first hour of three of Tucker on Theo von. How people listen to podcasts is beyond me.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (uQzkA)

13 It was obvious she gave up MAGA

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (Ia/+0)

14 Carlson is a coward to go after DJT who is promoting the policies that he loathes, so he is lashing out at ..people with Jews names. But don't call him an antisemite!!11

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (g47mK)

15 Greene has cast her lot with the worst of the Left. It’s over for her, with us.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (pDt9x)

16 Meh. Some people who espoused conservative positions felt left out from the cool kids. It's a big bag of emotions. They never held actual moral positions on anything, they just went along to get along.

Same way Germany ended up all in on gassing the Jews.

Very few spines, just a lot of going with the flow, like a spawned out and rotting salmon.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (6Bc88)

17 Is Code Pink Cindy Sheehan's group?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

18 I want someone to come up to me and offer me millions to change my talking points.

That's got to be fun, since so many appear to be doing it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Why do they all look like lesbians?

Oh....

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (Pkr1Y)

20 4

Posted by:
at December 11, 2025 02:28 PM (e2TX7)

Wow.....that seems wild.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

21 And yet another politician sells us out.........

this is getting old.

This is another reminder to NEVER trust politicians. Yes, that includes Trump.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (Riz8t)

22 Tucker started out in TV on CNN and MSNBC. It looks like he's returning to his roots

==

PBS!! he was always, at most , left of center.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (g47mK)

23 Jfc, Fucker Carlson is a disgrace. At this point, I can only surmise that Keith Olberman carved him up Silence of the Lambs style and is wearing him around as a skinsuit.

Who on the right listens to his show at this point? I am genuinely perplexed by this.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (9iYO8)

24 The mind boggles.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (wVcYX)

25 Does MTG like it in the culo?

Posted by: Pitbull, Another No Talent Hack at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (FGMmt)

26 And who names their kid Medea? Medea was a monster who killed her own kids.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

27 So this group clung to Trump when they thought he was winning and now maybe they are deserting because they believe they'll get more from the other side ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (VE6XX)

28 Everybody knows you gotta sous vide a rodent fetus.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 02:33 PM (Q+gd/)

29 Watched the first hour of three of Tucker on Theo von. How people listen to podcasts is beyond me.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (uQzkA)

CutJibNewsletter hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

30 Attention w---- not getting paid enough finds a richer lode, just a different one than Tucker

Posted by: Hal Dall at December 11, 2025 02:33 PM (V0M+7)

31 they have no actual beliefs, you know.

other than, that they themselves are Super Special and ought to be Elite.

they got mad to be left out, I think.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 02:33 PM (emBoF)

32 Jfc, F***er Carlson is a disgrace. At this point, I can only surmise that Keith Olberman carved him up Silence of the Lambs style and is wearing him around as a skinsuit.

Who on the right listens to his show at this point? I am genuinely perplexed by this.

I know, right?

Posted by: Matt Drudge at December 11, 2025 02:33 PM (Riz8t)

33 Who has 3 fkng hours to watch anything ?!

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 02:33 PM (g47mK)

34 I'm happy to say that I wrote MTG off way back when she was posting her workout routines on Twitter. I'm a schlub, but her "pull-ups" looked ridiculous even to me.

She was basically an older, divorced version of those bitches who film themselves in public gyms.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 11, 2025 02:34 PM (Dg7ng)

35 Someone should check and see if someone took away French, Goldberg, and Frum's rice bowls and instead gave them to MTG and Tucker

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:34 PM (sKqQm)

36 Very few spines, just a lot of going with the flow, like a spawned out and rotting salmon.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (6Bc8

I think a lot of that is just a polite fiction we tell ourselves to ease the guilt of leaving any of those kraut motherfuckers still breathing in 1946.

They went all in because they were all in. It was the perfectly natural and obvious course of action for them.

People outta stop saying the word "genocide" like it's automatically a bad thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:34 PM (Vq1pX)

37 Tucker and MTG are both very stupid people.

But I don't understand Megyn Kelly. She seemed OK. Of course, I have not listened to her in a while so I don't know what she is actually saying now.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 02:34 PM (Pkr1Y)

38 It's a big club and real conservatives ain't in it.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 02:34 PM (xvV+O)

39 Apparently the adulation of the MAGA crowd was not enough to hold these turncoats. Of course, once they turn, nobody will trust them for any purpose whatsoever. They will be used and tossed aside.

Did NOBODY read about Benedict Arnold?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 02:34 PM (6Bc88)

40 26 And who names their kid Medea? Medea was a monster who killed her own kids.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

Probably a lot of overlap between Code Pink's membership and NARAL membership.

Posted by: They do love killing kids, especially their own at December 11, 2025 02:34 PM (TbWk/)

41 13 It was obvious she gave up MAGA
Posted by: Skip

Politicians are like taxis, another one will always be coming along. MTG is a has been by choice and will fade in the fever swamps of political irrelevance soon. But, she will be trotted out from time to time by the left as a captured dhimmi bowing to her new masters.

At the end of the day, she was as loyal to MAGA and her constituents that elected her as she was to her husband that she divorced.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:35 PM (WDjG6)

42 Politicians are useful, useless, or harmful. That’s all they are to me. I don’t have a personal relationship with a one of them.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:35 PM (pDt9x)

43
This is another reminder to NEVER trust politicians. Yes, that includes Trump.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (Riz8t)

Trump fast-tracked the 'vaccine' knowing FULL WELL it wasn't necessary and covid was a flu that a majority of everyone would get through it just fine.

Meanwhile, it's MURDERING MILLIONS around the world.

I find that VERY hard to forgive.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

44 HAIL GENOCIDE

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=q0d1_9O00s4

Posted by: GWAR at December 11, 2025 02:35 PM (IaZ7c)

45 I never liked MTG or Boebert either. Nancy Mace is another with off-putting behavior.
Posted by: Joyenz

I can see MTG, Boebert, and Mace as the new faces of The View in 2026 as their fake conservatives.

Posted by: Cheri at December 11, 2025 02:35 PM (oiNtH)

46 Bastards to the left of me, grifters to the right...

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 02:36 PM (pyM1O)

47 My recap of Tucker's old fox show: Super important life or death issue gets 5 minute segment. Next.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 11, 2025 02:36 PM (cS1cw)

48 Why do they all look like lesbians?

Oh....
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 02:31 PM (Pkr1Y)

Steven Tyler, Elton John, and Ken Burns walk into a lesbian bar . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2025 02:36 PM (wVcYX)

49 10/7 was the most successful progrom in modern history.

The jihadis murdered and raped their way to a diplomatic victory.

Its insane.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:36 PM (sKqQm)

50 Wasn't MTG banging McCarthy who lived with that liberal homo f*ck?

Yeah...that's stable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

51 GASSSSSS HER

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 11, 2025 02:37 PM (Kt19C)

52
Those Code Pinkos look like a bunch of hippies with desiccated pooters and boobs that hang off their chests like a pair of unwashed gym socks. You'd need a Home Depot pail of AstroGlide to bang one of them. Assuming that you could stand the BO stench.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 02:37 PM (y9nCu)

53 David Strom has a fantastic opinion piece out on this topic today; how so many in the public eye that we thought we could trust have jumped from right to far left almost overnight.

He also makes a good case that Tucker is by far the most dangerous, because he's an intelligent man, not a hormonally driven radical chatty Kathy like MTG.
"Tucker regularly uses his platform now to promote absolutist governments and has taken to praising Sharia law. He seems enamored with people like Andrew Tate, who himself converted to Islam at least partly based on his contempt for women, and of course, he gives much more favorable treatment to Nick Fuentes, who loves Stalin and Hitler, than to Ted Cruz, whom he hates with a passion. Fuentes, too, is on a Jihad against women and argues that Islam is right about women. "

Tucker is no longer "America First" - he is Qatar First. He is now actively trying to tear down everything Trump is trying to do, from the inside. I mark him as one of the most dangerous men to America alive today

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 02:37 PM (uWKK8)

54
Steven Tyler, Elton John, and Ken Burns walk into a lesbian bar . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2025 02:36 PM (wVcYX)

Carrot Top barges in and yells "KONNICHIWA BITCHES!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

55 Does MTG like it in the culo?

Posted by: Pitbull, Another No Talent Hack
==

She did with me and then she was good only for me too..... POOP ON!

Posted by: Triumph the Insult Comedian at December 11, 2025 02:37 PM (xvV+O)

56 So besides getting felt up in a movie theater what is the problem with Boebert?

Not that I'd personally hold that against her.

Err, I should probably fix that phrasing

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

57 How do they differ from common street whores? They'll serve anyone so long as there's a payout for them.

Posted by: Dave's not here at December 11, 2025 02:38 PM (kp5iD)

58 MTG and Tucker
Posted by: 18-1

More money for shilling for Muzzies overseas. Notably the three you listed before are Jews which Muzzies don't like giving money to. They have to scrape by with what Pierre Omidyar will pay (Goldberg, David Fwench, and Krystol) or Frum shilling for Mrs. Steve Jobs who loves money, chicoms, and Ghislaine Maxwell's friendship back in the day.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:38 PM (WDjG6)

59 Those Code Pinkos look like a bunch of hippies with desiccated pooters and boobs that hang off their chests like a pair of unwashed gym socks. You'd need a Home Depot pail of AstroGlide to bang one of them. Assuming that you could stand the BO stench.

Can they take their teeth out?

Posted by: Bill Clinton, Rapist at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (FGMmt)

60 That magic pillow guy will save us, yall. That's the type candidate we get. Skeletons all the way down.

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (uQzkA)

61 So besides getting felt up in a movie theater what is the problem with Boebert?

Not that I'd personally hold that against her.

Err, I should probably fix that phrasing
Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

I mean, other than that move showing incredibly poor judgement?

Not sure......Is she the one that's claiming to have been raped and was going to post nudes because of it?

It seems we have some instability in the party......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

62 Huh. I had never seen a picture of this MTG person.

Now, I'm no beauty. I'm a fat old broad who is trying to lose weight and hoping to get my BP and blood sugar back in normal range. And praying that the lung scan comes back clean.
I'm a work in progress.
So I rarely comment on another woman's looks.

This bitch is ugly as hell.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (2J/Lj)

63 How do they differ from common street whores? They'll serve anyone so long as there's a payout for them.

The system knows how to get people to betray whatever principles they may have had. Start small. But keep getting them to make "compromises" until, for example, you have Goldberg endorsing the woman for president who wanted to murder his mother

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (sKqQm)

64 Sadly, politics attracts a lot of grifters.

Which is what happens when you concentrate a lot of money on a place where most people don't really pay attention.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (zjgNU)

65 Albanese looks exactly like I'd imagined

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (D+mpw)

66 How do they differ from common street whores? They'll serve anyone so long as there's a payout for them.
Posted by: Dave's

$20,000, same as in town.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

67 Both Putin and the Chinese communists would really like it if the US completely gave up on foreign wars and possibly had a civil one.
When Putin's oligarchs advertised on Facebook for Trump and against Clinton, this wasn't just because they were really, really righteous Christians and patriots. They wanted to get someone like Tucker Carlson.
Of course they are unhappy with Trump. Trump is making the US stronger, not weaker, and is still involved abroad, now also with Venezuela. This bodes badly for Putin and the Chinese communists' goals.

Posted by: PG at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (1GUBr)

68 Tucker is no longer "America First" - he is Qatar First. He is now actively trying to tear down everything Trump is trying to do, from the inside. I mark him as one of the most dangerous men to America alive today
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 02:37 PM (uWKK

He might be, if anybody was actually listening to him any more.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 02:40 PM (6Bc88)

69 I always liked Tucker when he was a buzzed boat shoed brohemian and I hope he comes back to his roots.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 11, 2025 02:40 PM (GPa4z)

70 ChatGTP initial release taught me three things.

1. AI was further along at connection words than I had expected.

2. It is really easy to look intelligent if you are good at connection the right words.

3. The will never allow it to reflect the truth because if it did, the entire world of lies would collapse.

That second point is key though. I think Tucker and MTG are just really good at looking coherent. They have both revealed that they are stupid grifters who are very practiced at staying the right things to get attention.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 02:40 PM (Pkr1Y)

71 Money talks. Truth then walks. I don't have nor ever will have a social media account.

MTG is a coarse old fame hag and I never liked her. Not that this is important, only to say that I can spot a fake a million miles away.Code Pink, eh? What's next? Antifa? BLM? MTG made her $20 million in Congress and quit when she got her pension for life.

Same with Tucker and his goofy giggle.Send me your clicks!!! Everyone is a fag! Including, possibly, Tucker?

I admit to liking Megan again, after her betrayal in 2016. A bit of a loss but I'll get over it.

I never much liked Bug-eyed Owens, the click-me- for $ whore. But thought she was smart and well spoken in the past. Now I think she's batsh*t insane.

I have never "followed" anyone but Christ, and He does not have a social media account, but He does keep track of those who love Him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (WONhk)

72 Hard for Carlson to walk back what he’s done.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (pDt9x)

73 35 Someone should check and see if someone took away French, Goldberg, and Frum's rice bowls and instead gave them to MTG and Tucker
Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:34 PM (sKqQm)

The old paymasters have faded away. The new Paymasters, Qatar, Iran, and the Cartels are offering way more money than the old paymasters ever dreamed of paying out.
Of course with MTG courting Code Pink she's establishing a direct financial lifeline to the CCP, through Neville Singh.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (uWKK8)

74 Not sure......Is she the one that's claiming to have been raped and was going to post nudes because of it?

That's Mace. And no it makes no sense

But back to Boebert one thing I would caution here though in all seriousness, people do all sorts of dumb, silly things. If you demand that Republican officeholders can never do that you are going to end up with very few Republican office holders.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

75 This bitch is ugly as hell.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:39 PM (2J/Lj)

Someone can be homely as hell, but still be beautiful. It comes from inside, not outside. You can read crazy on faces, you can likewise read debauchery, and all the other outrageous life behaviors on many faces.

Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (6Bc88)

76 Tucker is no longer "America First" - he is Qatar First. He is now actively trying to tear down everything Trump is trying to do, from the inside. I mark him as one of the most dangerous men to America alive today
Posted by: Tom Servo
======
And yet, such people, by their very obvious shilling, thus reduce their very usefulness in our political system. I want Tucker to keep on screwing that chicken as I do other loathsome types. The silent ones are the ones that you have to watch for a stealthy stab in the back.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (WDjG6)

77 Steven Tyler, Elton John, and Ken Burns walk into a lesbian bar . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet

Carrot Top barges in and yells "KONNICHIWA BITCHES!!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Checks out. Konnichiwa is a Japanese greeting, commonly used between 10 am and 6 pm.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2025 02:42 PM (wVcYX)

78 When a Code Pink group coughs a Sahara Dust storm comes out their the pooters.

Posted by: Triumph the Insult Comedian at December 11, 2025 02:42 PM (xvV+O)

79 Lots of personality disorders on display.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 11, 2025 02:42 PM (rJ48h)

80 Sorry for going ot, but DR. thinks he nailed and killed all the Renal tumor!

God answers prayers!

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (LX4y3)

81 I'm sick of these little cult-lets of personality that are completely devoid of personality.

You don't matter, meatbags. This isn't about you. You get picked to do a job. You do the job. You shut your stupid mouth, pocket a tidy but not monstrously large amount of the wheel-grease. Then you shut up more, and go away.

I'm sick of every jackoff with a moc pin acting like they're a fucking movie star. It isn't actually Hollywood For Ugly People, assholes. We only say that kind of stuff to mock you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (Vq1pX)

82 Stay away from the fishberger.

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (o2ZRX)

83
And who names their kid Medea? Medea was a monster who killed her own kids.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

The lesbo gap-lapper contingent are also big into Lilith....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (y9nCu)

84 Tucker actually campaigned with Trump and I believe spoke at Kirks memorial... That last one I might be wrong on but I thought he did...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (VE6XX)

85 Sorry for going ot, but DR. thinks he nailed and killed all the Renal tumor!

God answers prayers!
Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (LX4y3)

That's always a topic that is on topic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (Vq1pX)

86 "At some point you have to realize these people aren't on your side."

The sooner you realize they are backstabbing 'tards the better.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (qZdIZ)

Posted by:
at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (e2TX7)

88 All those ladies need to get laid.

I'm starting a go fund me to help these ladies.

If i made a commercial, it would be too sad but hornifying.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (EyfuW)

89 80 Sorry for going ot, but DR. thinks he nailed and killed all the Renal tumor!

God answers prayers!
Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (LX4y3)

Miracles are NEVER off topic. So glad to hear.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (6Bc88)

90 In their rush to oppose every part of neoconservativism, they've now made themselves enemies of foundational basic conservatism as well.

===

Exactly. They reject basic conservatism, and it contorts them to hear "Judeo-Christian" , because of the Judeo portion. So they go en masse against Evangelicals, lose their collective shite over "Christian Zionism", and I guess Dispensationalism, because they were raised to believe by their filthy, backward parents and grandparents that the Church erased and replaced the Jews and their Covenant with God. Total heresy, rejected by the Catholic church even, but preached in some quarters by "the enemy".

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (g47mK)

91 Excellent news, Bete!

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

92 80 Sorry for going ot, but DR. thinks he nailed and killed all the Renal tumor!

God answers prayers!
Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (LX4y3)

Always time for good news !

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (VE6XX)

93 That last one I might be wrong on but I thought he did...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (VE6XX)

Didn't he make some kind of terrible joke that went over like a fart at a funeral?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:45 PM (Vq1pX)

94 MTG has an abnormally large face.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 02:45 PM (XvL8K)

95 Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (6Bc8

My grandma used it say it just like that! Thanks.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:45 PM (2J/Lj)

96 Congrats Bete!!!

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 02:45 PM (xvV+O)

97 You can read crazy on faces, you can likewise read debauchery, and all the other outrageous life behaviors on many faces.

And yet so many of these people gather followings, collect toadies, have people voluntarily making special pleadings for them, and get away with every last bit of evil, degeneracy, sickness, filth, treason, and poison. It's truly amazing to watch, in a train wreck kind of way.

Posted by: Doesn't do much for faith in humanity at December 11, 2025 02:45 PM (TbWk/)

98 93 That last one I might be wrong on but I thought he did...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (VE6XX)

Didn't he make some kind of terrible joke that went over like a fart at a funeral?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:45 PM (Vq1pX)

Yes.. It was cringe worthy

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 02:46 PM (VE6XX)

99 93 Something like that. Tucker is going all Northburor church

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 02:46 PM (LX4y3)

100 84 Tucker actually campaigned with Trump and I believe spoke at Kirks memorial... That last one I might be wrong on but I thought he did...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (VE6XX)

And yet on one of his most recent podcasts, talking to a muslim, Tucker went on and on about how much he personally hated Christians (like Charlie Kirk) who supported Israel and said they believed in Zionism.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 02:46 PM (uWKK8)

101 Tucker actually campaigned with Trump and I believe spoke at Kirks memorial... That last one I might be wrong on but I thought he did...
Posted by: It's me donna

He did, but a lot of folks thought he ruined it by making some comment that was subtly anti-Jewish. I didn't watch it myself, so I'm unclear on what he said.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

102 80 Sorry for going ot, but DR. thinks he nailed and killed all the Renal tumor!

God answers prayers!
Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (LX4y3)

No kidneying?! Great news!

Posted by: Nice to get good news for a change at December 11, 2025 02:46 PM (TbWk/)

103 @26 Medea Benjamin took that first name in college. She thought Medea was forced to act by the patriarchy. Used to hang around this county. Nut job.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 02:46 PM (D+mpw)

104 Hard for Carlson to walk back what he’s done.
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (pDt9x)

he can't, he is planning a new life in Qatar. will probably move/headquarter his flimsy "network" there too.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 02:46 PM (g47mK)

105 "I've learned to find bridges with others and that's how we all win and ultimately leads to peace," she added.

Are you sure that isn't a pier?

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 02:47 PM (aZ9eR)

106 The problem with neo-conservativism is that we deployed US assets for no benefit with no consideration whatsoever of the lives of American servicemen.

The problem isn't a more general notion that America used force.

Trump, at least so far, has been deploying American resources in a much more thoughtful way. I don't mind that he is sinking VZ drug boats. I will mind if he approaches this Shrub style and sends tens of thousands of GIs to get shot by VZ guerillas with no plan to win

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:47 PM (sKqQm)

107 Any Dem gettin' HoneyDicked Ham for Kwanzaa?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 02:47 PM (ynpvh)

108 Their entire world is the world of grift.

This is where the Somali fraud stands out -- it was allowed and ignored because everyone in power has a grift, and this was just theirs. Omar went from debt to $30 million in 4 years thanks to that.

So people like MTG and Tucker, they see the grift and they don't think "this is bad, I am going to be different," they see it and think "Where can I get some of that?"

The answer for them was Qatar and China. Big deal they are now traitors -- everyone in DC is. They stay up nights thinking about other people getting rich, they don't have to to think of patriotism or the future of our society.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (Pkr1Y)

109 That last one I might be wrong on but I thought he did...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 02:44 PM (VE6XX)

He did and it was cringe, as the kids say these days.

Posted by: Didn't honor Charlie and embarassed himself at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (TbWk/)

110 Diversity is our STRENGTH!

Code Pink - "Uhhhh, yeah. Yeah... diversity..."

Posted by: Croaker at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (+BcZI)

111 Not a blue hair among them.

Huh. I'd have bet actual money against that.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (pIfcn)

112 "I've learned to find bridges with others and that's how we all win and ultimately leads to peace," she added.

Are you sure that isn't a pier?

Posted by: t-bird
==

A short pier and a long walk to peace.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (xvV+O)

113 76 Tucker is no longer "America First" - he is Qatar First. He is now actively trying to tear down everything Trump is trying to do, from the inside. I mark him as one of the most dangerous men to America alive today
Posted by: Tom Servo
======
And yet, such people, by their very obvious shilling, thus reduce their very usefulness in our political system. I want Tucker to keep on screwing that chicken as I do other loathsome types. The silent ones are the ones that you have to watch for a stealthy stab in the back.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (WDjG6)

Exactly - Tucker, Candace, and MTG all gave themselves up very recently and we now know...but you know our Speaker of the House has 50 more silent traitors he's dealing with. We need to out them, like MTG and Massie, as we also out our press grifters...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (tOcjL)

114 Some people have taken to calling Tucker, Fuentes, Owens, et al, "Woke Right". I understand the "woke" part, but if they are advocating lefty positions, where does the "right" part come in?

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (hkwnh)

115 It seems we have some instability in the party......
Posted by: Sponge
=====
Mace is running for SC governor and vacating her house seat. Given SC survived Nikki, they will probably survive Mace too.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (WDjG6)

116 The lesbo gap-lapper contingent are also big into Lilith....

I hate the mere sound of that name

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (sKqQm)

117 105 "I've learned to find bridges with others and that's how we all win and ultimately leads to peace," she added.

Hey Margie.. I don't remember them going after Biden when he killed those 13 service members

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (VE6XX)

118 The silent ones are the ones that you have to watch for a stealthy stab in the back.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:41 PM (WDjG6)

I mean i can't really see tom sowell coming out one day and being all "yeah that Hitler weren't such a bad guy".

It's the ones whose fame is not commensurate with their talent who seem to wind up on this road.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (Vq1pX)

119 Is this an approved font?

Posted by: torabora at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (wKe4Y)

120 I've learned to find bridges with others and that's how we all win and ultimately leads to peace," she added.

So they all live under the same bridge? Is that what she means?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:49 PM (2J/Lj)

121 Supporting God's choosen people is a bad thing. Pretty sure I remember something about "Bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you."

But I guess that Guy fell for Jewish propaganda, eh TC?

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 02:49 PM (LX4y3)

122 119 Is this an approved font?

Posted by: torabora at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (wKe4Y)

Maybe a Comic Sans...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (ynpvh)

123 If Israel was performing "mass murder" in Gaza, why are there any Gazans left alive?

None of these assholes has an answer to that.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (gDhA9)

124 At least nobody speaks about Candace seriously anymore, as she's now established herself as the Jasmine Crockett of the woke right.

DataRepublican on X dug down, the way she is so good at, and found that a large portion of Fuentes online "support" actually was coming from large bot farms in India and Nigeria.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (uWKK8)

125 Tucker needs to drop the sativa and go back to indica. Then he will come to his senses and come rejoin the fold as Trump's prodigal son.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (GPa4z)

126 but if they are advocating lefty positions, where does the "right" part come in?
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (hkwnh)

Look, are you going to buy the jersey and cheer for the home team we created for you, or not, buddy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (Vq1pX)

127 Some people have taken to calling Tucker, Fuentes, Owens, et al, "Woke Right". I understand the "woke" part, but if they are advocating lefty positions, where does the "right" part come in?

==

Woke Reich.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (g47mK)

128 114 Some people have taken to calling Tucker, Fuentes, Owens, et al, "Woke Right". I understand the "woke" part, but if they are advocating lefty positions, where does the "right" part come in?
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (hkwnh)

It doesn't. It's what leftist journo-fags and influencerfags are saying to make the public believe they are the standard-bearers for the "right" in America.

Posted by: It's just more propaganda at December 11, 2025 02:51 PM (TbWk/)

129 but you know our Speaker of the House has 50 more silent traitors he's dealing with. We need to out them, like MTG and Massie, as we also out our press grifters...
Posted by: Nova Local
=====
Very true. And Lara refusing to stay at the RNC to fix it internally and Whately leaving to run for Senate, leaves the RNC adrift before crucial midterms.

They have to switch to GOTV from their old mass media campaigns and that requires wholesale replacement of campaign consultants as the current ones apparently don't know anything about running GOTV operations.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:51 PM (WDjG6)

130 So Qatar is paying people for PR. Who pays the other side of that? Anyone? Israel? Nobody? Us? Is China up to their tits in this?

Posted by: NCKate at December 11, 2025 02:51 PM (uQzkA)

131 Clay and Buck were talking about Jasmine Crocket is running for Senate primary to lose to the R in TX , and then possibly will run for POTUS in the D primary mostly because she wants to get on the View or similar, and running for higher office raises her profilee plus all that sweet campaign cash. Being on TV is much better pay than a mere congress critter gets.

So I wonder if some of these over the top female R HOR pols are having similar calculus. 'maybe its time to try to get a TV job as the *convervative* voice?'

I'm used to being disappointed by R congress critters. I still vote for them, cuz even if all I get out of it if they win is some sweet liberal tears, I'll take that.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 11, 2025 02:51 PM (hhkIi)

132 125 Tucker needs to drop the sativa and go back to indica. Then he will come to his senses and come rejoin the fold as Trump's prodigal son.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (GPa4z)

You say that as if we want him back in the fold.
Screw him, MTG and all of their ilk.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 11, 2025 02:51 PM (N39Ws)

133 What is Code Pink's stance on the war between Russia and Ukraine? Send US money and troops, or no?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (Dv3i1)

134 123 If Israel was performing "mass murder" in Gaza, why are there any Gazans left alive?

None of these assholes has an answer to that.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (gDhA9)

Their numbers HAVE lessened due to Hamas killing their Gazans...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)

135 I thought this broad was all in on MAGA

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (ZxPkt)

136 marjorie green with code pink bad

mike huckabee with jonathan pollard, nothing to see here

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (7neCS)

137 Let's give Crenshaw another chance too.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (cS1cw)

138 I think Tucker is going undercover so he can expose The Deep State and their connection to the moslems to undermine the USA.

Posted by: P Diddy at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (FGMmt)

139 DR. thinks he nailed and killed all the Renal tumor!

God answers prayers!
Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (LX4y3)

Glory be to God.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

140 Tucker actually campaigned with Trump and I believe spoke at Kirks memorial... That last one I might be wrong on but I thought he did...
Posted by: It's me donna

---
His speech at Charlie Kirk's memorial was just bizarre. There was some weird comment about hummus.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (6p0Jv)

141 I back Israel on the basis of their being a steadfast, staunch ally of our country since their inception. Vanishingly few countries have stood by us like they have. Period.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (pDt9x)

142 What if everybody started referring to her simply as Marjorie Green?

Posted by: I gotta ask at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (Ij7mQ)

143 134 123 If Israel was performing "mass murder" in Gaza, why are there any Gazans left alive?

None of these assholes has an answer to that.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (gDhA9)

Their numbers HAVE lessened due to Hamas killing their Gazans...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)

Interesting how the prog media is dead silent about that.

Posted by: And by interesting I mean totally predictable at December 11, 2025 02:53 PM (TbWk/)

144 TPUSA will dispense with Owens fairly soon, they set the date to tear down all her lies live on air. Invited her, and of course after saying that she will be ready any time any place, said that particular date and place are not possible!11! Rotten cvnt.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 02:53 PM (g47mK)

145 If Tucker wants to visit Israel, the Israelis should deny him a visa. And tell him to hitch a ride with the next convoy to try to deliver "aid" to Gaza.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Have We Considered the Virtues of Bodoni? at December 11, 2025 02:53 PM (L3gF5)

146 Is nookie involved? I'm also wondering if MTG is a fan of shrooms.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 11, 2025 02:53 PM (rhY8p)

147 What if everybody started referring to her simply as Marjorie Green?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (Ij7mQ)

I prefer Empty G.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:53 PM (Vq1pX)

148 DataRepublican on X dug down, the way she is so good at, and found that a large portion of Fuentes online "support" actually was coming from large bot farms in India and Nigeria.
Posted by: Tom Servo

She was retweeting work that others had done, I cited and linked the original report a couple of days ago.

"A recent report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) at Rutgers University reveals that Nick Fuentes's surge in online visibility on X (formerly Twitter) has been significantly driven by engagement from foreign accounts, particularly those linked to "low-cost engagement farms" in countries such as India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia, and Indonesia." AI summary of report.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:53 PM (WDjG6)

149 But then I noticed that people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly...

I always found your...trust?...of Kelly strange. I thought it was pretty clear she was, at best, a rudderless grifter, and at worst a moderate Lefty or Establishment shill realizing she couldn't break into mainstream media, and would have to go back to her Fox News/fool the old rubes roots.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 11, 2025 02:54 PM (JCZqz)

150 132 125 Tucker needs to drop the sativa and go back to indica. Then he will come to his senses and come rejoin the fold as Trump's prodigal son.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 11, 2025 02:50 PM (GPa4z)

You say that as if we want him back in the fold.
Screw him, MTG and all of their ilk.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 11, 2025 02:51 PM (N39Ws)

I'll always take his vote...I just need to hear from him or have him host anymore...making him irrelevant doesn't mean I'd want him actually casting D votes (although he probably does - who are we kidding?)

Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 02:54 PM (tOcjL)

151 Woke is like trans. An adjective letting you know the following work is a massive lie and the truth is opposite.

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 02:54 PM (LX4y3)

152 Madge Greene.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:54 PM (pDt9x)

153 "congress critters"

It gets cuter everytime I read it.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (cS1cw)

154 Silly little twat had to buy his own damn bots?

Haaaaaa, how pathetic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (Vq1pX)

155 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (Ij7mQ)

156 I often think Congressman have a limited shelf life for Conservatives before they become Swamp Creatures

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (Ia/+0)

157 135 I thought this broad was all in on MAGA
Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (ZxPkt)

MAGA grifter...

We should have learned from the Tea Party grifters...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (tOcjL)

158 If Tucker wants to visit Israel, the Israelis should deny him a visa. And tell him to hitch a ride with the next convoy to try to deliver "aid" to Gaza.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

I bet, if he went back to wearing a bow tie, he could land Greta.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

159 Majorie Taylor Who?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Have We Considered the Virtues of Bodoni? at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (L3gF5)

160 What percentage of the anti-Israeli right is actually living in Islamabad?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (sKqQm)

161 149 But then I noticed that people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly...

I always found your...trust?...of Kelly strange. I thought it was pretty clear she was, at best, a rudderless grifter, and at worst a moderate Lefty or Establishment shill realizing she couldn't break into mainstream media, and would have to go back to her Fox News/fool the old rubes roots.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 11, 2025 02:54 PM (JCZqz)

When she is useful, she is useful. I have no interest in her personally.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (pDt9x)

162 Tucker actually campaigned with Trump and I believe spoke at Kirks memorial... That last one I might be wrong on but I thought he did...
Posted by: It's me donna

He did. I watched the entire memorial and when Tucker got up to speak, I got up to do dishes in the kitchen because I couldn't bear to hear what he had to say. I could still hear the TV somewhat from the kitchen and could clearly hear his asinine giggle/laugh and it made me sick. I returned only when I could tell it was a new speaker.

Posted by: Cheri at December 11, 2025 02:55 PM (oiNtH)

163 147 What if everybody started referring to her simply as Marjorie Green?
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 11, 2025 02:52 PM (Ij7mQ)

I prefer Empty G.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:53 PM (Vq1pX)

::: Golf Clap :::
ISWYDT...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 02:56 PM (ynpvh)

164 114 Some people have taken to calling Tucker, Fuentes, Owens, et al, "Woke Right". I understand the "woke" part, but if they are advocating lefty positions, where does the "right" part come in?
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 11, 2025 02:48 PM (hkwnh)

the best answer yet, he explains it pretty clearly:

https://tinyurl.com/3v4dtysd

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 02:56 PM (uWKK8)

165 I'm used to being disappointed by R congress critters. I still vote for them, cuz even if all I get out of it if they win is some sweet liberal tears, I'll take that.
Posted by: PaleRider

It sucks to always have to choose the lesser of two evils but voting for greater evil is not an option.

Those that advocate burning it all down so that things can be built up again seem to forget the one tiny little thing--there is no guarantee that any future government will be better that the current regime. In history, most are usually worse until you get back some facsimile of the old regime or you go through three generations of misery in order for the new awful regime to collapse.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:57 PM (WDjG6)

166 Kelly found a good groove delivering stemwinders. She has a knack for it.

But she'll wind stem for whoever or whatever she needs to based on today's market prices.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:57 PM (Vq1pX)

167 *146 Is nookie involved? I'm also wondering if MTG is a fan of shrooms.*

The Paolo, he will, how you say, try anything once.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 11, 2025 02:57 PM (Ij7mQ)

168 Israel is the only place where Islamonazis were pushed back and experienced battlefield and societal defeat. The only place in the ME where they are NOT in control. Not on London or Paris, or NY! - in Jerusalem. So of course muslim brotherhood is actively gaslighting the online space, paying off useful idiots to get rid of Israel, from the river to the sea, etc. They consider the country a blight on their total domination of the ME. Lebanon not to long ago was majority Christian.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 02:57 PM (g47mK)

169 Tucker: The Man and His Scheme

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 11, 2025 02:58 PM (pyM1O)

170 167 *146 Is nookie involved? I'm also wondering if MTG is a fan of shrooms.*

The Paolo, he will, how you say, try anything once.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 11, 2025 02:57 PM (Ij7mQ)

Well, Hello Big Boy!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 11, 2025 02:58 PM (ynpvh)

171 Damn, this MTG chick really is out of her fucking mind.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 02:58 PM (snZF9)

172 Israel is the only place where Islamonazis were pushed back and experienced battlefield and societal defeat. The only place in the ME where they are NOT in control. Not on London or Paris, or NY! - in Jerusalem. So of course muslim brotherhood is actively gaslighting the online space, paying off useful idiots to get rid of Israel, from the river to the sea, etc. They consider the country a blight on their total domination of the ME. Lebanon not to long ago was majority Christian.
Posted by: runner

yeah it is involving a bunch of $ for US to do that pushing back thing

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:59 PM (7neCS)

173 Even The Paolo has to observe Rule #1 from time to time.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:59 PM (77rzZ)

174 At least nobody speaks about Candace seriously anymore, as she's now established herself as the Jasmine Crockett of the woke right.
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I mostly ignored her.
Then I saw her promise a "major story" and it was a re-hash of the USS Liberty BS.
Then she started the Macon goofiness.

I saw someone point out her multiple string of "projects" that all fail, and it's quite a list, starting on the left then moving to the right.

She is such a f'ing phony.
It's going to be hilarious her excuse as to why she can't debate at the invitation of Turning Point.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 03:00 PM (HXT0k)

175 Slightly off topic, but germane: Has anyone who claims Charlie Kirk is hateful or racist ever cited anything he has actually said in defense of their claim?

I have yet to hear anything from them that comes clear to a cogent statement of facts. I assume it is all hysteria?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 03:00 PM (6Bc88)

176 The rumor is Trump refused to support MTG for Gov/Senate and that caused the break.

But...she didn't just stop supporting Trump she started allying with the left which would indicate her right leaning politics were always an act

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

177 170 167 *146 Is nookie involved? I'm also wondering if MTG is a fan of shrooms.
The Paolo, he will, how you say, try anything once.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 11, 2025 02:57 PM (Ij7mQ)

Well, Hello Big Boy!
Posted by: Lena Dunham

Step aside, fattie. I've got a whole LIST of firsts for him to try...

Posted by: Sam Brinton at December 11, 2025 03:01 PM (JCZqz)

178
It's become clear to me that this whole Fuentes/Jew-hate thing is an op. And Tucker and his bunch are part of it. Are they willing, or just honeydicked dupes, I don't know.

I'm just trying to figure out who is behind this op. Islam/Qatar obviously, splintering American right support for Israel would be right in their interests of course, but it's more than that. I think the Chicoms are behind a lot of this shit as well. It's all about subverting MAGA/Trump and reassertion of US dominance and all that.

And the Deep State is in on that as well. This is a complicated business. But it's very clever and dangerous.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 03:01 PM (w6EFb)

179 175 Slightly off topic, but germane: Has anyone who claims Charlie Kirk is hateful or racist ever cited anything he has actually said in defense of their claim?

I have yet to hear anything from them that comes clear to a cogent statement of facts. I assume it is all hysteria?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 03:00 PM (6Bc8

Actual stuff Kirk said? Of course not. Made up sh!t? Oh Yeah.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 03:01 PM (ynpvh)

180
But...she didn't just stop supporting Trump she started allying with the left which would indicate her right leaning politics were always an act
Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

Fair weather MAGA

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)

181 The Paolo, he will, how you say, try anything once.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 11, 2025 02:57 PM (Ij7mQ)

Well, Hello Big Boy!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 11, 2025 02:58 PM (ynpvh)

Not sure he was talking about farm animals.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 03:01 PM (snZF9)

182 160 What percentage of the anti-Israeli right is actually living in Islamabad?
Posted by: 18-1

Internet is dead thesis plus fake and gay. That goes for all social media btw including dating apps.

AI will soon get rid of the ten cent per post gang but also in turn actually kill discussion boards quicker as full of fakes just like awful AI slop designed to tickle's YT algorithm fancies are crowding out any useful and fun human made videos.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 03:01 PM (WDjG6)

183 Slightly off topic, but germane: Has anyone who claims Charlie Kirk is hateful or racist ever cited anything he has actually said in defense of their claim?

I have yet to hear anything from them that comes clear to a cogent statement of facts. I assume it is all hysteria?

It is a definitions thing, if you use 80s definitions of words, when the definitions were fixed, then nothing, however when you use definitions where words mean whatever the speaker want then he's a racist, sexist, transphobe

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:02 PM (7neCS)

184 How long do you properly cook a rodent fetus, anyway?
Posted by: Bulg '''

You have to check with Haitian cooks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 11, 2025 03:02 PM (jFNww)

185 Breaking bread, metaphorically speaking, with Code Pink is a type of Unpardonable Sin, for me.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:02 PM (pDt9x)

186 Tim Pool had a rant the other night on his show, and in the midst of it, made the observation that in the weeks and months after Charlie Kirk's murder, lots of people spent a great deal of time and effort turning the victim - Kirk and particularly Turning Point USA, into the villain in the crime. A lot of the people doing this are supposed to be on "our side."

The TPUSA thing reminds me of the Project Veritas saga from a few years ago. Veritas was very effective - too effective - so it had to be destroyed, mostly from within. James O'Keefe wasn't murdered, but his character was certainly assassinated. Looking back, those may have been the more civil times.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 11, 2025 03:02 PM (MZ+PY)

187 the best answer yet, he explains it pretty clearly:

https://tinyurl.com/3v4dtysd
Posted by: Tom Servo

That analysis hits the nail dead center.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 11, 2025 03:02 PM (rhY8p)

188 yeah it is involving a bunch of $ for US to do that pushing back thing
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:59 PM (7neCS)

Then move somewhere where they don't spend your money on countries you hate.

I'm perfectly fine with it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:02 PM (Vq1pX)

189 Fair weather MAGA
Posted by: It's

but yeah ted cruz is totes maga

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:03 PM (7neCS)

190 I bet, if he went back to wearing a bow tie, he could land Greta.
Posted by: Bulg

Kamala can do a better interview than Greta, as far as we know, 'cause she's never given one. They prop her up with a speech and a frown and she goes back to do autistic stuff and dope on a boat somewhere.

Posted by: Auspex at December 11, 2025 03:03 PM (Y8DZL)

191 Code Pink supports arab suppression of women.
MTG has lost her mind.

Posted by: torabora at December 11, 2025 03:04 PM (wKe4Y)

192 Then move somewhere where they don't spend your money on countries you hate.

I'm perfectly fine with it.
Posted by: W

I have not hate for Israel, suggesting we have a right to criticize Israel would be embarrassing for you

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:04 PM (7neCS)

193 Imagine suddenly agreeing with the far left on everything out of nowhere?

Posted by: William Kristoll at December 11, 2025 03:04 PM (fexSQ)

194 184 How long do you properly cook a rodent fetus, anyway?
Posted by: Bulg '''

You have to check with Haitian cooks.
+++

Or the people of Springfield, Ohio.

Posted by: The Kiffness at December 11, 2025 03:04 PM (Ij7mQ)

195 179 And Kirk quoting others before tearing the trash apart. Much like Trumps "Good people." Completely out of context, but that's what Pravda does.

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 03:04 PM (LX4y3)

196 185 Breaking bread, metaphorically speaking, with Code Pink is a type of Unpardonable Sin, for me.
Posted by: tubal

(Nom nom nom) This sourdough is delicious! And you said you made it yourself? What's so funny about "even the yeast"?

Posted by: MTG at December 11, 2025 03:04 PM (JCZqz)

197 Why don't the Palis leave Gaza? The/A French immigration court said they automatically qualify as refugees and would thus be entitled to invade that country.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 11, 2025 03:05 PM (GPa4z)

198 The TPUSA thing reminds me of the Project Veritas saga from a few years ago. Veritas was very effective - too effective - so it had to be destroyed, mostly from within. James O'Keefe wasn't murdered, but his character was certainly assassinated. Looking back, those may have been the more civil times.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
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There are literally trillions at stake for teh PTB and there are always people around like Judas Iscariot willing to take cold hard cash in order to betray most anything including Christ.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 03:05 PM (WDjG6)

199 Think of the political spectrum not as a straight line, but as a loop with the extreme ends attached. The proximity of the left and right nut jobs are close each other and as far away from normal folks as one can get.

Posted by: profligatewaste at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (SJVBk)

200 We are MAGA- Male America Great Again

They are MAGA- Mostly ALL Grifting Assholes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (snZF9)

201 Launch this afternoon.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-90
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 11, 2025
Launch Time: 5:01 p.m. EST (2201 UTC, 23:01 CET)

https://youtu.be/IQlPxsDAoi0

Posted by: Joyenz at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (2F0/Y)

202 My Little Margie

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (pkeXY)

203 Not sure he was talking about farm animals.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Once again the horde prooves itself to be a group of high functioning, critical thinkers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (rhY8p)

204 I have not hate for Israel, suggesting we have a right to criticize Israel would be embarrassing for you
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:04 PM (7neCS)

At a certain point you aren't grinding an axe anymore, you're just making a pointy club.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (Vq1pX)

205 lots of interesting new activity in this thread

there's an op, maybe multiple ops going on here with these "traitors."

New Commenter Tell

anyway tuck is an ass. I still blame him for PDJT going for the lockdown BS. and he NEVER apologized for what he CLAIMED he convinced Trump to do!

he's always been on the wrong side.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (emBoF)

206 "I noticed a while ago that some people on the 'right' -- the psuedoright, I call it -- seemed to be so happy to finally be able to be frenz with left-wingers that they rushed to adopt their positions."
_____

I think these dickface fucknuggets were always left or at least left-adjacent. It's just that earlier in their "careers," they found less competition in more right-leaning spheres. So they hid or obscured their true lefty aspirations in order to cater to this audience.

But then, once they've "made it" they no longer feel the need to fake it anymore. They thus drift to the natural place they always wanted to be: left.

This is doubly true when it comes to Israel and DA JOOZ. For a long time, even most lefty Democraps supported (or at least claimed to support) Israel and the Jew's right to exist. Certainly the psuedoright did.

But in the last few years, there was such an explosion of outspoken Jew-hate that it was no longer necessary to play the game. They didn't have to hide their hate any more.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (iFTx/)

207 Vox Day has already clarified the gatekeeper phenomenon, whereby individuals who 'take the ticket' are artificially elevated into fame/money/success so long as they are considered useful at propagandizing the message the puppet masters want pushed onto the masses.

Once said ticket takers are no longer considered useful, they are thrown away.

Ticket takers are just as despicable as all leftards, including RINOs.

Posted by: Pete at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (9uoO8)

208 Slightly off topic, but germane: Has anyone who claims Charlie Kirk is hateful or racist ever cited anything he has actually said in defense of their claim?
I have yet to hear anything from them that comes clear to a cogent statement of facts. I assume it is all hysteria?

Charlie was white, male and a Christian. He is automatically a racist homophobe bigoted anti-feminist KKK Grand Wizard in the minds of democrats everywhere.

Posted by: The Truth at December 11, 2025 03:07 PM (FGMmt)

209 make, not male. I hate this fucking keyboard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 03:07 PM (snZF9)

210 196 185 Breaking bread, metaphorically speaking, with Code Pink is a type of Unpardonable Sin, for me.

Code Pink is funded mainly by China.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 03:07 PM (emBoF)

211 199 Think of the political spectrum not as a straight line, but as a loop with the extreme ends attached. The proximity of the left and right nut jobs are close each other and as far away from normal folks as one can get.

+++
The so-called Horseshoe Theory.

Posted by: Just ask Ben Shapiro at December 11, 2025 03:07 PM (Ij7mQ)

212 I have not hate for Israel, suggesting we have a right to criticize Israel would be embarrassing for you
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:04 PM (7neCS)

At a certain point you aren't grinding an axe anymore, you're just making a pointy club.
Posted by: W

Yeah, has nothing to do with grinding an axe, you do not know anybody that knows more about mid-est history than me and that is a bigger supporter of Israel, however, that does not mean Israel has a pass for everything.

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:07 PM (7neCS)

213 182 Raimondo and BSG have entered the chat*

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 03:07 PM (LX4y3)

214 Fucker Carlson is a disgrace. At this point, I can only surmise that Keith Olberman carved him up Silence of the Lambs style and is wearing him around as a skinsuit.

Who on the right listens to his show at this point?
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I dont. I really think there is something off with him, or and he is on Qatar payroll. He just so weirdly off base. Like a dry drunk. He is not all there. I m just asking questions, is a dodge. You get to ask whatever questions you want. Not asking tough questions is a implicit choice to endorse the speaker.

Posted by: Deep state is pretty shallow now at December 11, 2025 03:08 PM (kwWDM)

215 OT-This is both heartbreaking and infuriating . 19 year old Israeli captive of the October 7th massacre was killed by a woman Gazan doctor shooting air into her veins.

From "Legal Insurrection" site:

https://tinyurl.com/mu575r2y

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 03:08 PM (lQ+/f)

216 "In their rush to oppose every part of neoconservativism ..."

Are there parts of neoconservatism that ought not be opposed? On the Venn diagram, is there a large intersection between neoconservatism and MAGA? I thought MAGA was a new course away from neoconservatism, but I haven't been keeping up.

Posted by: gp at December 11, 2025 03:08 PM (GHIyr)

217 I realize that this is all worthy of mention and that Ace is gonna do what Ace is gonna do on his own blog. I'm not bitching about that.

However, I find all of these assholes to be so loathsome that I hate it when I see Tucker, Candace, or any of the other quite-clearly-bought-and-paid-for "Conservatives" mentioned on this blog.

MTG is a fuckin looney bird who desperately needs a proper rogering. TuCa is a midwit in a bowtie who has been bought by Arab oil money like an OnlyFans skank. Candace is just a loathsome attention whore.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 03:09 PM (3BwY8)

218 however, that does not mean Israel has a pass for everything.
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:07 PM (7neCS)

Sure thing buddy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:09 PM (Vq1pX)

219 Notorious MTG

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 03:09 PM (Q+gd/)

220 Tucker Candace and others were obvious grifters or grifter adjacent.

Our side isso starved for someone, anyone to say the obvious shit thatt no one will say and Republicans won't fight for that we even fall for Lindsay Grahamster and his dopey faggot tie straightening maneuver. Remember that? Remember the theory that Lindsay's blackmail died with McCain? It has to be blackmail, it can never be that they're a faggot asshole.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:09 PM (fexSQ)

221 however, that does not mean Israel has a pass for everything.
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:07 PM (7neCS)

Sure thing buddy.
Posted by: W

I was here long before you, sorry you find debate threatening,

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:10 PM (7neCS)

222 "Yeah, has nothing to do with grinding an axe..."
###

Lemme axe you dis...

Posted by: Revrun Al Charlatan at December 11, 2025 03:10 PM (Ij7mQ)

223 The Op is partly that they want to set up a woke right, so the known woke left, who are nuts but authentic have a counterpoint, so Ds can go to all the squish voters and say "see, the Rs have just as many crazies they listen to...yeah, we have ours, but we've taken the power from ours...have they shut down Tucker or taken his power away?"...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 03:10 PM (tOcjL)

224 Carlson is almost 60. In the last months he talked 0 about local elections, or economy, or left's attacks on Trump, Hegseth and co., but he sure has time to day after day whine about Joooooos. Filthy, fat, old shrew.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:10 PM (g47mK)

225 Rodent fetus is best served raw with fava beans - Dr Lector

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 03:11 PM (D+mpw)

226 DJIA just hit a new high.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 03:11 PM (9iyS+)

227 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 03:08 PM (lQ+/f)

Fen, that is so horrible..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 03:11 PM (VE6XX)

228 Yep, absolute conspiracy theory here so skip if you're not into that.

Several prominent conservatives have turned on a dime. It happens, probably grifters. But hear me out. Michelle Malkin was once very influential, then her cousin disappears. Not long after Michelle steps out of the picture. Brian Kemp's daughter's boyfriend dies in fiery crash, Kemp does 180 on election audit. Maybe for Tucker it is Qatar money, MTG and Owens, maybe something else. Maybe grift, maybe messages are being sent and they could step out of the picture, or get paid from a different source. Tim Pool gets shots fired on his property the other day. Someone shot at Trump and no one knows anything about him except some sketchy details.

Carry on.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 03:12 PM (Dv3i1)

229 yes three dots

well said

I can feel the saltiness!

remember the other grifter that walked thru Balmer? I forget her name

we are such soft touches for grifters. sad.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 03:12 PM (emBoF)

230 He is afraid to say anything about Trump, the master and commander of all the policies, foreign and domestic that Carlson so loathes. Because he knows what will happen to him if he does.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:12 PM (g47mK)

231 226 DJIA just hit a new high.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 03:11 PM (9iyS+)

Silver, 63.42.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:12 PM (pDt9x)

232 MTG going all Liz Cheney on us.

Posted by: UNPROGRESSIVE at December 11, 2025 03:12 PM (IUmF8)

233 Hahagahgagaa

"Debate"

I'm choking here. Hilarious stuff.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:12 PM (Vq1pX)

234 Chuck you are on to something

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 03:12 PM (emBoF)

235 224 Carlson is almost 60.
+++++++

Is he advertising Relief Factor yet?

Posted by: Talk Radio Marketing Execs at December 11, 2025 03:13 PM (Ij7mQ)

236 Can we trade MTG for Bonnie Blue?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (MeJZi)

237 Hahagahgagaa

"Debate"

I'm choking here. Hilarious stuff.
Posted by: W

yeah, you're not debating anything, you are refusing to allow any debate of anything Israel, you're basically running the blm game. any questions are anti-semitic

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (7neCS)

238 187 the best answer yet, he explains it pretty clearly:

https://tinyurl.com/3v4dtysd
Posted by: Tom Servo

That analysis hits the nail dead center.
Posted by: Sock Monkey
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Strom nearly hits the target but at the back of all of this is a stark truth.

The elites in the West have given up on popular democracy and that means they are willing to consider moving to authoritarianism whether Muslim state-religion, Communism, or Fascism.

Elites positively hate now the assorted regular people of the globe that just want to get on with life, have kids, and not worry so much about the future while clinging to their guns and religion.

Our ruling elites in the West want us citizens either dead, neutered, impoverished, and subservient to their whims. Nasty critters after ultimate power is the only hypotheses explaining the past half century of policy in the West.

Trump, MAGA, and assorted freedom fighters around the world composed of ordinary citizens are in their way for their version of Utopia for them, hell on earth for us.

That is the war going on.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (WDjG6)

239 I want to use the difficulty of even speaking precisely about what's going on here as a springboard for the difficulty of actual synthetic cognition, which is currently not even being attempted, AI hype notwithstanding.

On the one hand, the MAGA coalition is a big tent of American nationalists, which includes a lot of cultural leftists, from (merely anti-woke) secular tech bros to the "crunchy moms" of MAHA, so leftism by itself isn't a disqualifier. On the other hand, there is actual inconsistency out there, as supposedly conservative NeverTrumpers now reliably spout Democrat talking points, and apparent pan-nationalists make a singular exception for Zionism as the one kind of nationalism they cannot express brotherly respect for.

As Pixy Misa reminds us, the LLMs of GenAI are just a fancy auto-complete. But I would go further and say that even if a century from now we got synthetic cognition, we can never offload our thinking and judgement to it, because it can never be sure who to trust either, because that's the hardest puzzle to solve, because it's an opposed task. Every heuristic you can come up with will immediately be life-hacked by con artists to cheat you.

Posted by: SciVo at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (Sy6m/)

240

Posted by:
at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (e2TX7)

241
I'm choking here. Hilarious stuff.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Single letter troll fight!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (jFNww)

242 I realize that this is all worthy of mention and that Ace is gonna do what Ace is gonna do on his own blog. I'm not bitching about that.

However, I find all of these assholes to be so loathsome that I hate it when I see Tucker, Candace, or any of the other quite-clearly-bought-and-paid-for "Conservatives" mentioned on this blog.

MTG is a fuckin looney bird who desperately needs a proper rogering. TuCa is a midwit in a bowtie who has been bought by Arab oil money like an OnlyFans skank. Candace is just a loathsome attention whore.
Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 03:09 PM (3BwY

____

I think money is at the root of a lot of or even most of this. We know that shady pricks and cocksuckers like Soros and Muslim wealth funds spread a ton of money around media and politics to buy narratives and influence. Do we think they only bribe leftwing outlets? No, they don't. They have many "rightwing" voices in their pockets too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

243 Don’t know about conspiracy theories, but I DO know that Democrats/Leftists WILL kill you if they take a notion to.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (pDt9x)

244 I have yet to hear anything from them that comes clear to a cogent statement of facts. I assume it is all hysteria?
=
He spoke about 3 specfic black females. Justice Brown. Shelia Jackson lee. And somebody else. He reacted to public comments they each made crediting DEI. Affirm action for their success. His comments were abridged and made to seem to be comments about black women in general and played on bluesky, twitter, youtube, instagram etc. Thus there are a lot of people who have only heard those edited remarks. Mind you, the full remarks are blistering towards the individuals in question. But, he his quoting there public statements back to them and fisking them.... many people who use those sources for information never know the whole story. It is a form of charachter assassination, intended to precede and justify the actual. It was an op.

Posted by: Deep state is pretty shallow now at December 11, 2025 03:16 PM (kwWDM)

245 so no criticism of huckabee for meeting pollard because that's anti-semitic?

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:16 PM (7neCS)

246 any questions are anti-semitic
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (7neCS)

Holy fuck not the questions dear heavens won't somebody think of the poor questions

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:16 PM (Vq1pX)

247
Nothing pisses me off more than Interporkrind wars.

Well, I hate fags & illegarinos, too.

And I, of course, hate fucking monkeys.

And the Irish.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 11, 2025 03:16 PM (rnXZH)

248 We're not allowed to criticize Israel? Since when?

Free thought, freedom of speech, God given free will.

I will criticize whatever the f*ck I feel like criticizing, thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

249 any questions are anti-semitic
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:14 PM (7neCS)

Holy fuck not the questions dear heavens won't somebody think of the poor questions
Posted by: W

you have no understanding how much youre hurting Israel with this nonsense

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:16 PM (7neCS)

250
TIME magazine just named me its "Retard of the Year"!

Posted by: tim walz at December 11, 2025 03:17 PM (rnXZH)

251 I've kind of been assuming that Megyns' refusal to condemn Candace's batshit insanity was due to Owens and Tucker being so ideologically aligned currently. She knows Tucker will come after her if she does.
I imagine Tucker would have some very true, less than flattering stories of her last days at Fox when she thought she was about to become a star at NBC, OF ALL PLACES.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 11, 2025 03:17 PM (33LJY)

252 TIME magazine just named me its "Retard of the Year"!
Posted by: tim walz

We are all happy for you!

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:18 PM (g47mK)

253 #240- Your arguments were entirely transparent . Please try again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 03:18 PM (oT1li)

254
I hate china and israel equally. I hate all other countries.

Posted by: tim walz at December 11, 2025 03:18 PM (rnXZH)

255 Yay , there's a new strain of monkey pox in England. And Egypt and Iran are pissed about having to play on the Soccer Pride Match in Seattle.
Intersectionality goes boink

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 03:18 PM (D+mpw)

256 you have no understanding how much youre hurting Israel with this nonsense
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 03:16 PM (7neCS)

Well screw Israel and their weird big ass couscous then. I only care about the poor little questions that can't be just asked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:19 PM (Vq1pX)

257
It's sad when threads go senile or loony,

yet here we are.

Time to put a bullet in it's brain, Ace.

And give us a new one.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 03:19 PM (iJfKG)

258 She is such a f'ing phony.
It's going to be hilarious her excuse as to why she can't debate at the invitation of Turning Point.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I couldn't figure out why CO was acting like this re: TPUSA until I read Miranda Devine's article and then it all made sense to me.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3da48n

Posted by: Cheri at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (oiNtH)

259 257
It's sad when threads go senile or loony,

yet here we are.

Time to put a bullet in it's brain, Ace.

And give us a new one.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 03:19 PM (iJfKG)

Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

260 Megyn Kelly was ALWAYS an opportunist. When it was convenient she aligned with MeToo and sank the man who made her career. When it was convenient , she dumped on Trump. When in was convenient she went to fashion galas to hang around with the lefties. When it was convenient, she became Uber-MAGA mom !

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (g47mK)

261 Think of the political spectrum not as a straight line, but as a loop with the extreme ends attached. The proximity of the left and right nut jobs are close each other and as far away from normal folks as one can get.
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That is pretty much not at all true.

The idea of a political spectrum is a vast oversimplification of what large groups of people support (I'm deliberately not using the word "think"). It assumes that the two political parties represent (LOL) large concentrations of opinion or effectively define the endpoints of debate on a particular topic.

In truth, there are a great many axes, one for any significant topic, and only a few of them are getting attention at any particular time. People gravitate towards the group they have most current agreement with, and the weaker minded/less principled ones will adjust their other opinions to fit in. That's all you're seeing in the horseshoe.

Posted by: Methos at December 11, 2025 03:21 PM (vSvIl)

262 259 Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

======

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

263 And the Irish.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 11, 2025 03:16 PM (rnXZH)
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We'll give some land to the ______s and the ____s, but we don't want the Irish!

Posted by: Howard Johnson at December 11, 2025 03:21 PM (3BwY8)

264 Uh oh. We are getting so heated the Ginger/Maryann war will go from cold sniping to hot shooting.

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 03:21 PM (LX4y3)

265 Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

Bad Santa. Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Bob Chipeska at December 11, 2025 03:21 PM (FGMmt)

266 Prometheus as a Christmas movie??

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (pDt9x)

267 Slightly off topic, but germane: Has anyone who claims Charlie Kirk is hateful or racist ever cited anything he has actually said in defense of their claim?

Thing is, I liked what Charlie Kirk said, but I am pretty sure his frenz are not Charlie Kirk. I won't be sure until there is more than a couple months of track record.
To whit: MLKJr's frenz have managed to rename a bunch of streets, and that is about the extent of the victories in the last 50 years.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (rbvCR)

268 >>>But then I noticed that people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly weren't ...

I hope we don't have to lump them into the same mold.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (RuTUS)

269 DJIA just hit a new high.
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Inflation only seems to be under control when it goes someplace people like to see it.

Posted by: Methos at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (vSvIl)

270 265 Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

Alistair Sims A Christmas Carol

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (VE6XX)

271 *considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (hS7lz)

272
Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

I think there's a lot to be said for -

"Santa Claus VS The Martians".

A terrible movie, which I hated even as a wee tad when it first came out.

And yet, I remember it very clearly.

So, there's something there. God knows what it is.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (iJfKG)

273 271 Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (hS7lz)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

274 262 Prometheus should be an Eart Day film. Killed and buried as compost by its founder.

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (LX4y3)

275 Women should never have been given the vote.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (Wg6v7)

276 Megyns' refusal to condemn Candace's batshit insanity was due to Owens and Tucker being so ideologically aligned currently. She knows Tucker will come after her if she does.
I imagine Tucker would have some very true, less than flattering stories of her last days at Fox when she thought she was about to become a star at
==
Candace Owens podcast is the worlds longest running public cry for help, with the exception of Keith Olbermans. Charity alone demands that somebody who knows her, tells her to get help. She is schizo bipolar etc. She needs meds. She should not be behind a public microphone ffs.

Posted by: Deep state is pretty shallow now at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (kwWDM)

277 257 It's sad when threads go senile or loony,

yet here we are.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 03:19 PM (iJfKG)

Quick summary? I just got here.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (RuTUS)

278 Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

Die Hard

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (ynpvh)

279 270 265 Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

Alistair Sims A Christmas Carol
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (VE6XX)

Good choice. I like the Patrick Stewart one also.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (pDt9x)

280 In truth, there are a great many axes, [ . . . ]
Posted by: Methos at December 11, 2025 03:21 PM (vSvIl)

And the people who own those axes are going to make sure you grind them to their satisfaction.

(I know that is not what you meant, but it is what happens, too)

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (rbvCR)

281 DJIA just hit a new high.

Gold $4286.20
Silver $63.75

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (hS7lz)

282
Good choice. I like the Patrick Stewart one also.
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (pDt9x)

Me too...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 03:25 PM (VE6XX)

283
*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

and the streak ends.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

284 283
and the streak ends.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

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Bits must be used sparingly, or they lose their bite.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

285 278 Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

Die Hard
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You'll shoot your eye out!

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 03:25 PM (Wg6v7)

286 Women should never have been given the vote.
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Agreed. Now what should be done about it?

Zoot: Spankings. SPANKINGS ALL AROUND!!!!

Posted by: A good start at December 11, 2025 03:26 PM (kwWDM)

287 I can feel the saltiness!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 03:12 PM (emBoF)

That's because it's only Thursday. Friday I'm a much different human. I'll be laughing it up with everyone.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:26 PM (fexSQ)

288 Elf, Home Alone.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:26 PM (pDt9x)

289 270 265 Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

Alistair Sims A Christmas Carol
Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (VE6XX)

Good choice. I like the Patrick Stewart one also.
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (pDt9x)
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Muppet Christmas Carol FTW!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 03:26 PM (ESVrU)

290 Aside from Alastair Sims in "Scrooge" which may be its official title, I like "A Christmas Story."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 03:26 PM (oT1li)

291 Can we trade MTG for Bonnie Blue?
Posted by: Anna Puma

MTG is a grifting annoying bulldog whereas Bonnie is just a wide-eyed, sad, petite slut. The difference I think that with MTG, she pretends that she is one thing while grifting for money while Bonnie, never pretends and presents herself as she is for all takers.

Posted by: Cheri at December 11, 2025 03:26 PM (oiNtH)

292 nood

Posted by: gp at December 11, 2025 03:26 PM (GHIyr)

293 285 Nope, just his hearing.

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 03:26 PM (LX4y3)

294 Yep. So, favorite Christmas movies?
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:20 PM (pDt9x)

Well, I would say Die Hard, but Fatman is certainly a contender.

Miracle on 34th St is always good. The original The Bishop's Wife, if only for the 1947 cutting edge special effects.

As for A Christmas Carol, I'm partial to the vinyl recording by Barrymore. It's available on Youtube. Dad used to play that Christmas Eve and then it was time for kids to go to bed.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (6Bc88)

295 Star Wars Christmas Special.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (pDt9x)

296 Quick summary? I just got here.
Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (RuTUS)

For my part, I'm being a dick to y5 for fun. Kinda over it though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (Vq1pX)

297 "Santa Claus VS The Martians".

A terrible movie, which I hated even as a wee tad when it first came out.

And yet, I remember it very clearly.

So, there's something there. God knows what it is.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 03:23 PM (iJfKG)
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A movie that MUST be watched with RiffTrax/MST3K commentary...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (ESVrU)

298 new nood

Posted by: doug at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (Hy+R4)

299 Candace Owens podcast is the worlds longest running public cry for help.

Posted by: Deep state is pretty shallow now at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (kwWDM)

Excuse me?

erg / greg/ raimondo / alias

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (fexSQ)

300 Candace Owens podcast is the worlds longest running public cry for help, with the exception of Keith Olbermans. Charity alone demands that somebody who knows her, tells her to get help. She is schizo bipolar etc. She needs meds. She should not be behind a public microphone ffs.
Posted by: Deep state is pretty shallow now at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (kwWDM)

Are you saying that she isn't really being stalked by the French Foreign Legion?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (uWKK8)

301 296 Quick summary? I just got here.
Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (RuTUS)

For my part, I'm being a dick to y5 for fun. Kinda over it though.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (Vq1pX)

Thanks. I'll search for those nicks!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 03:28 PM (RuTUS)

302 and the streak ends.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
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Bout time you put some clothes on.

Posted by: Axeman at December 11, 2025 03:28 PM (krQz2)

303 295 Meth. Not even once.

Posted by: Bete at December 11, 2025 03:28 PM (LX4y3)

304 The George C. Scott version of "A Christmas Carol."

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 03:28 PM (W7XSX)

305 Medea Benjamin is truly vile and repulsive.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 03:29 PM (A0sqA)

306 There is nothing wrong with that.

This country are the baddies.

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 11, 2025 03:30 PM (rQwsY)

307 TuCa gave air to Francesca Albanese?

Did he flick her bean on the air too?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 03:31 PM (A0sqA)

308
Bits must be used sparingly, or they lose their bite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

I don't get it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

309 Bits must be used sparingly, or they lose their bite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

I don't get it.
Posted by: Sponge
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It's boring.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 03:38 PM (XeU6L)

310 301 296 Quick summary? I just got here.
Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 03:24 PM (RuTUS)

For my part, I'm being a dick to y5 for fun. Kinda over it though.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 03:27 PM (Vq1pX)

Thanks. I'll search for those nicks!
Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 03:28 PM (RuTUS)

I searched for yours. Y5, and anything I could resolve as y5, isn't showing up anywhere.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 03:40 PM (RuTUS)

311 Marjorie Taylor-Grift was always a Democrat. $he took the "Republican" $chtick a$ far a$ $he could, now we $ee who $he really i$.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 11, 2025 03:42 PM (qUkBO)

312 311 Marjorie Taylor-Grift was always a Democrat. $he took the "Republican" $chtick a$ far a$ $he could, now we $ee who $he really i$.
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 11, 2025 03:42 PM (qUkBO)

Above all, she is for MTG, and has a high school mentality. There are two kinds of people: those who loved HS and wished it never ended, and those who loathed it and couldn’t wait for it to end. Guess what group MTG belongs to?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 03:44 PM (rQwsY)

313 The Fatman.

Posted by: He's got his eye on you at December 11, 2025 03:44 PM (Ij7mQ)

314 Trump fast-tracked the 'vaccine' knowing FULL WELL it wasn't necessary and covid was a flu that a majority of everyone would get through it just fine.

Meanwhile, it's MURDERING MILLIONS around the world.

I find that VERY hard to forgive.

Trump is not a doctor and is a germophobe. I don’t know what he knew (and neither do you). COVID came out of a PRC bio-weapons lab and might have been much worse. It was NOT an influenza virus, but in retrospect was comparable to a bad, but not very bad, flu epidemic. Think 1968 flu not 1918. The measures taken against it were nonsense and proven not to work by measures taken against the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919. Isolation, masking, and distancing were tried then and made no difference. They didn’t work this time either. I think Trump was manipulated by his advisors like Fauci and Birx, but they, Fauci and Birx, were in on the scam. Frankly, I think Trump was too trusting of people like them and got fooled into “solving” the problem with a dubious “vaccine” technology: the MRNA approach. Again I think Trump didn’t know how dangerous that approach is: he just didn’t know and trusted his “experts”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 11, 2025 03:45 PM (8lgVD)

315 MTG, Tucker, etc. are performing Political Only Fans

Posted by: Hal Dall at December 11, 2025 03:49 PM (V0M+7)

316 Cont.

Trump was naive, but well intentioned. He never called for a national shut-down: that was due to state and community leaders. The mandatory “vaccination” occurred under Biden not Trump. It was not required in my state, and I worked for the state: I never took it. The MRNA based “vaccine” should be outlawed. Some countries are moving in that direction. That is one thing I will hold against Trump. He doesn’t want to admit how badly he was fooled. Let’s hope that once burnt, twice shy applies here. I know I will never blindly accept vaccination again, but will research what it is first. Basically do not accept any MRNA-based shot.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 11, 2025 03:54 PM (8lgVD)

317 One more reason why it's important to agree with who you agree and disagree with whom you disagree -- and they can sometimes be the same person.

Kinda like never meeting your heroes, because they'll disappoint you. Be a fucking grownup. Of *course* they will. They're mere mortals.

All or nothing -- especially in politics -- is one of the dumbest postures to take.

Posted by: red speck at December 11, 2025 04:00 PM (Ve/HL)

318 I guess Marge just wanted a photo op with a hag that is actually uglier than her...

Posted by: UncleJefe at December 11, 2025 04:12 PM (gAuAm)

319 Code Pink supplied Al'Qaeda with supplies and cash while the Marines were fighting them in Fallujah.

I do not understand why Code Pink wasn't exterminated for their treason.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 11, 2025 05:03 PM (HxdSO)

320 Nothing new under the sun. MTG is a groyper, Code Pink are commie anti semites. That is her tie as well as Tuckers to Albanese. To them, if there is a problem in the world a jew is the cause. Anti semitism is the tie that binds worldviews

Posted by: crypto king at December 11, 2025 05:10 PM (s8WNT)

321 Skank whore!!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 11, 2025 05:30 PM (Ipymw)

322 Just where had Code Stink been hiding out these last few years?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 11, 2025 06:24 PM (wGqjj)

323 Adult can be accessed through secure and reputable
websites. Explore safe adult sites for quality content.

Posted by: FULL PORN MOVIES at December 11, 2025 10:45 PM (LfGhv)

324 Staying just long enough to be vested.

Estimated wealth - $25.15M; hundreds of trades, millions of dollars made 2021 through the present; holds 51% share in Taylor Commercial, Inc. a private general contracting and renovation company, primarily serving the multi-family housing industry. (Reportedly, the company has performed work on taxpayer-subsidized low-income housing projects, not on direct gov. contract, and also received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan.)

Grown 'kids" 22 through 30+ The oldest daughter & family known for lavish spending.

Boyfriend Brian Glenn, chief White House correspondent for the conservative network Real America's Voice, has expressed that while he is loyal to Greene, his allegiance to Trump remains intact.

Hindustan Times, 'Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed for slated appearance on The View: ‘Liz Cheney 2.0’

In part, "MTG will appear on the November 4 episode of The View, which is election day in the US. Her decision has been met by pushback from many in the Republican party, especially MAGA loyalists.
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When the "kids" are out on their own & have their own political opinions, everything changes. See Tucker, Liz Cheney and more.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 11, 2025 11:13 PM (NFX2v)

325 A foreign country has broken the back of the conservative movement. Israel has completely hijacked the Republican party. Fuck I hate Israel. It's nothing but a welfare terror state.

Posted by: Watchdog at December 12, 2025 12:48 AM (fLDmC)

326 If I were a Jew, and wanted to put Jewish interests above American interests, and didn't care if I destroyed the Conservative movement to do it, what would I say differently to Ace here?

Probably not much.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 12, 2025 01:06 AM (YINx+)

James Comer: We'll Subpoena Tampon Tim Walz to Prove His Involvement In Somali Fraud

Yes. And audit all the finances of his family.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says he is willing to subpoena Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor and failed vice-presidential candidate, over a fraud scheme in his state that reportedly saw hundreds of millions of dollars routed through nonprofits to Somali immigrants and others.
"If anyone that has received correspondence from us thus far requesting information, if they don't turn over that information, then they will get a subpoena. And we're serious about this. We're not going to back down," Comer warned in an interview with Just the News.

...
Comer noted to Just The News that Walz and other Minnesota officials, like Attorney General Keith Ellison, have "hid" as the investigation proceeds.
"You know, Walz gets due process, but the way he's handling this, and the way Ellison, the attorney general, has kind of hid right now, makes me pretty confident that there's a massive amount of waste, fraud and abuse that's about to be detected here, and I'm going to predict that Walz's political career is closer to an end than somewhere in the middle."

Walz is running for his fourth term as Minnesota governor. I'd like to think that even leftwing Minnesotans have had enough, but we can't forget that left-wing Virginians happily voted for an AG who advocated for killing cops and killing political opponents' wives.

...

Comer reiterated that sentiment and suggested this is not an anomaly. "I think what we're going to find in Minnesota is probably happening in many other states. Minnesota could be, and hopefully is, the worst offender, but there are other blue states run by Democratic [Party] governors who refuse to turn over any data, not only to Congress, but to cabinet secretaries like Brooke Rollins who are trying to get a handle on programs like SNAP."

Of course, Democrats have a long history of enriching themselves in office:

During his tenure, Comer uncovered bank records showing that Hunter Biden received $6.5 million from Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, where he served on the board despite lacking expertise, with testimony from Devon Archer revealing that Hunter placed Joe Biden on speakerphone over 20 times with foreign associates to sell the "Biden brand" for influence, and allegations that Joe Biden's push to oust prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2015 aligned suspiciously with Burisma's pressure on Hunter for protection.

Posted by: Ace at 01:24 PM

Comments

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1 Le sigh...

I just can't get excited about committee hearings that become demo reels for fundraising pitches.

sorry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

2 1st!

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:25 PM (77rzZ)

3 Tim Walz is the Keir Starmer of Tina Koteks.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 11, 2025 01:25 PM (qUkBO)

4 Third term, not fourth. Otherwise dead on

Posted by: TitaniumRodsStewart16 at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (E5Cb5)

5 Dammit, TJM.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (77rzZ)

6 5 Dammit, TJM.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (77rzZ)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

7 The point of leftwing politics is to grift money from the government.

The problem here is Walz and friends got too greedy

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 01:27 PM (sKqQm)

8 I can't believe I missed the Font thread.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 11, 2025 01:27 PM (sX1BW)

9 Arrests, Trials, and Sentencing?

Waiting!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 01:27 PM (LmIVp)

10 Comer uncovered bank records showing that Hunter Biden received $6.5 million from Ukrainian energy firm Burisma
......

Guilty as sin, free as a bird.

Posted by: wth at December 11, 2025 01:27 PM (v0R5T)

11 James Comer: We'll Subpoena Tampon Tim Walz to Prove His Involvement In Somali Fraud

Nobody would lie to Congress!

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 01:27 PM (aZ9eR)

12 Walz is running for his fourth term as Minnesota governor. I'd like to think that even leftwing Minnesotans have had enough, but we can't forget that left-wing Virginians happily voted for an AG who advocated for killing cops and killing political opponents' wives.
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Speaking of, can’t we just turn the page? I didn’t hear you, let’s try again. CANT WE JUST TURN THE PAAAAGGGGGGEEEEE *arms fling around wildly like Kermit the frog*

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (Q9G/L)

13 And if you want stuff like this to stop you have to put people like Walz in jail.

Not make speeches, hell, not even charge them. They have to be convicted and spend time in jail.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (sKqQm)

14 I just can't get excited about committee hearings that become demo reels for fundraising pitches.

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Changing font standards is more consequential than a useless committee meeting.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (sX1BW)

15 I can't believe I missed the Font thread.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 11, 2025 01:27 PM (sX1BW)
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It was pointless.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (LmIVp)

16 Wow. A House subpoena. Double wow.

Is there somewhere I can send a check?

Posted by: IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!! at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (SmniV)

17 Walz is running for his fourth term as Minnesota governor. I'd like to think that even leftwing Minnesotans have had enough, but we can't forget that left-wing Virginians happily voted for an AG who advocated for killing cops and killing political opponents' wives.

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"Yeah, but he doesn't hate the gays."
-AWFLs

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

18 voted for"

Yeah, sure. Now count more votes, tavarish...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (XuXeR)

19 Timtard will skate. Politicians NEVER pay a price for their serial felonies... felonies that would make a private sector embezzler blush.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (Bo9Yf)

20 *arms fling around wildly like Kermit the frog*
Posted by: Piper

Is that one of the classes at your studio?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

21 20 *arms fling around wildly like Kermit the frog*
Posted by: Piper

Is that one of the classes at your studio?
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:28

I made a post recently with this. It’s funny.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (Q9G/L)

22 You know who else never got a fourth term?

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (fexSQ)

23 And a key in all this.

Find something Walz doesn't want to talk about but you have proof of even if it isn't in and of itself illegal - like say meeting with the Somalis and then getting a check from them.

Get him to say under oath that it didn't happen.

Then charge him with lying to congress.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (sKqQm)

24 Wow. A House subpoena. Double wow.

Is there somewhere I can send a check?
Posted by: IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!

Never send a check until they start rolling up their sleeves.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (77rzZ)

25 21 I made a post recently with this. It’s funny.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (Q9G/L)

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Did you make a post telling people to like and subscribe?

Well, did ya?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

26 And then what?

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at December 11, 2025 01:30 PM (vFG9F)

27 Someday politicians will pay for their crimes. But not these politicians.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 11, 2025 01:30 PM (qUkBO)

28 The Great White Father, Chief of American Somaliland, will probably get back in unless the feds can nail him, somehow, before the election.

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 01:30 PM (2L+MU)

29 20 *arms fling around wildly like Kermit the frog*
Posted by: Piper

Is that one of the classes at your studio?
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

Muppet Muscle

Posted by: Henson Studios is on the phone about licensing fees at December 11, 2025 01:30 PM (TbWk/)

30 "Yeah, but he doesn't hate the gays."
-AWFLs"

Trans is good!

/winebox

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:30 PM (XuXeR)

31 >>I'd like to think that even leftwing Minnesotans have had enough,

What you mean to write is that you hope the Somali election fraud machine is somehow not going to work.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 01:30 PM (Pkr1Y)

32 STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 11, 2025 01:30 PM (Kt19C)

33 Comer reiterated that sentiment and suggested this is not an anomaly. "I think what we're going to find in Minnesota is probably happening in many other states. Minnesota could be, and hopefully is, the worst offender, but there are other blue states run by Democratic [Party] governors who refuse to turn over any data, not only to Congress, but to cabinet secretaries like Brooke Rollins who are trying to get a handle on programs like SNAP."

He could have shortened this by using New Mexico.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (uv8gn)

34 You know who else never got a fourth term?

Not FDR. He should have been drummed out of Washington after one term.

Posted by: That guy who really dislikes FDR at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (Riz8t)

35
Republicans Pouncing!!!

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (IifOV)

36 If the point of Dems is to grift money from the government,
then the point of point of the GOPe is to grift money off the Dems grifting money from the government

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (D+mpw)

37 Someday politicians will pay for their crimes. "

But it is not this day!

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (XuXeR)

38 And then what?
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They'll go have wedge salads for lunch and pretend the whole thing never happened.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (TN0g+)

39 31
What you mean to write is that you hope the Somali election fraud machine is somehow not going to work.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 11, 2025 01:30 PM (Pkr1Y)

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Posit:

The Somalis doing most of the ballot harvesting were the least likely to be following the letter of the law in other aspects of their lives and will be the most likely to get deported in a concentrated immigration enforcement effort in the state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

40 Give him the full financial colonoscopy.

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (YwEeS)

41 1 Le sigh...

I just can't get excited about committee hearings that become demo reels for fundraising pitches.

sorry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

This is what the Republican party has been reduced to. With a majority in the House and Senate, albeit slim, this is the best we can hope for, apparently.

Posted by: Disney Stockholders at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (N39Ws)

42 I tell you yah that Timmy will do de right thing an fix de fraud yah in his next term yah.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (xvV+O)

43 I'd like to see a crack team led by DataRepublican and Big Balls send AI audit spiders up this sad poofter's stretched asshole and uncover every shady, filthy thing he's ever done.

But sadly, I'm sure all the graft and grift and dirty money was nicely papered over in the form of campaign contributions. Nobody knows graft and corruption like the Democraps, and nobody knows how to cover it up better.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

44 25 21 I made a post recently with this. It’s funny.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (Q9G/L)

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Did you make a post telling people to like and subscribe?

Well, did ya?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

Does one hit the bell, then smash the like and subscribe buttons, or smash the bell then hit the like and subscribe buttons?

Posted by: Tech talk with 'Tubers at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (TbWk/)

45 STEINER WILL COME"

Steiner makes good binoculars...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (XuXeR)

46 Walz might not win a 4th term? Maybe get a suitable replacement while there is still time. That former Michigan coach seems like a good fit for Minnesota. Plus he likes the Skandis, for sure. The women anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (Dv3i1)

47 And if you want stuff like this to stop you have to put people like Walz in jail.

Not make speeches, hell, not even charge them. They have to be convicted and spend time in jail.
Posted by: 18-1

Follow Illinois example.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (TezPK)

48 A lot more politicians need to be similarly investigates.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (iHvGi)

49 Not Kermit, but the grinch will have to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWwQQ7MrbU

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (Riz8t)

50 41 This is what the Republican party has been reduced to. With a majority in the House and Senate, albeit slim, this is the best we can hope for, apparently.

Posted by: Disney Stockholders at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM (N39Ws)

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The problem is that Congress is not law enforcement. It doesn't have that power.

Congress has already done all it can by classifying all this shit as illegal. What are they going to do? Make it double illegal with another law?

Any action has to come from the DOJ, and the DOJ won't say anything in public until they file public affidavits and charging documents against individuals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

51 Tim, you're a governor. Quit dancing around like some Kansas City fag.

Taggart

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:33 PM (gm9Sb)

52 and will be the most likely to get deported in a concentrated immigration enforcement effort in the state."

LOL...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:33 PM (XuXeR)

53 But sadly, I'm sure all the graft and grift and dirty money was nicely papered over in the form of campaign contributions. Nobody knows graft and corruption like the Democraps, and nobody knows how to cover it up better.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

*whistles, confidently*

Posted by: ActBlue at December 11, 2025 01:33 PM (Dv3i1)

54 "If anyone that has received correspondence from us thus far requesting information, if they don't turn over that information, then they will get a subpoena. And we're serious about this. We're not going to back down," Comer warned in an interview with Just the News.

Yeah, yeah. Sure you will. (insert eyeroll here)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 11, 2025 01:33 PM (uQesX)

55

he is willing to subpoena Tim Walz.

Maybe yes
Maybe no

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 01:33 PM (pkeXY)

56
Timmy could serve 4 terms in office and then serve 6-8 years in prison.

Serving is serving.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 01:33 PM (IifOV)

57 Comer reiterated that sentiment and suggested this is not an anomaly. "I think what we're going to find in Minnesota is probably happening in many other states. Minnesota could be, and hopefully is, the worst offender, but there are other blue states run by Democratic [Party] governors who refuse to turn over any data, not only to Congress, but to cabinet secretaries like Brooke Rollins who are trying to get a handle on programs like SNAP."

He could have shortened this by using New Mexico.
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Ahem.

Posted by: Calizuela at December 11, 2025 01:33 PM (xvV+O)

58 52 and will be the most likely to get deported in a concentrated immigration enforcement effort in the state."

LOL...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:33 PM (XuXeR)

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I mean...BP and ICE did suddenly swoop in on Minneapolis last week, and they're still rounding people up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

59 Tim, you're a governor. Quit dancing around like some Kansas City fag.
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He's right--that's a bad look for a Minnesota fag.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:34 PM (TN0g+)

60 Congress has already done all it can by classifying all this shit as illegal. What are they going to do?

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They could cut the SNAP program. That would cut the fraud.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 11, 2025 01:34 PM (sX1BW)

61 Does one hit the bell, then smash the like and subscribe buttons, or smash the bell then hit the like and subscribe buttons?"

Before or after the latest Win 11 update?

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:34 PM (XuXeR)

62 > James Comer: We'll Subpoena Tampon Tim Walz to Prove His Involvement In Somali Fraud
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A number of former *biden aids were subpoenaed over the autopen debacle and declined to appear. Why would this be any different?

More failure theater coming up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 01:35 PM (NwnyJ)

63 VA AG as ok with death of his political opponents’ kids as a way to punish the wife

Posted by: Hoss at December 11, 2025 01:35 PM (NfDEX)

64 IF it comes out that Walz got more than his fair share of the loot then the other crooks will not be happy.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 01:35 PM (Q+gd/)

65
Only if they make Tim wear a bike helmet when he walks into Congress.. for his own protection..

and put corks on his forks

Posted by: Blanco at December 11, 2025 01:35 PM (q83gU)

66 They could cut the SNAP program"

LOL part deux...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:35 PM (XuXeR)

67
Didn't John Solomon announce a few weeks ago that he was going to drop something MAJOR in a few days?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 11, 2025 01:36 PM (1N/bM)

68
Minnesota is lost.

The gov wants to bring more of the thieves into his state.

Posted by: four seasons at December 11, 2025 01:36 PM (3ek7K)

69 60 Congress has already done all it can by classifying all this shit as illegal. What are they going to do?

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They could cut the SNAP program. That would cut the fraud.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 11, 2025 01:34 PM (sX1BW)

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Most of the SNAP overspending is already illegal. SNAP isn't supposed to go to non-citizens, and even green card holders can have their immigration statuses revoked if they take welfare.

Immigrants, legal ones, have to have sponsors sign forms saying that the immigrants will not become burdens on the state.

The problem isn't that there aren't laws. The problem is that decades of administrations from city governments to the feds have allowed and fostered illegality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

70 Republicans flounce!

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 01:36 PM (2L+MU)

71 Have you guys no empathy for the poor criminal illegal invading and stealing Somalians?!?

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 01:36 PM (xvV+O)

72 19 Timtard will skate. Politicians NEVER pay a price for their serial felonies... felonies that would make a private sector embezzler blush.
Posted by: Truck Monkey

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Martha Stewart at December 11, 2025 01:37 PM (W2Pud)

73 The problem is that decades of administrations from city governments to the feds have allowed and fostered illegality."

Why not? It's not their money...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:37 PM (XuXeR)

74 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (Ij7mQ)

75 Tim Walz uses Calibri font

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

76 Walz will slip across the border to Manitoba, disguised as an itinerant lightning rod salesman.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (npFr7)

77 I'm going to say this... I've heard they want to start pressuring Hegseth. If this congress starts doing things to Trump's people BEFORE holding anyone from the past 10 years accountable... like say Judges.... I don't want to hear any crying about the midterms..

Posted by: Inogame at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (53oGX)

78 75 Tim Walz uses Calibri font

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

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Yeah, well, so do you.

Therefore, Elric is Tim Walz.

That's called a syllogism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

79 77 I'm going to say this... I've heard they want to start pressuring Hegseth. If this congress starts doing things to Trump's people BEFORE holding anyone from the past 10 years accountable... like say Judges.... I don't want to hear any crying about the midterms..

Posted by: Inogame at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (53oGX)

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Hegseth is yesterday's news.

He got impeached and thrown in jail for Signalgate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

80 I think this would be hilarious:

Towards the final weeks of the General Election, it was discovered that there was a massive amount of fraud going on with donations for the Presidential election. There were fake non-profits popping up and collecting for Harris/Walz (so they said). Many of these were bogus, and just phishing opportunities for fraudsters, to say nothing of people who actually contributed money to these fake non-profits.

It would be HILARIOUS if most of these operations were being orchestrated by Somali immigrants.

Posted by: Orson at December 11, 2025 01:39 PM (dIske)

81 This could get bad enough to the democrat brand that Timmy is accused of a sexual impropriety with a workmate. Even worse he could be accused of it being a female and not male.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 01:39 PM (xvV+O)

82 43 I'd like to see a crack team led by DataRepublican and Big Balls send AI audit spiders up this sad poofter's stretched asshole and uncover every shady, filthy thing he's ever done.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:32 PM

I'd love for this to happen but I don't want to see it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2025 01:39 PM (dtf79)

83 Expose them all, drum them out of power

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 01:39 PM (xcxpd)

84
English to Somali translation:

Steal = Xatooyo
Cheat = khiyaamo
Suckers = Nuugista
Grift = Gariir
Stupid American = Nacas Maraykan ah

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 01:39 PM (IifOV)

85
Proof of death for Joey will be when they bring a little girl into his hospital room and he stops sniffing.

Posted by: Auspex at December 11, 2025 01:39 PM (Y8DZL)

86 By the way, the money that these Somalians stole, with help from Walz, Ellison and Omar was OUR F*CKING MONEY! They stole from us. And 1/2 the country couldn't care less.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (Dv3i1)

87 Tim Walz uses Calibri font

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

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Yeah, well, so do you.

Therefore, Elric is Tim Walz.

That's called a syllogism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, but I use Calibri in a very manly, powerful way ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

88 "Politicians NEVER pay a price for their serial felonies... felonies that would make a private sector embezzler blush."

+++

A private who loses a rifle gets in more trouble than a general who loses a war.

Posted by: Pentagon bathroom stall at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (Ij7mQ)

89 dammit

working and missed the font thread!

lol anyway the left is lying the change was just bc MS default changed.

it's the lying part that annoys

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (emBoF)

90
Calibri vs. TNR?

Lame. Maybe it can be the undercard for the Antiqua vs. Fraktur fight.

Posted by: Vince McMahon at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (BI5O2)

91 20 *arms fling around wildly like Kermit the frog*
Posted by: Piper

What perfect, and perfectly hilarious, imagery!

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (2L+MU)

92 That's called a syllogism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

So that's what you kids are calling it these days.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (77rzZ)

93 Not make speeches, hell, not even charge them. They have to be convicted and spend time in jail.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 01:28 PM (sKqQm)

"Shot while resisting arrest" works, too. Also cheaper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (npFr7)

94 Oh. And did y’all see a federal judge ordered the release of Maryland Man

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (W2Pud)

95 87 Yea, but I use Calibri in a very manly, powerful way ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

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With effete grace?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

96 James Comer: We'll Subpoena Tampon Tim Walz to Prove His Involvement In Somali Fraud

Great.
Now do Gov Ferguson from Washington.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (2WIwB)

97 That's called a syllogism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

I've done that by the bucket full.

Posted by: Kamala at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (fexSQ)

98 95 87 Yea, but I use Calibri in a very manly, powerful way ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

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With effete grace?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

It's a very David Niven font.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (xcxpd)

99 A private who loses a rifle gets in more trouble than a general who loses a war.
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A private who loses a rifle gets in more trouble than a Secretary of State who loses every single email she sent or received.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (TN0g+)

100 72 19 Timtard will skate. Politicians NEVER pay a price for their serial felonies... felonies that would make a private sector embezzler blush.
Posted by: Truck Monkey

Tell me about it.
Posted by: Martha Stewart

Not so fast!

Posted by: Rod Blagojovich at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (Dv3i1)

101 Nothing is going to happen to Tim Walz unless he is live streamed singing show tunes, while holding up lyrics posters rendered in a 72pt Calibri font, in a DT Minneapolis gay bar wearing nothing but a tiara, blue eye shadow, a lime green feather boa, high heels. In that case he will be kicked to curb by being elected as a senator.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (uv8gn)

102 Several layers of lawyers between the bag man and little Timmy.

Put all the layers in jail for shits and giggles.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (EyfuW)

103 Calibri is the Comic Sans of Century Schoolbook.

Posted by: Font of Knowledge at December 11, 2025 01:42 PM (Ij7mQ)

104 Le sigh...
I just can't get excited about committee hearings that become demo reels for fundraising pitches.
sorry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
......

It makes for really crappy TV.

Posted by: wth at December 11, 2025 01:42 PM (v0R5T)

105 > Of course, Democrats have a long history of enriching themselves in office:

As much as I despise Nancy Pelosi, I prefer her stock tip method of self-enrichment over straight up freaking stealing from the taxpayer. Seriously, guys. Just invest in the companies you know are going to get big gov't contracts.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 01:42 PM (Yp6az)

106 102 Several layers of lawyers between the bag man and little Timmy.

Put all the layers in jail for shits and giggles.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (EyfuW)

So you're saying he has a lot of buffers.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2025 01:42 PM (dtf79)

107 94 Oh. And did y’all see a federal judge ordered the release of Maryland Man
Posted by: nurse ratched

At some point, DoJ has to let him do the squatters' rights thing in one of these judges houses.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 01:43 PM (Dv3i1)

108 Tim Walz uses Calibri font"

I use a Colibri lighter...

Heyohhh....

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:43 PM (XuXeR)

109 @shipwreckedcrew
·
43m
I'm going to read Judge Xinis ruling today and then decide whether to write a story. Haven't even looked at the first page yet, but I have one curious observation to the reporting that her decision is based on the Govt failing to produce an actual Order of Removal ---

In the opening of his Complaint which brought the case into her court, Abrego Garcia conceded he's subject to an Order of Removal.

I'm not sure it's proper for her to revisit a factual matter that the opposition conceded at the outset.

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An observation from shipwreckedcrew about the Xinis order for Maryland Man.

I suspect appeal, stay, and overturn are happening soon, all while Maryland Man remains behind bars.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

110 This is the same Certified Tuff Guy who is letting clown judge Bonerburger wave his ass his face and laugh at him?

Or is the the Certified Tuff Guy who is still begging the Clintons to come in and testify about their trips to see Epstein?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 01:43 PM (HXT0k)

111 Please don't talk about gisms. There are ladies present. And whatever ace is.

Posted by: silo of wut? at December 11, 2025 01:44 PM (LUxM5)

112 I moved to Minnesota for college when I was 17 and I've been here a long time. I always found the liberals here pretty crazy. I think the Scandinavian culture made them further left than most of the country. Now their far-left culture has merged with TDS to make them completely crazy.

Look at Ellison. He won for AG even though everyone knew about his radical anti-cop background and domestic abuse allegations.

Posted by: Dave at December 11, 2025 01:44 PM (sbsMc)

113 Oh no, not just wives- the CHILDREN of political opponents.

Fuck all of Virginia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 01:44 PM (h4uy9)

114 Fonts should be stirred, not shaken.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 01:44 PM (EyfuW)

115 94 Oh. And did y’all see a federal judge ordered the release of Maryland Man. - nurse ratched

Guy must be starting to feel like a tether ball.

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 01:44 PM (2L+MU)

116 If Timmy stole, er, I mean redirected graft from higher-ups into his own pocket then his ass is grass.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 01:44 PM (Q+gd/)

117 16 Is there somewhere I can send a check?
Posted by: IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!

Me too! Will you triple match my contribution like last time?

Posted by: Auspex at December 11, 2025 01:45 PM (Y8DZL)

118 104 Le sigh...
I just can't get excited about committee hearings that become demo reels for fundraising pitches.
sorry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
......

It makes for really crappy TV.
Posted by: wth at December 11, 2025 01:42 PM (v0R5T)

So does the Court Martial of Billy Mitchell.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 01:45 PM (xcxpd)

119 116 If Timmy stole, er, I mean redirected graft from higher-ups into his own pocket then his ass is grass.
Posted by: davidt

I think Walz made it a point of pride that he had no money. Which makes me think he has help from some knowledgeable people on how to hide it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 01:45 PM (Dv3i1)

120 118 So does the Court Martial of Billy Mitchell.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 01:45 PM (xcxpd)

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"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!"
-Otto Preminger

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

121 Dear Gov Tim
You are a stain. A nasty disgusting stain. The kind of stain left on fabric after a woman's tampon fails and she refuses to use peroxide to remove it because she doesn't want to "discolor the fabric" (pro tip the fabric is now discolored anyway). You are the stain left behind when a baby blows out the diaper and gets shit on every stitch of clothing he's wearing (and on whoever is holding him/dealing with the diaper). You are the nasty sweat stain in the armpit region of every shirt you have ever worn. You are ring around the collar.
You are a short, ugly, nasty pile of retarded stains. Go fuck yourself with a rotting coconut and don't forget to light it on fire first.

Regards
Mayhem

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 01:46 PM (2J/Lj)

122 ass is grass"

Or gas. Nobody rides for free...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:47 PM (XuXeR)

123
Did Clinton or Biden set the bar for accumulation of Corrupto-Graft Cash?

I'm thinking it must be the Clintons, possibly Obama cuz he doesn't have to pretend his Corrupto-Graft Cash is for anything beyond his pockets.

But, who knows? There was a lot of cash floating thru the Somalis maybe Walz set the meter on 50% for the Retard.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 01:47 PM (iJfKG)

124 It's ok to talk about gisms.
Just do it while you're alone.
And wash your hands afterwards.

Posted by: Always sound advice at December 11, 2025 01:47 PM (Ij7mQ)

125 Actually stopping SNAP in these states seems a bridge to far for the cowards. They are too afraid of being called names.

What would the dems do if it was something they didn't like? they would stop the funding and if told by a judge to reinstate it, they would ignore the judge. But nope, the repubs like the fraud as much as the dems, they just pretend they don't.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 01:48 PM (n5tGW)

126 This should be done with every politician at every level of local, state, and federal government. DOGE for Everybody.

Posted by: IanDeal at December 11, 2025 01:48 PM (3mCRL)

127 Republicans are just trying to stir up any fake shit they can to hurt Walz. The perpetrators were caught. What's the controversy here?

Trump hates Walz for running against him. This reminds me of ACORN. Bad actors did bad things, they were caught, and the enforcement/oversight mechanism proved to work.

I blame a governor when people under federal immigration laws violate federal laws and defraud federal programs. I am the smartest. /s

I've gone to a couple of events now and heard Walz speak. The man has clarity and integrity.

He doesn't just babble word salad like Trump does.
He knows people, he understands how things work.
He's one of the best governors we've ever had.
I dare you to go and listen to Walz.

Even Walz supporters in the article are dumping in Walz, even when they acknowledge he did nothing wrong! "The buck stops with the governor, I’m sorry it just does,” Reichgott Junge said, adding that while people don’t blame him directly for the fraud, running for a third term is risky.

I don't care if it's Walz or another prominent DFLer, but being upset about this makes y ou are too dumb to breathe.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 11, 2025 01:48 PM (JCZqz)

128 124 It's ok to talk about gisms.
Just do it while you're alone.
And wash your hands afterwards.
Posted by: Always sound advice at December 11, 2025 01:47 PM (Ij7mQ)

And definitely don't drink any GSM.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2025 01:48 PM (dtf79)

129 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 01:46 PM (2J/Lj)

Pure poetry.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:48 PM (77rzZ)

130 Did Clinton or Biden set the bar for accumulation of Corrupto-Graft Cash?
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I'm guessing it was the Clinton Foundation that set the bar.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:48 PM (TN0g+)

131 But, who knows? There was a lot of cash floating thru the Somalis maybe Walz set the meter on 50% for the Retard.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 01:47 PM (iJfKG)

He's facilitating the outright theft of billions. When you have no overhead...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 01:48 PM (h4uy9)

132 Coach Tim Walz and Coach Jerry Sandusky start a tik tok event called shower time, where they compare notes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:48 PM (gm9Sb)

133 Dear Gov Tim"

Am I the only one who read that in the voice of the schoolmarm, Harriet Van Johnson?

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:49 PM (XuXeR)

134 127 Republicans are just trying to stir up any fake shit they can to hurt Walz. The perpetrators were caught. What's the controversy here?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid

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"States should be allowed to foster obvious fraud at any level, and the feds should be responsible for cleaning it up."
-it's a take

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

135 Dear Gov Tim
You are a stain. A nasty disgusting stain. The kind of stain left on fabric after a woman's tampon fails and she refuses to use peroxide to remove it because she doesn't want to "discolor the fabric" (pro tip the fabric is now discolored anyway). You are the stain left behind when a baby blows out the diaper and gets shit on every stitch of clothing he's wearing (and on whoever is holding him/dealing with the diaper). You are the nasty sweat stain in the armpit region of every shirt you have ever worn. You are ring around the collar.
You are a short, ugly, nasty pile of retarded stains. Go fuck yourself with a rotting coconut and don't forget to light it on fire first.

Regards
Mayhem

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 01:46 PM (2J/Lj)

Its even better when you say it over the Grinch music. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 01:49 PM (snZF9)

136 121

Dear Mayhem,

Thank you for your letter. I believe it's vital that elected officials received positive feedback.

I hope I can count on your support in the upcoming election. Please note the link to the donations page of my campaign web site below.

Yours truly,

Tim Walz

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 01:49 PM (2L+MU)

137 They're not big on diversity.

Egypt, Iran Protest Against World Cup Soccer LGBTQI+ “Pride” Match in Seattle

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 11, 2025 01:50 PM (6Vwts)

138 127 I blame a governor when people under federal immigration laws violate federal laws and defraud federal programs. I am the smartest. /s

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 11, 2025 01:48 PM (JCZqz)

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"I don't know how most welfare programs run."
-it's a defense

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

139 Coach Tim Walz and Coach Jerry Sandusky start a tik tok event called shower time, where they compare notes.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

*waves*
-- Coach Denny Hastert

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:50 PM (77rzZ)

140 I moved to Minnesota for college when I was 17 and I've been here a long time. I always found the liberals here pretty crazy. I think the Scandinavian culture made them further left than most of the country. Now their far-left culture has merged with TDS to make them completely crazy.

Posted by: Dave at December 11, 2025 01:44 PM (sbsMc)

When I had a choice of going to an IT school my options were Minneapolis or Portland. I chose Portland. Guess I was screwed either way. Yea me.

Posted by: Shonkin Sag at December 11, 2025 01:50 PM (bdwif)

141 They're not big on diversity.

Egypt, Iran Protest Against World Cup Soccer LGBTQI+ “Pride” Match in Seattle
------

Hey Egypt, Iran--lighten up fellas, its soccer so of *course* its gay.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:51 PM (TN0g+)

142 Republicans issue a lot of subpoenas.

Dried up dogshit >> GOP

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 01:51 PM (abIsI)

143 the Clinton Foundation that set the bar"

The Haiti Bar and Grille?

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:51 PM (XuXeR)

144 Immigrants, legal ones, have to have sponsors sign forms saying that the immigrants will not become burdens on the state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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More than that. The sponsors of immigrants can be held financially liable themselves under some conditions.

Rarely applied today but the legal penalties are still in the law.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 01:52 PM (WDjG6)

145 "...but being upset about this makes y ou are too dumb to breathe."

Guffaw. Being upset about your tax dollars being scammed away to Somalia makes you are pretty smart in my book.

Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 01:52 PM (xNHSX)

146 144 More than that. The sponsors of immigrants can be held financially liable themselves under some conditions.

Rarely applied today but the legal penalties are still in the law.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 01:52 PM (WDjG6)

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"Why doesn't Congress pass more laws?!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

147 118 So does the Court Martial of Billy Mitchell.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 01:45 PM (xcxpd)

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"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!"
-Otto Preminger
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
.......

lol

Posted by: wth at December 11, 2025 01:52 PM (v0R5T)

148 145 "...but being upset about this makes y ou are too dumb to breathe."

Guffaw. Being upset about your tax dollars being scammed away to Somalia makes you are pretty smart in my book.

Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 01:52 PM (xNHSX)

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Now, being upset about the poor Hamas freedom fighters...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

149 Is this about me?

Posted by: Dried up dogshit at December 11, 2025 01:53 PM (Ij7mQ)

150 When I was a kid in Ohio we had a CPUSA hall staffed by a bunch of dour Finns and Skandis. Why they were let in has been a mystery.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:54 PM (gm9Sb)

151 I don't care if it's Walz or another prominent DFLer, but being upset about this makes y ou are too dumb to breathe.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
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Ah yes, the Somalians and Democrats have a pr group out peppering reddit comments to try to ward off investigations. Because in turn they know that some AI models will use Reddit bullshit to generate misleading summaries.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 01:54 PM (WDjG6)

152 121
Dear Gov Tim
...You are a short, ugly, nasty pile of retarded stains. Go fuck yourself with a rotting coconut and don't forget to light it on fire first.

Regards
Mayhem
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
......

You forgot the
xoxo

Posted by: wth at December 11, 2025 01:55 PM (v0R5T)

153 When I was a kid in Ohio we had a CPUSA hall staffed by a bunch of dour Finns and Skandis. Why they were let in has been a mystery.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Bet their parties were a blast, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:55 PM (77rzZ)

154 This seems like a huge deal, and might just be a step towards making the government NOT our enemy.

DOJ Ends 'Disparate Impact Liability' in a Huge Win for Equality Under the Law

https://is.gd/Rja6m0

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 01:56 PM (Riz8t)

155 I don't know how Caroline Leavitt faces that crowd of ignorant twits everyday.
She is such a gem when it comes to her support for this administration.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 01:56 PM (F3Dlr)

156 Get him to say under oath that it didn't happen.

Then charge him with lying to congress.
Posted by: 18-1
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The Hillary gambit:
"I don't recall..."
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repeat 39 times
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.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 01:57 PM (XeU6L)

157 Yea, but I use Calibri in a very manly, powerful way ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

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With effete grace?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

It's a very David Niven font.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 01:41 PM (xcxpd)
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David Niven was quite the stud and a real ladies' man. Just like The Blade!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

158 136
Dear Gov Bitch Tits
unapenda nyonya mbo

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 01:57 PM (2J/Lj)

159 157 David Niven was quite the stud and a real ladies' man. Just like The Blade!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

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Yeah, but Niven actually killed men in battle. So, he's got that going for him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

160 I don't know how Caroline Leavitt faces that crowd of ignorant twits everyday.
She is such a gem when it comes to her support for this administration.
Posted by: old chick

Be nice of her to show up in a bikini once in a while, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:58 PM (77rzZ)

161 At this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 11, 2025 01:58 PM (Ij7mQ)

162 DOJ Ends 'Disparate Impact Liability' in a Huge Win for Equality Under the Law
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Future Headline -
DOJ Restarts 'Disparate Impact Liability' in a Huge Win for Women, Minorities, Immigrants, Basically the Whole World except, well you know who you are

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 01:58 PM (Dv3i1)

163 Timmy Walz needs his timing adjusted. He seems retarded.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 01:58 PM (0sNs1)

164 David Niven was quite the stud and a real ladies' man. Just like The Blade!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

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Yeah, but Niven actually killed men in battle. So, he's got that going for him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:58 PM (GBKbO)
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"I just slay the poon."

-- The Paolo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:58 PM (iFTx/)

165 145 "...but being upset about this makes y ou are too dumb to breathe."

Guffaw. Being upset about your tax dollars being scammed away to Somalia makes you are pretty smart in my book.
Posted by: Delurker

In xim/xer's defense, this persyn is probably a fellow societal leech, so the idea of paying tax dollars is unfathomable, let alone caring abouf how they are spent.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 11, 2025 01:58 PM (JCZqz)

166 Dispensationalists are retards

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 01:59 PM (7neCS)

167 Bet their parties were a blast, though"

Lutefisk for all!

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 02:00 PM (XuXeR)

168 Yeah, but Niven actually killed men in battle. So, he's got that going for him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think it was MP4 who told this story. There was some big party in Hollywood to celebrate Grace Kelly's engagement to Prince Rainier. David Niven was there. Rainier asked Niven who gave the best BJs in Hollywood. Niven was about to say "Grace Kelly," and then remembered who he was talking to.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:01 PM (77rzZ)

169 166 Dispensationalists are retards
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 01:59 PM

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It depends which font they choose to use.

Posted by: Bookman Old Style at December 11, 2025 02:02 PM (Ij7mQ)

170 Times New Roman is the Freedom Font

Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 02:02 PM (xNHSX)

171 I blame a governor when people under federal immigration laws violate federal laws and defraud federal programs. I am the smartest. /s
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This would be the same people who claim illegals are not getting Medicare because federal Medicare reimbursements are paid to the states ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 02:03 PM (HXT0k)

172 What is the biggest problem for somalis, aside from the corruption, inbreeding, and mental deficiency, is that this is now a federal story and walz and his retard retinue do have enough sway to do anything.

they are getting fucked harder than ilhan omar getting spit roasted but her father and brother at the family reunion.

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:03 PM (7neCS)

173 171 I blame a governor when people under federal immigration laws violate federal laws and defraud federal programs. I am the smartest. /s
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This would be the same people who claim illegals are not getting Medicare because federal Medicare reimbursements are paid to the states ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 02:03 PM (HXT0k)

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And directly to hospitals!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

174 159 David Niven was a Sandhurst grad, saw serious action in WW2, and after his demise was honored by the porters at Heathrow Air Port for just being a gentleman. Fun fact. His "batman" an officers aide/valet during combat excursions was Peter Ustinov.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 02:03 PM (gm9Sb)

175 Rep. Bennie Thompson, in House Homeland Security Committee hearing, referred to the murder of the two WV National Guard soldiers as an "unfortunate accident." I have to say, I dislike when politicians reveal how their mother's referred to them when growing up.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 02:04 PM (uv8gn)

176 "Why doesn't Congress pass more laws?!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

At some point, the multiplicity of laws and regulations end up with constipation of the legal process. And that leaves out the corruption of the legal processes and judges.

That is one of the signs of a decaying political institutions and culture--the enforcement of the rule of law becomes spotty and mostly directed toward the regime's enemies while excusing its friends.

Enjoyed a couple of your videos on the sequels and Orson Welles. Well done. Minor quibble on Orson Welles episode I saw is that the tinkling piano background music becomes annoying and distracting after a time when you are talking. The sequels episode used music for the visuals better and I noted an absence when you are discussing John Carter and King Arthur.

And like you, I liked Chimes of Midnight as my favorite Orson Welles movie. Although Macbeth and Othello are admirable as well. I even prefer Touch of Evil to Citizen Kane.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:04 PM (WDjG6)

177 166 Dispensationalists are retards
Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 01:59 PM

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It depends which font they choose to use.
Posted by: Bookman Old S

illiterates have no worries about fonts

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:04 PM (7neCS)

178 175 Rep. Bennie Thompson, in House Homeland Security Committee hearing, referred to the murder of the two WV National Guard soldiers as an "unfortunate accident." I have to say, I dislike when politicians reveal how their mother's referred to them when growing up.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 02:04 PM (uv8gn)

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If SCOTUS overturns Gingles or outright declares Section 2 of the VRA unconstitutional, Thompson will most likely be drawn out of office by Mississippi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

179 Oh yes, Congress was all over the ACORN fraud.... after James O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart shamed them into it.

Posted by: pookysgirl remembers at December 11, 2025 02:05 PM (Wt5PA)

180 Be nice of her to show up in a bikini once in a while, though.
Posted by: Bulg

Honestly, after the ignorant comments re the press secretary should not be allowed to enjoy a beach day, I would absolutely love for Caroline to stroll into the press room in an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini and a smirk.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 02:05 PM (F3Dlr)

181 Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:01 PM (77rzZ)

Niven should have said it. Then quickly add, "you're a lucky man!"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:05 PM (2J/Lj)

182 His "batman" an officers aide/valet during combat excursions was Peter Ustinov.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Wow. Niven and Ustinov were both such great raconteurs. Must've been fun to be around them (when not in combat, of course).

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:05 PM (77rzZ)

183 Get him to say under oath that it didn't happen. Then charge him with lying to congress

This seems political to me. Case dismissed!

Posted by: Federal Judiciary at December 11, 2025 02:05 PM (TlGnK)

184 176 Enjoyed a couple of your videos on the sequels and Orson Welles. Well done. Minor quibble on Orson Welles episode I saw is that the tinkling piano background music becomes annoying and distracting after a time when you are talking. The sequels episode used music for the visuals better and I noted an absence when you are discussing John Carter and King Arthur.

And like you, I liked Chimes of Midnight as my favorite Orson Welles movie. Although Macbeth and Othello are admirable as well. I even prefer Touch of Evil to Citizen Kane.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:04 PM (WDjG6)

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Thanks!

I throw music that kind of fits the overall theme just to help paper over cuts in the video and help drown out other dead noise sounds. It's meant to be barely audible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

185 175 Rep. Bennie Thompson, in House Homeland Security Committee hearing, referred to the murder of the two WV National Guard soldiers as an "unfortunate accident." I have to say, I dislike when politicians reveal how their mother's referred to them when growing up.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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He is the corrupt SOB head of the Jan 6 Nanzi Pelosi hit squad committee. Violated House rules by encrypting and destroying much of the evidence collected that was exonerating. Nasty corrupt piece of shit. And I hope he goes bye bye if Majority Minority districts are ruled unconstitutional.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:06 PM (WDjG6)

186 Congress will get to the bottom of this corruption!

Oh, I forgot. They're already there.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 02:06 PM (aZ9eR)

187 If you haven't read David Niven's memoir, The Moon's a Balloon, (and its follow-up volume, Bring On the Empty Horses) you're missing out on an extremely well-written, entertaining (although sometimes sad) memoir.

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 02:06 PM (2L+MU)

188 So nothing at the hq about Huckabee and 1000 pastors going to Israel so they could get educated?

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:07 PM (7neCS)

189 Well, time for me to get armored up in cold-weather gear and go plug in the Suburban. Sub-zero temps here, and I'm not talking Centigrade.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 02:07 PM (npFr7)

190 I kinda doubt Comer called Walz Tampon Tim but I hope he did.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at December 11, 2025 02:07 PM (8CIFn)

191 Minnesota has not even gotten half what it deserves for its stupidity

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:08 PM (7neCS)

192 >> Walz is running for his fourth term as Minnesota governor. I'd like to think that even leftwing Minnesotans have had enough, but we can't forget that left-wing Virginians happily voted for an AG who advocated for killing cops and killing political opponents' wives.

They should rename Minnesota, “The Gimp State”.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 11, 2025 02:08 PM (EWq0C)

193 What does all this have to do with Bamboo, though??

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:08 PM (pDt9x)

194 Well, time for me to get armored up in cold-weather gear and go plug in the Suburban. Sub-zero temps here, and I'm not talking Centigrade.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 02:07 PM (npFr7)
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I thought you'd be down south by now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 02:08 PM (A0sqA)

195 Garamond is best for Bible verses.

Posted by: It's the font of every blessing at December 11, 2025 02:08 PM (Ij7mQ)

196 It's small potatoes of a gripe, but i really can't stand hearing people say "we're serious, we really mean it" blah blah.

Never say crap like that. Just *be* serious. *Mean* it.

Don't threaten to subpoena. Just send the subpoena. Do. Act. Let them have to report the "news" in the past tense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:09 PM (Vq1pX)

197 191 Minnesota has not even gotten half what it deserves for its stupidity
Posted by: n

We have not yet begun to lower the state's IQ!

Posted by: Muhammed Paul Jones at December 11, 2025 02:09 PM (JCZqz)

198 Sadly, I have run out of cottage cheese.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:09 PM (2J/Lj)

199 Minnesotas have the confidence of knowing they are better than everybody else because they are smug.

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:09 PM (7neCS)

200 There just isn’t a limit on the number of times Minnesotans will bend over and pick up that quarter, is there.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 11, 2025 02:09 PM (EWq0C)

201 ConfederateFilth loves Calibri font. And Hamas, probably.

Posted by: Hating Jews is totes pro-Israel. Totes. at December 11, 2025 02:09 PM (TbWk/)

202 166 Dispensationalists are retards
Posted by: n

I'll grant you that.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 02:10 PM (Dv3i1)

203 ConfederateFilth loves Calibri font. And Hamas, probably.
Posted by: Hating

not as hard as your dad loved the fuck out of you

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:10 PM (7neCS)

204 Thanks!

I throw music that kind of fits the overall theme just to help paper over cuts in the video and help drown out other dead noise sounds. It's meant to be barely audible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Mixing audio is a pita when coupled with video editing. Back when I had to do a video series for a grant, I used Audacity as a separate sound editor and mixer and only used my video editing software to set overall sound levels for the segments. The newer video editors are apparently a lot better at audio mixing in house making that step unnecessary.

FWIW, Nice camera angles and visual look atypical of most of the boring sludge you find YT.

You are a natural for the camera and holding engagement for longish video segments and your enthusiasms for movies comes out in your videos.

I was sleepy for the last one and yet your presentation was compelling enough to keep me awake on movies I really had little desire to see (the sequels episode).

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:11 PM (WDjG6)

205 Sunday is not looking fun. High of 14 and a low of 2.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 02:11 PM (zZu0s)

206 It's funny how minnesoodas vote for Tim The Retard so he can usher in the socialist paradise they all want to live in.

Except...

Posted by: Tards Are Goona Tard at December 11, 2025 02:11 PM (FGMmt)

207 I don't know how Caroline Leavitt faces that crowd of ignorant twits everyday.
She is such a gem when it comes to her support for this administration.
Posted by: old chick

Q: What happens to the oil on the tanker you seized near Venezuela?

PRESIDENT TRUMP: We keep the oil, I guess!

Q: Where does it go?

TRUMP: You're a good news man. Just get a helicopter and go follow the tanker!

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Get to da choppa!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 11, 2025 02:12 PM (6Vwts)

208 It is funny that most dispensationalists do not even know what dispensationalism is

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:12 PM (7neCS)

209 Whatvis with everyone taking trolls seriously?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 02:12 PM (zZu0s)

210 198 Sadly, I have run out of cottage cheese.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:09 PM

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No doubt due to climate change.

Posted by: The alleged experts at December 11, 2025 02:12 PM (Ij7mQ)

211 206 It's funny how minnesoodas vote for Tim The Retard so he can usher in the socialist paradise they all want to live in.

Except...
Posted by: Tards Are Goona Tard

That sort of attitude reminds me of the Dead Kennedy's 'Holiday in Cambodia' song. Minnesota nice will turn up as Minnesotans dead before all these Somalians are civilized or expelled.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:14 PM (WDjG6)

212 210 198 Sadly, I have run out of cottage cheese.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:09 PM

+++
No doubt due to climate change.
Posted by: The alleged experts at December 11, 2025 02:12 PM (Ij7mQ)

Maybe she has just gotten really serious about fitness. Or Ozempic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

213 I am Southern Baptist, Calvinist, Partial Preterist. Parse that out. I stay quiet at church, some.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:14 PM (pDt9x)

214 Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? If somebody would have told that....

Posted by: Hunty B at December 11, 2025 02:14 PM (kwWDM)

215 When I moved away from MN two years ago I thought I'd never have to hear about this clown ever again. Imagine my surprise. His Lt Gov is a psycho. Tired of it. Tired tired tired

Posted by: jhawk90 at December 11, 2025 02:15 PM (ggOdn)

216 Well, Democrat.

Ohio Democrat Sworn Into City Council Seat Hours After Arrest on Child Sex Abuse Charges

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 11, 2025 02:15 PM (6Vwts)

217 Damn. Now I want cottage cheese.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:15 PM (77rzZ)

218 No doubt due to climate change.
Posted by: The alleged experts

Really? Here I was blaming Trump. Well alrighty then!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:16 PM (2J/Lj)

219
I blame a governor when people under federal immigration laws violate federal laws and defraud federal programs. I am the smartest. /s

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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At the same time, I insist that the federal government provide all the money my state asks for without my state providing eligibility info on the recipients.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 11, 2025 02:16 PM (1N/bM)

220 Minnesota

1- imports huge number of Africans
2- spends taxpayer money to bring them here
3- spends state and federal taxpayer money to support them
4- allows so many Africans into the state, they form one of the largest voting blocks, who incidentally votes to give themselves more money
5- the Africans never assimilate and turn the “community” into what they left; a failed state, rife with fraud, warring with each other for tax money, forcing their backwards religion on everyone, and getting Democrat politicians to dance like retarded, obsequious marionettes on a string

Keep voting like it’s a team sport, Minnesota. You go girl.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 11, 2025 02:16 PM (EWq0C)

221 209 Whatvis with everyone taking trolls seriously?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I think some of this is personal animosities coming out not trolls per se.

The worst 'trolls' are not the drive by types that crap on the pages and leave. The worst are grudge types like the dude that kept pasting everything destroying threads, or the types trying to emulate Stormfront to lose Ace ad revenue.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:16 PM (WDjG6)

222 ot:

If even one snowflake flounces out of State it'd be worth it for the laughs. Let alone State being one degreed less gay.

Posted by: DaveA at December 11, 2025 02:16 PM (FhXTo)

223 They keep electing Walz, so they must like the way he rolls. I will not go go to Minnesota, it is a silly place.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:17 PM (pDt9x)

224
>>During his tenure, Comer uncovered bank records showing that Hunter Biden received $6.5 million from Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, where he served on the board despite lacking expertise, with testimony from Devon Archer revealing that Hunter placed Joe Biden on speakerphone over 20 times with foreign associates to sell the "Biden brand" for influence, and allegations that Joe Biden's push to oust prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2015 aligned suspiciously with Burisma's pressure on Hunter for protection.

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By the way, whatever happened about that?

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 02:17 PM (1N/bM)

225 Ohio Democrat Sworn Into City Council Seat Hours After Arrest on Child Sex Abuse Charges
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 11, 2025 02:15 PM (6Vwts)

I guess if he also wanted to murder the kids, he'd be ok in Virginia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 02:18 PM (zZu0s)

226 Georgia: Guess what 'Republican' just told
@AAGDhillon
to pound sand when she asked for the voter rolls required available to DOJ under Federal HAVA law?

Used condoms >> GOP

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 02:18 PM (abIsI)

227 ConfederateFilth loves Calibri font. And Hamas, probably.
Posted by: Hating Jews is totes pro-Israel. Totes. at December 11, 2025 02:09 PM (TbWk/)

It's confederatefifth, not filth, insomniac, and you know it.

If you want to be insulting own it.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 02:18 PM (F3Dlr)

228 The only photo I will every look at is Pedo Mouth Walz in an orange jumpsuit.

He will probably be happy at the "attention" in gen pop.

I like to say "gen pop" like a gangsta.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 11, 2025 02:18 PM (WONhk)

229 215 When I moved away from MN two years ago I thought I'd never have to hear about this clown ever again. Imagine my surprise. His Lt Gov is a psycho. Tired of it. Tired tired tired
Posted by: jhawk90

In movies, a dramatic exit out of a town should be like Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter. Too bad you could not have had a similar exit from Minnesota back in the day.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:18 PM (WDjG6)

230 Don’t forget lip gloss.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 11, 2025 02:19 PM (UD7Dt)

231 Maybe she has just gotten really serious about fitness. Or Ozempic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 02:14 PM (zZu0s

No. I just like cottage cheese. Especially when topped with bacon bits.

I had to stop the weight loss medication I was taking because it was fucking with my blood pressure. I refuse to use Ozempic or the other injection types. That shit is insanely expensive.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:19 PM (2J/Lj)

232 Used condoms >> GOP
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 02:18 PM (abIsI)

A used rubber most likely served its purpose.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:19 PM (Vq1pX)

233 217 Damn. Now I want cottage cheese.
Posted by: Bulg

ricotta>cottage cheese but Culver's fried cheese curds rules them all.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:19 PM (WDjG6)

234 During his tenure, Comer uncovered bank records showing that Hunter Biden received $6.5 million from Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, where he served on the board despite lacking expertise.

So? It's not like I was washing my junk in the sink or taking a dump on the floor.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Sex Pest at December 11, 2025 02:20 PM (FGMmt)

235 198 Sadly, I have run out of cottage cheese.
Posted by: Madamemayhem

No problem at all!!! I've got you covered!
https://shorturl.at/MuU2d

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 11, 2025 02:20 PM (JCZqz)

236 You are a natural for the camera and holding engagement for longish video segments and your enthusiasms for movies comes out in your videos.

I was sleepy for the last one and yet your presentation was compelling enough to keep me awake on movies I really had little desire to see (the sequels episode).

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:11 PM (WDjG6)

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I'm gonna go full German Expressionistic at this rate!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

237 ricotta>cottage cheese but Culver's fried cheese curds rules them all.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:19 PM (WDjG6)

I'd agree on this one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

238 ricotta>cottage cheese but Culver's fried cheese curds rules them all.
Posted by: whig

I'm a turophile, so my wife gave me a bunch of cheese products from Aldi for my birthday last month. Cheese curds were among them. I don't think I'd ever have cheese curds before. Damn, were they ever good.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:21 PM (77rzZ)

239 Yay. Months of hearings and committees and meetings and subpoenas and commissions and testimonies and investigations and lawyers and Strongly Worded Letters and agendas all culminating in a 1000 page SCATHING report that nobody will read and nobody gets held accountable for anything.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 11, 2025 02:22 PM (V362x)

240 I'm gonna go full German Expressionistic at this rate!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That means your future episodes are in black and white I guess.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:22 PM (WDjG6)

241 I'm gonna go full German Expressionistic at this rate!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I love the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

242 At this point, there are three possibilities for Walz

1. He is monumentally incompetent.
2. He knew about the fraud and deliberately covered his eyes and let it happen.
3. He is at least hip deep in it.

The funny part is he has to plead to the first possibility as the least damaging to his political career. I, for one, cannot wait for the 2028 Democratic Debate featuring Kamala Harris and Tim Walz! Talk about your MUST SEE television!

Posted by: JB1000 at December 11, 2025 02:23 PM (tLjC6)

243 ricotta>cottage cheese but Culver's fried cheese curds rules them all.
Posted by: whig

Uhhh.. No. Sorry whig. I find ricotta cheese repulsive. Ick. Just no.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:23 PM (2J/Lj)

244 nobody gets held accountable for anything.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 11, 2025 02:22 PM (V362x)

Well we're not just going to pay them all hundreds of millions of dollars just to sit around doing nothing!

They gotta earn it!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:23 PM (Vq1pX)

245 I'm a turophile, so my wife gave me a bunch of cheese products from Aldi for my birthday last month. Cheese curds were among them. I don't think I'd ever have cheese curds before. Damn, were they ever good.
Posted by: Bulg
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I pity those with lactose intolerance. Cheese is great, cheese is good, thank Jesus for this food.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:23 PM (WDjG6)

246 David Strom has a truly great article up about the meaning and methods of the so-called "woke right". Put it better than I ever could.

And he details why Tucker Carlson - and this is not hyperbole, I've felt it myself ever since he made his turn - is the most dangerous man for Trump's conservative movement alive today. Tucker is absolutely doing everything he can do to try and destroy Trump's MAGA movement from the inside, and he is far more influential than Kristol or the Bulwark clowns ever were.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 02:23 PM (uWKK8)

247 Timmy will get shafted by Mr.Shaft.

Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Shaft)
You damn right
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?
(Shaft)
Can you dig it

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 02:23 PM (EyfuW)

248 So we have this right, having 1000 pastors and our ambassador go to Israel, so the get schooled , is of no concern? Why do pastors need teaching from Israel over anything, why is our ambassador there? How is asking that hating Israel?

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 02:24 PM (7neCS)

249 During his tenure, Comer uncovered bank records showing that Hunter Biden received $6.5 million from Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, where he served on the board despite lacking expertise.

This is one of those things that just floats out there in plain site and if you disagree you are a "conspiracy theorist"

A foreign company hires the VP's son and gives him a crazy sum of money but you see...its not a bribe. Burisma hired him because he is so knowledgeable and smart. And yes leftists will tell you that verbatim.

Note if a foreign country did this with one of Trump's kids this would be enough to indict him...and Trump.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:24 PM (sKqQm)

250 Madmayhem has come to kick ass and eat cottage cheese.
And she's all out of cottage cheese.
Uh oh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 02:24 PM (D+mpw)

251 Cheese is great, cheese is good, thank Jesus for this food.
Posted by: whig

*fist bump*

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:24 PM (77rzZ)

252 Uhhh.. No. Sorry whig. I find ricotta cheese repulsive. Ick. Just no.
==
HOW DO YOU MAKE LASAGNA????? 🙀

Posted by: Hunty B at December 11, 2025 02:24 PM (kwWDM)

253 Cheese curds should squeak when you bite them. Frying them seems anti squeak.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:25 PM (2J/Lj)

254 I think some of this is personal animosities coming out not trolls per se.

Personal animosities.
I hate you, you hate me.
You, me, and our hate makes three.
Why don't you kill yourself?

Posted by: Hate Jazz at December 11, 2025 02:25 PM (Z9WsK)

255 nobody gets held accountable for anything.

I remember when Trump gave Tenet an award.

In the old days a screw up like that would have gotten you literally crucified.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 02:25 PM (sKqQm)

256 There used to be a shop in Nazareth, PA called "Cheeses of Nazareth"

Don't know if it's still there or not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 02:25 PM (Vq1pX)

257 Smartmatic was founded by, Venezuelans, Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate in 2000. They developed the technology for electronic voting systems used in various elections worldwide.

North America; U.S., South America; Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Europe; Netherlands, UK, Asia; Philippines, India; Africa

Smartmatic’s history is fraught with various conflicts, particularly surrounding allegations of election fraud, issues in Venezuela, and controversies in the Philippines and the U.S.

These conflicts have led to significant legal challenges and have complicated the company’s efforts to establish itself as a trustworthy provider of voting technologies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 02:25 PM (xgeFZ)

258 2006 CNN w/ Lou Dobbs: Democracy for Sale - Smartmatic owns US based Sequioa

youtube.com/watch?v=PJpjrgPrdHY

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 02:25 PM (xgeFZ)

259 245 I'm a turophile, so my wife gave me a bunch of cheese products from Aldi for my birthday last month. Cheese curds were among them. I don't think I'd ever have cheese curds before. Damn, were they ever good.
Posted by: Bulg
=====
I pity those with lactose intolerance. Cheese is great, cheese is good, thank Jesus for this food.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:23 PM (WDjG6)

Another proof that God is good. During my early tick bite allergy phase, dairy was no bueno, but now all is well again. Can even have some pork now!! But still, no beef, alas.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 02:26 PM (pDt9x)

260 Uhhh.. No. Sorry whig. I find ricotta cheese repulsive. Ick. Just no.
Posted by: Madamemayhem
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Some people do, I don't. But, then again I make Italian and Mediterranean dishes a lot when I can cook. Plus there is a wide variance in quality from brands in regards to cottage cheese or Ricotta.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:26 PM (WDjG6)

261 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

262 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

263 NOOD. MTG.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

264 HOW DO YOU MAKE LASAGNA????? 🙀
Posted by: Hunty B at December 11, 2025 02:24 PM (kwWDM)

I hate lasagna.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 02:27 PM (2J/Lj)

265 Months of hearings and committees and meetings and subpoenas and commissions and testimonies and investigations and lawyers and Strongly Worded Letters and agendas all culminating in a 1000 page SCATHING report that nobody will read and nobody gets held accountable for anything.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 11, 2025 02:22 PM (V362x)

This, so much this.
Committees feeling important seems to be important.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 02:27 PM (F3Dlr)

266 Smartmatic’s history is fraught with various conflicts, particularly surrounding allegations of election fraud, issues in Venezuela, and controversies in the Philippines and the U.S.

These conflicts have led to significant legal challenges and have complicated the company’s efforts to establish itself as a trustworthy provider of voting technologies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 02:25 PM (xgeFZ)

For any number of reasons, breaking Venezuela's current government is one of the best things the US could possibly do. Fortunately Trump appears to have realized that before any of us were willing to accept the idea.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 02:27 PM (uWKK8)

267 Another proof that God is good. During my early tick bite allergy phase, dairy was no bueno, but now all is well again. Can even have some pork now!! But still, no beef, alas.
Posted by: tubal

I am so sorry about that. I don't make a lot of beef dishes but when I do, I enjoy it. Trying to lose weight for surgery so eating more fish and veggies with the occasional pork and chicken.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:27 PM (WDjG6)

268 Oh,
Tubal, fwiw, pork sausage can be a decent substitute for ground or minced beef in a meat based spaghetti sauce.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:28 PM (WDjG6)

269 Anyone not recognizing Tucker is a nefarious Pied Piper has a ring in their nose.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 02:29 PM (xgeFZ)

270
Teen fatty Star Trek Academy has Paul Giamatti in it.

I know, "John Adams" series and "Billions" but he cannot act.

Posted by: Auspex at December 11, 2025 02:29 PM (Y8DZL)

271 The old guard from Slow Joe's NIH & CDC should be dragged in. Accurate data or research $$ driven?

CDC data shows rates increasing from 1 in 36 (2020) to 1 in 31 (2022) children by age 8, with substantial Factors in Diagnosis Rise: While genetics play a role, experts point to better screening, increased awareness, broader diagnostic criteria (like including Asperger's), and improved access to services as key driver.

Studies in the US (Minnesota) and Sweden found ASD rates in Somali children to be substantially higher (e.g., 1 in 32 or 1 in 16) than overall averages.

Somali children with ASD are more likely to have an intellectual disability than children from other backgrounds.

Autistic children can receive government money and financial help through programs like Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which provides monthly payments if they meet strict medical/financial criteria, and state-run Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers, plus other benefits like Medicaid for healthcare, but it depends on the child's specific needs, family income, and state of residence, not just having autism.

NEA News, Disproportionality in Special Education Fueled by Implicit Bias

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 11, 2025 02:32 PM (NFX2v)

272 Teen fatty Star Trek Academy has Paul Giamatti in it.

I know, "John Adams" series and "Billions" but he cannot act.
==
Sideways. He seems like he is just doing himself. And hes no Burt Reynolds.

Posted by: Hunty B at December 11, 2025 02:33 PM (kwWDM)

273 Third term, Ace. For those of us living here, it only FEELS like he's been here three already.

Posted by: Landofskybluewater at December 11, 2025 02:35 PM (kKdLx)

274 Hilarious.. Subpoena and they'll ignore.. just like bill and hill. There are no consequences for dims.

Posted by: Zippyslug at December 11, 2025 02:37 PM (/jFSs)

275 That sort of attitude reminds me of the Dead Kennedy's 'Holiday in Cambodia' song. Minnesota nice will turn up as Minnesotans dead before all these Somalians are civilized or expelled.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 02:14 PM (WDjG6)

"Well, you'll work harder with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers 'til you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake"

The DK's would tell it like it was, that's for sure.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 03:04 PM (8avO+)

276 For any number of reasons, breaking Venezuela's current government is one of the best things the US could possibly do. Fortunately Trump appears to have realized that before any of us were willing to accept the idea.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 02:27 PM (uWKK

I like the turn to trying to fix up the Americas rather than sink into the EU sewer.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)

277 His "batman" an officers aide/valet during combat excursions was Peter Ustinov.

Peter Ustinov, but he no longer novs.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 03:56 PM (5xuJ/)

278 Walz is running for a third term, not fourth.

Posted by: Indy Bill at December 11, 2025 04:03 PM (V67C1)

279 Let’s use alphabet- AZ next please. The elected Senators and D reps as well as all the D State executives and legislators. It’s the Cartels, stupid.

Posted by: epador at December 11, 2025 04:09 PM (TRnzq)

280 CBSnews: Luxury cars and private villas: See how Minnesota fraudsters spent millions intended for hungry kids

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 04:19 PM (RHGPo)

281 What's the process for rescinding a state's charter and putting it into Federal Receivership pending trial of the entire state executive branch?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: TmjUtah at December 11, 2025 04:26 PM (cRaXx)

282 Third term, not fourth, but the first two were bad enough.

Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at December 12, 2025 05:04 AM (kvDvI)

Mario Rubio Orders the State Department to Ditch Its Woke... Font

Well if it's woke it's gotta go.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed all diplomats to revert to using the Times New Roman typeface in official communications and criticized his predecessor for shifting to Calibri, a font deemed too woke for the Trump administration.
Two years ago, Rubio's predecessor, Antony Blinken, switched to Calibri, a softer, simpler-shaped, and wider font than Times New Roman, in part to assist individuals with certain visual disabilities such as low vision and dyslexia.

"Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department's official correspondence," Rubio wrote in an "action request," obtained by Reuters and the New York Times.

Times New Roman is lean and angular and masculine. Calibri is "plus-sized" and effeminate. It's a Gay Font.

Rubio reportedly dinged the Blinken-era switch to Calibri as "wasteful" and woke in his Dec. 9 cable to personnel.
"To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department's written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface," Rubio reportedly wrote.

Okay, so this is super-silly, but I'm in a spiteful mood and I don't oppose the instinct to wipe away all vestiges of the old demented Regime, even the trivial ones.

Posted by: Ace at 12:14 PM

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1 st!

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 11, 2025 12:14 PM (Vpqw1)

2 Called the others.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 11, 2025 12:14 PM (O7YUW)

3 Times New Roman has always been my preferred font. Probably because it was the default font on Word for like 20 years.

It just looks professional and clean, and there's an actual difference between the l and the I.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

4 FIRST

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2025 12:15 PM (wtvvX)

5 TO BE FIFTH

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2025 12:15 PM (wtvvX)

6 Okay, so this is super-silly, but I'm in a spiteful mood and I don't oppose the instinct to wipe away all vestiges of the old demented Regime, even the trivial ones.

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"The left can change anything and everything but the right can't change it back for any reason. It's just a small thing, let it go, right?"
-NRO conservatism

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

7 Nice save, if I say so myself...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2025 12:15 PM (wtvvX)

8 Restoring American Culture via Font

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 12:15 PM (Dv3i1)

9 Ha!
I think it is great!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 12:15 PM (2WIwB)

10 Lol.

I mean, the Times is pretty damn "woke" too.

Couldn't have used Garamond or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:16 PM (Vq1pX)

11 The proggies love their display.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 12:16 PM (Q+gd/)

12 Don't even get me started on Wingdings.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 11, 2025 12:16 PM (31p00)

13 Calibri is the Arial of Comic Sans

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2025 12:16 PM (wtvvX)

14 As I said in the Tech Thread this morning: Times New Roman is God's Chosen Font.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 12:16 PM (svLOV)

15 13 Calibri is the Arial of Comic Sans

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2025 12:16 PM (wtvvX)

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I'm not sure Doof will get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

16 My email defaults to Sans Serif.

It works for me. Hey Ace, what font is the default for the comments section at AoS?

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 12:16 PM (TN0g+)

17 Thing is, I can't write in New Times Roman. Varying thicknesses, serifs, eesh! Calibri suits me better.

Posted by: Otto Penn at December 11, 2025 12:16 PM (vhFJq)

18 In addition, all of Biden's official documents will be converted to comic font types.

Posted by: Dave at December 11, 2025 12:17 PM (sbsMc)

19 Icarus Blinken flew too close to the sun (yuge, luxurious!).

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 12:17 PM (o2ZRX)

20 I mean, the Times is pretty damn "woke" too.

Couldn't have used Garamond or something?

AFAIK Times New Roman is named for a British newspaper that no longer exists, not the NYT.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 11, 2025 12:17 PM (2ocoG)

21 There's a certain *frisson* one gets in plundering one's enemies, even the pickled okra in their cellar.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 11, 2025 12:17 PM (NYInA)

22 We are The New Rome.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:17 PM (jc0TO)

23 >> Times New Roman has always been my preferred font.

Ditto. And this makes me like Wartime Consigliere Rubio even more.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (w6EFb)

24 Hey Ace - what's the font we're allowed here?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (Vpqw1)

25 That's bold

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (MeJZi)

26 Now I'm curious about what font the HQ uses.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (ph+d0)

27 22 We are The New Rome.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:17 PM (jc0TO)

=====

*considers Nuclear Dog Boy*

*nods sagaciously*

Satyricon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

28 AFAIK Times New Roman is named for a British newspaper that no longer exists, not the NYT.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 11, 2025 12:17 PM (2ocoG)

Boooo stupid reality wrecking the premise of my throw away joke. Booooo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (Vq1pX)

29 They/Them looks better in Calibri. Seriously, that Blinken spent a scintilla of a fraction of a nanosecond pondering over fonts is...mind-numbing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (qBdHI)

30 Finally, a change that makes my life better.

Posted by: Corona_Exile at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (UqsCH)

31 The TRUMP administration could do worse than to reverse every democrat initiative, executive order and law.
That's how bad democrat truly is.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (gxokI)

32 You opened the door with "super silly."

The Crockett challenge.

CROCKETT: "I challenge somebody to go and find a clip of a Democrat invoking violence!"

The GOP response.

https://is.gd/ePoqMd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (L/fGl)

33 I once met the person who created that puffy font that looks like balloon animals made into letters.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (jc0TO)

34 Calibri was chosen for gay reasons ("accessibility!!!!!!"), as though extremely blind people read State Department docs on tiny phones. So yeah, it was chosen for woke reasons.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (Dg7ng)

35 The battle of the fonts 2025!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 12:19 PM (PVeJz)

36 "Helvetica," the documentary. No really, it's better than you're thinking right now.

https://youtu.be/X80kSDxF4rg

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 12:19 PM (3nLb4)

37 32 You opened the door with "super silly."

The Crockett challenge.

CROCKETT: "I challenge somebody to go and find a clip of a Democrat invoking violence!"

The GOP response.

https://is.gd/ePoqMd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (L/fGl)

======

Blatant lying worked better when CBS would ignore it and that's all you needed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

38 This beats the Helvetica outta me.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 11, 2025 12:19 PM (3+0K7)

39 No love for Papyrus? It would make all published papers from the State Department seem deep and meaningful and somehow classier.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM (rbvCR)

40 The font of all wisdom is Times New Roman.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM (L/fGl)

41 The only proper fonts are Copperplate Gothic Bold, Roadgeek, and Courier.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM (wtvvX)

42 39 No love for Papyrus? It would make all published papers from the State Department seem deep and meaningful and somehow classier.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM (rbvCR)

======

As the N'avi would say, "I see you."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

43 No love for Papyrus? It would make all published papers from the State Department seem deep and meaningful and somehow classier.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM

All Trump EOs should be on vellum.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM (jc0TO)

44 43 No love for Papyrus? It would make all published papers from the State Department seem deep and meaningful and somehow classier.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM

All Trump EOs should be on vellum.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM (jc0TO)

======

To cut down on the cow population and do his part to fight global warming, yes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

45 The coming font wars will be epic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM (NwnyJ)

46 Harris/Crockett 2028?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (MeJZi)

47 Courier, bitches.

Mono or GTFO.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (Vq1pX)

48 SWITCHING FONTS BACK TO TNR WILL KILL 200,000 CHILDREN IN THE THIRD WORLD!

Posted by: The Atlantic Magazine! at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (xTIDn)

49 This is the thread for Brick.

Posted by: InZona at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (C6rN0)

50 Sans-serif fonts are generally more Brutalist, so it makes sense the Commies are attracted to them. The big OG sans-serif Helvetica doesn't read that way to me, and there are others that have some actual character though.

Sans-serif is somewhat more readable on low-res computer displays, but at 1080P and up that's not really a problem.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (2ocoG)

51 Was there ever an Old Century Schoolbook?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (3+0K7)

52 46 Harris/Crockett 2028?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (MeJZi)

======

75%, I'd say.

25% is Harris/Buttigieg.

But that's only if Harris feels the need to consolidate factions, which probably won't happen because she'll feel slighted and angry and bitter about everyone. So, she'll follow her own gut and go full black woman rage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

53 So the State Department is being decalibrated?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:22 PM (npFr7)

54 Shouldn't we be moving to Emojis?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 12:22 PM (Wg6v7)

55 Now remove the letter "t" from all the keyboards so they can't refer to the "transgender" abominations anymore. The letter "f" will now double for "t". We'll figure it out. Tofally worf if.

Posted by: Fransgender? Arggghhh!!! at December 11, 2025 12:22 PM (qUkBO)

56 They have that weird sploopy font on kindles for dyslexic people. Supposed to be easier to read. I find it damn near illegible. Switch to that. If for no other reason than to be a dick.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:22 PM (Vq1pX)

57 I can't wait for competing articles on how this doesn't matter and is just tilting at windmills by the PDJT administration

and how this is the worst manifestation of dictatorship by trump forcing people to use a specific font....

-_-

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (v6XNT)

58 More super silly.

Tim Walz Pledges More Somali Immigration to Minnesota As Billion-Dollar Fraud Scandal Rages

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (L/fGl)

59 Morning.

Any font that results in a capital I and lower case l looking identical is clearly an inferior font.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (iAz+5)

60 Now I'm curious about what font the HQ uses.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (ph+d0)

Sandscript 2.0

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (5xuJ/)

61 >>"The left can change anything and everything but the right can't change it back for any reason. It's just a small thing, let it go, right?"
-NRO conservatism

Everything always boils down to the unwritten Communist creed with these people: "What's mine is mine, what's yours is up for grabs."

Statues, names of things, hairstyles, music genres, words, neighborhoods like Harlem, foods, your women, your children, and now... fonts.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (ph+d0)

62
I only started using Calibri because Windows changed over from Arial as it's default. Good luck trying to get your default changed.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (y9nCu)

63 58 More super silly.

Tim Walz Pledges More Somali Immigration to Minnesota As Billion-Dollar Fraud Scandal Rages

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (L/fGl)

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How is Walz going to manage that when he has no control over entry into the United States as governor of a state?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

64 I have to be honest… making a big deal about fonts is probably a waste of time and petty. I’ll go with Helvetica bold oblique

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 12:24 PM (PVeJz)

65 The best part of a Harris/Crockett ticket would be the tension of the impending inevitable public fistfight between them rising each and every day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:24 PM (Vq1pX)

66 It would have been epic if Ace had hacked the HTML/CSS to change the default font for this one post.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 12:24 PM (3nLb4)

67 If for no other reason than to be a dick.

The ransom note font that 80s and 90s Macs came with is the most fun way to be a dick. (Every letter in it is from a different font so it looks like a pasted-together ransom note).

Posted by: Ian S. at December 11, 2025 12:24 PM (2ocoG)

68 Go to comic sans. It's all clown world anyway.

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at December 11, 2025 12:24 PM (ilHZO)

69 64 I have to be honest… making a big deal about fonts is probably a waste of time and petty. I’ll go with Helvetica bold oblique

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 12:24 PM (PVeJz)

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This big deal is Rubio telling one of his IT direct reports to make it happen and then approving a press release.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

70 The Left tore down statues across the country, renamed hundreds of locations and hoisted gay pride flags at American embassies across the globe. Changing fonts is small balls compared to that.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 11, 2025 12:25 PM (TpohM)

71 Tim Walz Pledges More Somali Immigration to Minnesota As Billion-Dollar Fraud Scandal Rages

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (L/fGl)

How is Walz going to manage that when he has no control over entry into the United States as governor of a state?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

You can do anything you set your mind to when you're crooked.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 11, 2025 12:25 PM (iAz+5)

72 I like Copperplate. The engraved look evokes the immutability you strive for in your foes' erasure.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 11, 2025 12:25 PM (NYInA)

73 How is Walz going to manage that when he has no control over entry into the United States as governor of a state?
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Well, there's always Canada.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 12:25 PM (Wg6v7)

74 � � �� .

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:25 PM (jc0TO)

75 Font fail.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:25 PM (jc0TO)

76 I think we can all agree that whoever designed the font for those "live, laugh, love" graphics should be put to the rack.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2025 12:26 PM (wtvvX)

77 This place is a fount of font knowledge/

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:26 PM (IaZ7c)

78 Someone in Trump's admin should reformat all of the *biden era shit with Wingdings.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 12:26 PM (NwnyJ)

79 All the cool GenZers love Calibri to and think Times is a boomer font.

No Im not kidding. The yuutes really are this retarded.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 12:26 PM (9iyS+)

80 Times New Roman is lean and angular and masculine. Calibri is "plus-sized" and effeminate. It's a Gay Font.
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Are we looking for publicity or what?

I prefer MSComic Sans, it's the easiest to read - on microsoft. Other systems don't render it the same way.

But really; Prissy over a font?

I'm hungry.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:27 PM (0XZup)

81 I'm surprised the Bribem admin wasn't using Comic Sans.

I got a lot of milage out of it ...

Posted by: Dan Glibert at December 11, 2025 12:27 PM (3sXRv)

82 I don't know about y'all, but my versions of Microsoft Office switched to Aptos as the default font some time ago.

I don't know if that was Microsoft or my employer that decided the default, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 12:27 PM (ESVrU)

83 Darn. I was hoping they'd change it to Comic Sans.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 12:27 PM (NpAcC)

84 More super silly.

Chuck Schumer Left Unsatisfied After Trying to Bully Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Yeah, Schumer and Hegseth toe to toe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:27 PM (L/fGl)

85 Now I'm curious about what font the HQ uses.

If I'm reading the css correctly, "font-family: Georgia, Century Gothic, tahoma, verdana;", Georgia will be the first one chosen, if your system has it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 12:28 PM (jlI90)

86 Any man what uses Calibri spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at December 11, 2025 12:28 PM (3+0K7)

87 Serif is easier on the eyes. Okay, fine, MY eyes.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:28 PM (pDt9x)

88 The soyface men prefer the Star Wars and Star Trek fonts.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 11, 2025 12:28 PM (ph+d0)

89
They have that weird sploopy font on kindles for dyslexic people. Supposed to be easier to read. I find it damn near illegible. Switch to that. If for no other reason than to be a dick.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:22 PM (Vq1pX)

I used to work with a guy that got his jollies by hopping onto your computer and changing the default language to Chinese. You quickly learned to lock down your screen whenever you took a restroom break.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 12:28 PM (y9nCu)

90 Please tell me Rubio issued the order with a throbbing memo.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 12:28 PM (Q+gd/)

91 Calibri is for emailing your mom

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:29 PM (ZxPkt)

92 I think we can all agree that whoever designed the font for those "live, laugh, love" graphics should be put to the rack.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2025 12:26 PM (wtvvX)

There used to be a day and age when people hung beautiful art prints. Now it's insipid garbage like that.

I hope whoever came up with it winds up in the same circle of Hell as Hitler and Stalin.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 11, 2025 12:29 PM (iAz+5)

93 Spiteful Ace is the best Ace.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

94 Serifs matter.

Posted by: Carolus at December 11, 2025 12:29 PM (TrNJ0)

95 Is Rubio still wearing zipper boots?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 12:29 PM (Wg6v7)

96 It would have been epic if Ace had hacked the HTML/CSS to change the default font for this one post.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 12:24 PM (3nLb4)

change the font?

next you'll want emojis and gifs.

that way lies chaos...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 11, 2025 12:29 PM (v6XNT)

97
What font does whathisname use when he waxes on about bamboo?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:29 PM (w6EFb)

98 The best part of a Harris/Crockett ticket would be the tension of the impending inevitable public fistfight between them rising each and every day.

I don't think either of them want to be in any real position of power because that would require effort, responsibility and undergo constant criticism.

I think they just want to be Influencers and have a huge vanity following.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 12:29 PM (+4Cf6)

99 🫤

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:30 PM (pDt9x)

100 >Now I'm curious about what font the HQ uses.

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Showcard Gothic

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:30 PM (ZxPkt)

101 This is what happens in prison when you have the new fish pinned down on the bunk and you drop his pants and slip it in.

They call it "The Rubio".

Posted by: Warden Norton at December 11, 2025 12:30 PM (FGMmt)

102 I hope whoever came up with it winds up in the same circle of Hell as Hitler and Stalin.
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FDR says 'Heh!'

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 12:30 PM (Wg6v7)

103
I axed yesterday:

Does anyone remember the Calligraphy trend in the late 70's/early 80's?

I received a beginners Calligraphy kit as a kid. Never used it. Because it was gay.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 11, 2025 12:30 PM (bv7gQ)

104 Serif won't like it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:30 PM (jc0TO)

105 Serif Nazis Must Die.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (3+0K7)

106 , what font is the default for the
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Not ace, here, but thinking it's Georgia,Centuury Gothic,tachoma;veranda.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (0XZup)

107 No love for Papyrus? It would make all published papers from the State Department seem deep and meaningful and somehow classier.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:20 PM

All Trump EOs should be on vellum.

We're not even considering stone tablets?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

108 The completely uncalled for font that I adore is "Jefferson" which is based around Thomas Jefferson's cursive handwriting.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (rbvCR)

109 Sans serif fonts like Calibri are clean to look at but can be subject to misreading.
I and l and 1 can look the same, O and 0 etc.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (znfsz)

110 >> Is Rubio still wearing zipper boots?

As JD Vance recounted the other day, Trump bought them all 4 pairs of new shoes. Classy, luxurious shoes fitting of their status.

Seriously, JD said he and Rubio were in the Oval discussing something, and Trump got distracted by their shoes. You guys have shitty shoes, he said, then went out and got a shoe catalogue right then and there and bought them all some decent shoes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (w6EFb)

111 In most jurisdictions, court documents have to be filed in "Courier New," with "Times New Roman" for other paperwork.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (Vpqw1)

112 >>Serif Nazis Must Die

Charlie Don't Serif

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:32 PM (IaZ7c)

113 How many Democrats so far have denounced this change as rayycissss?

And the font as a white oppressive colonizer tool because Roman?

Posted by: Gref at December 11, 2025 12:32 PM (5rh/l)

114 I used to work with a guy that got his jollies by hopping onto your computer and changing the default language to Chinese. You quickly learned to lock down your screen whenever you took a restroom break.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Another fun one, sure to induce rage, was hitting F11 when their browser was open, making it super full screen, back before there was a way to undo it with the mouse. I may have done that once or twice.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 11, 2025 12:32 PM (ph+d0)

115 I am left handed. I am barely legible in handwriting. Yes, a calligraphy kit would be a great gift.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:32 PM (pDt9x)

116 Was there ever an Old Century Schoolbook?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (3+0K7)

Sure, but who wants to learn Cuneiform anymore?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:32 PM (rbvCR)

117 Serif won't like it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:30 PM (jc0TO)

i shot the Serif

but i did not shoot Eras Demi ITC...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 11, 2025 12:32 PM (v6XNT)

118 Tsar Alexander II emancipated the serifs in Russia, leaving the Russian nobility sans serifs.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

119 https://is.gd/ePoqMd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (L/fGl)

Does any male on the left know how to throw a punch.

Beto and Gov. Hair gel ... limp wristed gay boys.

My god what a bunch of effeminate losers

Posted by: Cus D'Amato at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (3sXRv)

120 "Why do you care so much about a font???

-The people who changed the font

Fuck them straight in the kern.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (fexSQ)

121 Calibri apparently is more easily read by handicapped persons. Times Roman, or any serif'd font, is more easily read by normal people.

If Blinken had been honest about the Biden Administration, he would have switched to Comic Sans.

Posted by: Nemo at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (4RPgu)

122 The name of the font even sounds gay.

... And who decided that these people can take all the rainbows and ruin them by making it look like Palestine is dragging it's dirty asshole all over it? They made the rainbow look terrible. Something so naturally beautiful and decided it STILL. WASNT ENOUGH

so they decided the month of June was now theirs as well..

Who said any of this was ok? And by the way, gay should never have been allowed to hijacked by these penis obsessed miscreants. It meant happy, and jolly..

I'm ten short years it went from "just let them marry each other" to "we will define your reality with our mental illness"

The whole thing is wretched

Posted by: melodicmetal at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (cXF9X)

123 120 "Why do you care so much about a font???

-The people who changed the font

Fuck them straight in the kern.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (fexSQ)

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Apply to everything the left does for the past 100 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

124 Sans serif fonts like Calibri are clean to look at but can be subject to misreading.
I and l and 1 can look the same, O and 0 etc.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (znfsz)

I like this chick. She knows what she's talking about. *Fist bump*

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (iAz+5)

125 You know that rubio is just daring the next administration to go to something feminine like Elegance or Brushstrokes.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (TA9gW)

126 I can see the "wasteful" part, and it happens so much in government, they change things as an excuse to spend money.

It's there first thing I thought of here in NYC. Just recently they changed the way the subway map looks for "ease of use" (i.e. for complete fucking morons who didn't know the basics of a map) They put new ones up on all the trains and stations. Then a few weeks later they decided they are going to switch 2 trains, for something like 4 stops. Well that means all new signs and probably overtime for those installing them.

All the stupid trivial changes usually come with large costs. And while since of it might be because government is incompetent and never takes cost in to account, it's probably will more likely just another grift.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (wPOWr)

127 So what makes the Biden font DEI ? It looks gay ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (VE6XX)

128 110 >> Is Rubio still wearing zipper boots?

As JD Vance recounted the other day, Trump bought them all 4 pairs of new shoes. Classy, luxurious shoes fitting of their status.

Seriously, JD said he and Rubio were in the Oval discussing something, and Trump got distracted by their shoes. You guys have shitty shoes, he said, then went out and got a shoe catalogue right then and there and bought them all some decent shoes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (w6EFb)

That is, odd. And yes, I voted for him 3 times.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (pDt9x)

129 Tsar Alexander II emancipated the serifs in Russia, leaving the Russian nobility sans serifs.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

Whatever commendations I bestowed upon your humor this week I take them all back.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:34 PM (fexSQ)

130 is this going to piss off the gays?

Posted by: DanMan at December 11, 2025 12:34 PM (8uzBS)

131 Now I'm curious about what font the HQ uses.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (ph+d0)

Sandscript 2.0

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (5xuJ/)

Pixy Moron

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 11, 2025 12:34 PM (wtvvX)

132 Sans serif? Why do they hate Omar? He was a hell of a bridge player.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 11, 2025 12:34 PM (s0JqF)

133 Personally? I prefer Arial 9 pt font.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 12:34 PM (hS7lz)

134 I wonder if I'm the first to realize that ace gave Rubio a new first name.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

135 Unbelievable. Was looking at the overnight/morning threads, got here, and there were no comments. Total. Rookie. Mistake.

But, read the content. Sans-Serif is excellent for short-form; Serif fonts for longer form.

Arial for my short-form messages, not sure what preferred long-form is, since I don't produce long-form anymore, but it ain't Times New Roman.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 11, 2025 12:34 PM (NcvvS)

136 I struggle with my vision sometimes, so I don't understand why Calibri would be a "better" font for people like me. Times New Roman is crisper and more distinct than Calibri. Heck, even the name has too many letters that are indistinct and easily switched.

Posted by: pookysgirl, almost legally blind at December 11, 2025 12:35 PM (Wt5PA)

137 Gref, we're not allowed to use the Afrika Bambatta fonts.

Remember, "What's ours is ours alone, what's yours is up for grabs."

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 11, 2025 12:35 PM (ph+d0)

138 The guys get shoes!
Trump

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2025 12:35 PM (YwEeS)

139 Helvetica forever!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 12:35 PM (NpAcC)

140 "Why do you care so much about a font???

-The people who changed the font

Oh, it's just whimsy. The real question is why YOU care?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

141 I shot the serif,
But I did not shoot the Century...

Posted by: Bob Marlett at December 11, 2025 12:35 PM (wtvvX)

142 If Rubio wanted to be really spiteful he would change the font used in all Blinken SOS era documents to Comic Sans and use alternating uPpEr AnD lOwEr case LeTtErS.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (uv8gn)

143 Seriously, JD said he and Rubio were in the Oval discussing something, and Trump got distracted by their shoes. You guys have shitty shoes, he said, then went out and got a shoe catalogue right then and there and bought them all some decent shoes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (w6EFb)

That is, odd. And yes, I voted for him 3 times.
Posted by: tubal

Trump isn't wearing anything off the rack.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (hS7lz)

144 Mario?

Posted by: ErikInTexas at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (4b7CV)

145 If you are going to send some diplomatic notice to a country you don't want to use a fag font.

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (YwEeS)

146 He said, 'The Serif's Near!'.

Posted by: garrett Johnson at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (IaZ7c)

147 Clarifying: the next *democrat* administration will go all feminine

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (TA9gW)

148 So what makes the Biden font DEI ? It looks gay ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (VE6XX)

There is an official, serious sort of look to serif fonts. Any place that swims in non-serif fonts is obviously latent in its flaming homosexuality and gayness.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (fexSQ)

149 "Two years ago, Rubio's predecessor, Antony Blinken, switched to Calibri, a softer, simpler-shaped, and wider font than Times New Roman, in part to assist individuals with certain visual disabilities such as low vision and dyslexia."

Democrats would have changed the State Dept font every two years, as each new disabled, disadvantaged, or oppressed group took their turn filing a complaint.

Posted by: Gref at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (5rh/l)

150 Personally? I prefer Arial 9 pt font.

I envy your 28-year-old eyesight.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 12:37 PM (3nLb4)

151 Rubio's gonna drag us back to the Before Calibri Era!

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 12:37 PM (f4tQo)

152 149 "Two years ago, Rubio's predecessor, Antony Blinken, switched to Calibri, a softer, simpler-shaped, and wider font than Times New Roman, in part to assist individuals with certain visual disabilities such as low vision and dyslexia."

Democrats would have changed the State Dept font every two years, as each new disabled, disadvantaged, or oppressed group took their turn filing a complaint.

Posted by: Gref at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (5rh/l)

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"Our highest priorities at the State Department are inclusivity and diversity."
-probably a direct quote from some flunky over the last 5 years

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

153 The name of the font even sounds gay.

... And who decided that these people can take all the rainbows and ruin them by making it look like Palestine is dragging it's dirty asshole all over it? They made the rainbow look terrible. Something so naturally beautiful and decided it STILL. WASNT ENOUGH

so they decided the month of June was now theirs as well..

Who said any of this was ok? And by the way, gay should never have been allowed to hijacked by these penis obsessed miscreants. It meant happy, and jolly..

I'm ten short years it went from "just let them marry each other" to "we will define your reality with our mental illness"

The whole thing is wretched
Posted by: melodicmetal at December 11, 2025 12:33 PM (cXF9X)

you want to know a fun fact?

in the world cup next summer, one of the games played in seattle will be the "GAY GAME" where it's ALL pride, all game.

you know who's in that match? take a guess... any guess... I'll wait....

Iran v Egypt.

playing in THE GAY GAME[u//u]

you can't make this up....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 11, 2025 12:37 PM (v6XNT)

154 This is a bit like removing ghe "W" from White House keyboards after the fall of Lord Obama.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at December 11, 2025 12:37 PM (4b7CV)

155 Serif won't like it.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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He really, really hates it!

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 12:38 PM (TN0g+)

156 Afternoon Ace.
Anything that Blinken did , do the opposite. Thx Marco,well done

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 12:38 PM (D+mpw)

157 Tim Walz Pledges More Somali Immigration to Minnesota As Billion-Dollar Fraud Scandal Rages

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Like pledging during a Jerry Lewis Labor Day Marathon? How does one "pledge" human beings? Is he going over to the sh*thole currently known as Somalia to get them?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 12:38 PM (qBdHI)

158 BIG. BOLD. FONTS.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:38 PM (IaZ7c)

159 154 This is a bit like removing ghe "W" from White House keyboards after the fall of Lord Obama.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at December 11, 2025 12:37 PM (4b7CV)

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Wasn't this what the Clinton WH staff when they left and W came in?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

160 This is a bit like removing ghe "W" from White House keyboards after the fall of Lord Obama.

Ummmm...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)

161 152 149 "Two years ago, Rubio's predecessor, Antony Blinken, switched to Calibri, a softer, simpler-shaped, and wider font than Times New Roman, in part to assist individuals with certain visual disabilities such as low vision and dyslexia."

Posted by: Gref at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (5rh/l)

Seriously ? I find Calibri harder to read

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)

162 Just curious about all the sue and settle actions taken against businesses for not using the Calibri font on their business cards, price tags, signage, etc

It's prevalent enough somewhere, the professional licensing assoc my daughter has to use requires a written statement that you are aware of the liability of not using the font.

Posted by: 2nd Amendment Mother at December 11, 2025 12:38 PM (3aOHH)

163 143

Trump isn't wearing anything off the rack.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 12:36 PM (hS7lz)

He would probably hate my clothing choices, Carrharts and Wranglers. But his quirks I overlook. Hell he could walk a pigeon on a leash for all I care.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:38 PM (pDt9x)

164 Most of Trump's cabinet thinks Marco is the funniest member.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 12:39 PM (NpAcC)

165 So, Fraktur is out?

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 12:39 PM (f4tQo)

166 130 is this going to piss off the gays?
Posted by: DanMan

Add it to the growing list of things that do that.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 12:39 PM (svLOV)

167 I set this laptop to Arial. It's easy to look at.

YMMV

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:39 PM (ZxPkt)

168 I am partial to segoe ui.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:39 PM (fexSQ)

169 Now I'm curious about what font the HQ uses.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (ph+d0)

Sandscript 2.0

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (5xuJ/)

Pixy Moron
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Garrett Extra Thick

Posted by: Bahaus Bottom at December 11, 2025 12:39 PM (uv8gn)

170 Calibri? It's European!

Posted by: Seinfeld Reference at December 11, 2025 12:40 PM (Q+gd/)

171 phewww.... that was close.

not THIS time barrel....

:p

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 11, 2025 12:40 PM (v6XNT)

172 Calibri was the forced default choice in Micro$oft products as of 10 or so years ago. Arial was the choice before that. And Times New Roman before that. My problem was that I formatted things for the font I was using, and M$ changing all the time meant my formatting would get screwed up. So I started forcing what font I used on every document.

I generally use Arial in a document. It looks less cluttered in a long read. I use TNR for titles and things if I want to make it stand out. I also use it for email addresses to avoid confusion between '1', 'l', and 'I'. (Some sans serif fonts do not put a little pfft on the 1.)

I've wondered if Calibri was made default in M$ Office because some coder hated his English teacher for catching him cheating to get to the requirement of "a 1 1/2 page essay."

Posted by: GWB at December 11, 2025 12:40 PM (/4DB3)

173 Whoever took the task to remind me to do payroll, it’s finished. 😀

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 12:40 PM (pZEOD)

174 Wasn't this what the Clinton WH staff when they left and W came in?

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Yes, after they got done stealing the furniture and dishes.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 12:40 PM (qBdHI)

175 151 Before Calibri Era = BCE!

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

176 169 Now I'm curious about what font the HQ uses.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (ph+d0)

Sandscript 2.0

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (5xuJ/)

Pixy Moron
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Garrett Extra Thick

Posted by: Bahaus Bottom at December 11, 2025 12:39 PM (uv8gn)

That's what ACE uses...

Posted by: Bob Marlett at December 11, 2025 12:40 PM (wtvvX)

177 175 151 Before Calibri Era = BCE!
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

Uh-Oh.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:40 PM (pDt9x)

178 The labor lawyer I worked with insisted on calibri.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 12:41 PM (pZEOD)

179 Vance & Rubio do wear nondescript stuff; it's cute that Trump is giving them and an an unnamed size 7 pol some high end shoes.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 11, 2025 12:41 PM (ZpHph)

180 People who can't write in cursive prefer Calibri.

They are also gay and retarded.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 12:41 PM (HXT0k)

181 Yeah, it was the Clinton staff.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 11, 2025 12:41 PM (3+0K7)

182 159 Yeah....you are correct. My temporal dyslexia kicked in. Thank you for the correction!

Posted by: ErikInTexas at December 11, 2025 12:41 PM (4b7CV)

183 To save money on ink, (IIRC) the cheap bookkeeper in Paul Bunyan didn't dot his i's or cross his t's. I'd be in favor of Rubio doing g that as well

Posted by: 496 at December 11, 2025 12:41 PM (ZBXTd)

184 Anyone remember the Aof♤HQ "blackout blog" site? It was a bit forgiving with the use of HTML.

For a few days, here and there it was pretty amusing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 12:41 PM (NwnyJ)

185 I just checked. The font here is Smegma 12pt

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:42 PM (fexSQ)

186 Wasn't this what the Clinton WH staff when they left and W came in?

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Yes, after they got done stealing the furniture and dishes.
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And the silverware.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 12:42 PM (TN0g+)

187 When you type a comment, it looks more like Calibri. When it is posted it converts to more like Times New Roman.

Ace is Marco Rubio!!

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 11, 2025 12:42 PM (wGerL)

188 >>Yeah, it was the Clinton staff.

His Staff was reportedly Crooked.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:42 PM (IaZ7c)

189 185 I just checked. The font here is Smegma 12pt

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:42 PM

Go wash.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 12:42 PM (IifOV)

190 Back in the old days when computers would use DOS to boot up I changed the autoexec of one guys computer.

When he started up the computer an animated X rated GIF would play on his screen for about 4 seconds before I had the autoexec erase itself and replace it with the normal autoexec.

It was a one time prank but the look on his face was priceless :-)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 11, 2025 12:42 PM (qoLdL)

191 Adding; Libre Office has the crappiest selection of fonts in existance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:42 PM (0XZup)

192 I am partial to segoe ui.
Posted by: ...

I heard recently that Yougonow is popular in certain ethnic neighborhoods.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 12:42 PM (uv8gn)

193 He is now “ Mario” Rubio!

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:43 PM (pDt9x)

194 AFAIK Times New Roman is named for a British newspaper that no longer exists, not the NYT.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 11, 2025 12:17 PM (2ocoG)

And comes from the days when you had to place all the letters by hand to print your news.

Posted by: GWB at December 11, 2025 12:43 PM (/4DB3)

195 AG
@AGHamilton29
MTG promoting Code Pink and attacking Republicans.

Candace trying to destroy TPUSA.

Tucker suggesting we should abandon all our current allies and instead prioritize siding with Islamist slave states and anti-American dictators.

All coordinating together and promoting each other.

At some point you have to realize these people aren’t on your side. They snuck into the tent are trying to tear it down from the inside. Only question is if you let them.

Dana Loesch
@DLoesch
And here is @mtgreenee pictured hanging out with an org that mocks our troops at military parades with fake caskets. Unbelievable.

https://tinyurl.com/3e3cv82y

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 12:43 PM (NpAcC)

196 >>Anyone remember the Aof♤HQ "blackout blog" site? It was a bit forgiving with the use of HTML.

We used to have all sorts of html at our fingertips...and then, it ended.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:43 PM (IaZ7c)

197
I want a Calibri salad with a side of Avocado toast, please.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 11, 2025 12:43 PM (IifOV)

198 Awesome. Can we work on bringing back Helvetica now? Arial is just the homosexual version of Helvetica.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (DDdOV)

199 Calibri is (or was) a brand of butane cigarette lighter

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (ZxPkt)

200 Is MTG simply an out grifter now??

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (pDt9x)

201 As JD Vance recounted the other day, Trump bought them all 4 pairs of new shoes. Classy, luxurious shoes fitting of their status.

Seriously, JD said he and Rubio were in the Oval discussing something, and Trump got distracted by their shoes. You guys have shitty shoes, he said, then went out and got a shoe catalogue right then and there and bought them all some decent shoes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (w6EFb)

HAHAHA! Classic Trump, I love it!

Posted by: pookysgirl, giggling hysterically at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (Wt5PA)

202 Yeah they are trying to call it a "MAGA civil war" , Idk I never followed any of those people and don't consider any of them MAGA.

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (YwEeS)

203 You folks sure do know a helluva lot about Fonts.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (D+mpw)

204 My handle is impervious to your silly font choices.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (fexSQ)

205 All this talk of switching fonts is triggering me.

Posted by: Dan Rather at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (EZaRi)

206 Not ace, here, but thinking it's Georgia,Centuury Gothic,tachoma;veranda.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:31 PM (0XZup)

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I finally found a reason to hit the "inspect" button:

font-family: Georgia, Century Gothic, tahoma, verdana.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (NYInA)

207 200 Is MTG simply an out grifter now??

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (pDt9x)

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Now?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

208 If one of you want to get published is some fag-rag academic journal, you now have a window:

"Why Times New Roman is White Supremacy."

"The Anti-Christian Undertones of Times New Roman" is already in the works by David French.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (HXT0k)

209 Somebody had to have placed a giant pod next to MTG while she was sleeping. She is a completely different person.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (qBdHI)

210 >> Is MTG simply an out grifter now??

Now? She was always a clown.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (IaZ7c)

211 209 Somebody had to have placed a giant pod next to MTG while she was sleeping. She is a completely different person.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (qBdHI)

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She's genuinely not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

212 The Biden junta was just one long petty and spiteful assault on the whole country about everything.

I find the petty and spiteful actions of this administration to be amusing. Those directed at the demoncrats and the Biden junta specifically.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 12:46 PM (2J/Lj)

213
My kids look at cursive writing like's its a foreign hieroglyph.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 12:46 PM (IifOV)

214 Yes, this is stupid. But why is Rubio being pointed out as the petty idiot for CHANGING THE FONT BACK? Why isn't his idiot predecessor being hammered for changing things in the first place?

In the 90s in San Jose, CA, they went through a similar "ungendering" exercise. They decided "manhole" was too masculine. So with the flick of a pen (as Kamala liked to say) they decided the new name would be "maintenance hole." The cost of changing legal documents and the actual cast iron covers throughout the city went into the hundreds of $millions.

Because some twat somewhere was offended at "manhole."

We need to make public stocks great again.

Posted by: red speck at December 11, 2025 12:46 PM (Ve/HL)

215 Vance telling the story of the "shitty shoes" was hilarious.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 12:46 PM (qBdHI)

216 207 200 Is MTG simply an out grifter now??

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (pDt9x)

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Now?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

I was engaging in encapsulation, I need to encapsulate these matters, being only a midwit.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:46 PM (pDt9x)

217 I like Times New Roman...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 11, 2025 12:46 PM (bss/y)

218 You know who else had a problem with Romans

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:47 PM (fexSQ)

219 >We used to have all sorts of html at our fingertips...and then, it ended.

Posted by: garrett
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it was the GIFs, gummed up the works

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:47 PM (ZxPkt)

220
MTG was always an attention seeking grifter. She must see a MAGA collapse so she's looking for the next gravy train.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 12:47 PM (IifOV)

221 Do you like movies about Times New Roman Gladiators?

Posted by: Capt Oveur at December 11, 2025 12:48 PM (Q+gd/)

222 112 >>Serif Nazis Must Die

Charlie Don't Serif

Posted by: garrett
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Absolutely a fantastic movie.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 11, 2025 12:48 PM (VkY89)

223 Everything should. be rendered in a Nerd Font preferably Meslo or Jet Brains.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 12:48 PM (XV/Pl)

224 Courier, bitches.

Mono or GTFO.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (Vq1pX)

I use Courier to do numbers (like phone numbers) sometimes. Or emails - prevents kerning issues (like where 'rn' looks like 'm') and the other issues I mentioned for using TNR.

Posted by: GWB at December 11, 2025 12:48 PM (11D+5)

225 Upper case I's should be crossed, they should not appear as l's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:48 PM (0XZup)

226 The New Rome Times was the Byzantine Empire’s paper of record.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

227 216 I was engaging in encapsulation, I need to encapsulate these matters, being only a midwit.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:46 PM (pDt9x)

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Within 2 years of her winning her first House seat, having done nothing other than being loud at committee hearings, she seriously thought she could be Trump's VP for his second term. And then, even though she won her two races below the partisan makeup of her own district (she ran behind a generic Republican, essentially) she wanted to jump into the Senate race and be Trump's preferred candidate, simply because she was loud at committee hearings.

And when Trump didn't give her either of those things, she went all in on leftist meme du jour.

Yes, she's always been a grifter.

Owning a construction company and needing to minimize costs really affected her stance on illegal immigration as soon as immigration raids actually started, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

228 Two years ago, Rubio's predecessor, Antony Blinken, switched to Calibri, a softer, simpler-shaped, and wider font than Times New Roman, in part to assist individuals with certain visual disabilities such as low vision and dyslexia.
__________________________

This is ABSOLUTE nonsense. I seriously doubt the font makes any difference with the disabled. Secondly, the head of the State Department requires uniformity, and he's choses a specific font to support that professionalism. End of story.

The NYT's is running out of things to bitch about.

Posted by: Orson at December 11, 2025 12:49 PM (dIske)

229 My kids look at cursive writing like's its a foreign hieroglyph.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 12:46 PM (IifOV)

One of my jobs in the lan survey department as a CAD tech is to read old survey documents, and much of it before 1910 was handwritten in cursive. Every surveyor had slightly different styles, and some are really hard to decipher, but once you see the pattern, such as how they wrote the letter F, etc. it becomes more clear. And some guys had much better handwriting than others. We've had interns who could not read it at all.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 11, 2025 12:49 PM (PSEDc)

230 It'll be fun watching the Left find their Strange New Respect for Marginally Talented Grifter

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:49 PM (fexSQ)

231 Did they try John Cena font?

Posted by: Lex at December 11, 2025 12:49 PM (l5xX+)

232 Via GP:

During the war on terror in the 2000s, Code Pink staged a weekly protest outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where the group called wounded soldiers “war criminals.”

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 12:49 PM (TN0g+)

233 220
MTG was always an attention seeking grifter. She must see a MAGA collapse so she's looking for the next gravy train.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 12:47 PM (IifOV)

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She sees no future for herself in the Republican Party.

Her path up in the House was tied to McCarthy, who's now gone. Her path up in GA politics was torpedoed because Trump's people showed her polls that said she'd lose the primary and Trump refused to help her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

234 Laura Loomer is super big upset at Kash for ... meeting with Arabs?

She's all drama-queening like it was her personal character vouch that secured his confirmation or some silly shit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 12:50 PM (HXT0k)

235 >>>Mario Rubio

MARCO Rubio!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 12:50 PM (RuTUS)

236 Now? She was always a clown.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:45 PM (IaZ7c
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I always wanted to like her. She spoke some good stuff and fought some fights where I was glad at least someone was fighting for us. But I was never sold on her - she was never a great ally to have on our side.

Hageman is similar. She's not bright, and probably crooked like the rest. But she fights the fights I want her too, so I'm ok with her for now.

Posted by: 496 at December 11, 2025 12:50 PM (kTtsV)

237 231 Did they try John Cena font?

Posted by: Lex at December 11, 2025 12:49 PM (l5xX+)

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I tried looking, but I couldn't find it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

238 219 >We used to have all sorts of html at our fingertips...and then, it ended.

Posted by: garrett
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it was the GIFs, gummed up the works

--

Is that G pronounced like "gift" or like "giraffe"?
(New flame war incoming.)

Posted by: red speck at December 11, 2025 12:50 PM (Ve/HL)

239 Gotta admit, I prefer Calibri. YMMV

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at December 11, 2025 12:50 PM (luW68)

240 My cursive is kaput.

I have not written in long form in so long I think I have forgotten how to write cursive.
The only thing I do in cursive is my signature and THAT has changed demonstrably over the years.

Even had an argument with my companies clearing bank when they would not honor a corporate action we sent in because my signature did not match what was on file. I eventually took a blank sheet of paper and signed my name a bunch of times and sent it to them.
None of the signatures were a match LOL

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 11, 2025 12:51 PM (qoLdL)

241 236 I always wanted to like her. She spoke some good stuff and fought some fights where I was glad at least someone was fighting for us. But I was never sold on her - she was never a great ally to have on our side.

Hageman is similar. She's not bright, and probably crooked like the rest. But she fights the fights I want her too, so I'm ok with her for now.

Posted by: 496 at December 11, 2025 12:50 PM (kTtsV)

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Remember, this type of fighting is "saying easily remembered things in the correct order."

Distrust all rhetoric, especially from politicians.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

242 218 You know who else had a problem with Romans
Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:47 PM (fex

The Popular Front of Judea, that's who. SPLITTERS!

Posted by: People's Front of Judea at December 11, 2025 12:51 PM (EZaRi)

243 You folks sure do know a helluva lot about Fonts.

It all started with Chicago 12pt. Blissfully unaware of fonts until then.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 12:51 PM (f4tQo)

244 My handle is impervious to your silly font choices.
Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:44 PM (fexSQ)

I don't know why this stuck me as funny but it's causing me to chuckle quite madly. Thanks dotty!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 12:52 PM (2J/Lj)

245 Why is he Mario ?

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 12:52 PM (g47mK)

246 Back in my days as a reporter we used Times New Roman. I still use it but I have a tough time working up a fuck.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at December 11, 2025 12:52 PM (8CIFn)

247 Oh, the Roman thing. Get it!

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 12:52 PM (g47mK)

248 222 112 >>Serif Nazis Must Die

Charlie Don't Serif

Posted by: garrett
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Absolutely a fantastic movie.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM
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Another good one (different movie) is:

Anyone who runs is a VC
Anyone who is standing still is a well disciplined VC

LOL

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 11, 2025 12:52 PM (VkY89)

249 237...He body slams all other fonts...from the top rope!!!

Posted by: Lex at December 11, 2025 12:52 PM (l5xX+)

250 never liked TNR

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 12:53 PM (g47mK)

251 >The NYT's is running out of things to bitch about.

Posted by: Orson at December 11, 2025 12:49 PM (dIske)

Guess which typeface the NYT uses? Hint - it's not Calibri

NYT is asshoe

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 12:53 PM (NgqoH)

252 The main problem with the Republican Party is there's maybe five total people actually on our side.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:53 PM (fexSQ)

253 It's gif as in grift

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 12:53 PM (fexSQ)

254 >>Anyone who runs is a VC
>>Anyone who is standing still is a well disciplined VC

"How do you shoot women and children?"

'You just lead them less.'

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:54 PM (IaZ7c)

255 Dingbats.

All Biden executive orders must be converted into dingbats.

Signed -
Donnie Two Scoops.

Posted by: Heh at December 11, 2025 12:55 PM (kwWDM)

256 The main problem with the Republican Party is there's maybe five total people actually on our side.
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Yep. And even some of the "good ones" show their limitations from time to time. I wish to God somebody would take Ted Cruz aside for a couple of hours and go over January 6th with him. The final admonishment after showing him hours of evidence should be "Ted, you're not stupid and you're fundamentally a credit to our side. Now either digest what we've shown you today or shut the hell up about January 6th."

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 12:55 PM (TN0g+)

257 My wife finds sans-serif fonts to be easier to read. I am the opposite. I think all the little tiny extra edges somehow help my brain skim over the words and recognize them faster.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 12:55 PM (Yp6az)

258 Go go Marco
Go! Go!

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 12:55 PM (KD2Rh)

259 Yes, she's always been a grifter.

Owning a construction company and needing to minimize costs really affected her stance on illegal immigration as soon as immigration raids actually started, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Summary: She will be the token white person in Jasmine Crockett's senate campaign rap group, Ebony and Ivory.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 12:57 PM (uv8gn)

260 I thought Rubio's first name was "Dondi."

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

261 you know who's in that match? take a guess... any guess... I'll wait....

Iran v Egypt.

playing in THE GAY GAME[u//u]
____

I imagine both Iran and Egypt will be inclined to object, but then realize it is soccer, so already gay.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 12:57 PM (Dv3i1)

262 There's a new serif in town.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 12:57 PM (XeU6L)

263 In fairness to bureaucrats, they don't really have a choice of which font to use, Ranjesh and Manmeet decide for them while they're ruining Windows. Unless they're at least as autistic and hate-filled as me, they have no chance against the change-forcing might of Microsoft.

Posted by: Funkotron at December 11, 2025 12:58 PM (dV6hr)

264 MTG always came off as muy macho, which appealed to many folks. Will she keep that persona for the other side?

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:58 PM (pDt9x)

265 it was the GIFs, gummed up the works

--

Is that G pronounced like "gift" or like "giraffe"?
(New flame war incoming.)
Posted by: red speck at December 11, 2025 12:50 PM

Jiff, like the peanut butter.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:58 PM (jc0TO)

266 By the way, since the stories about Michigan's ex-football coach are so cryptic and apparently attempting to make headlines without actually REVEALING any content, what DID the coach do? "Assault"? On WHO? Was it the person he had the inappropriate relationship with? Or the person who fired him? And WHEN? Was the fireable offense an "assault"? Or did the "assault" happen after he was fired?

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 12:58 PM (TN0g+)

267 There's a new serif in town.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Reminds me of the end of Heathers.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)

268 My wife finds sans-serif fonts to be easier to read. I am the opposite. I think all the little tiny extra edges somehow help my brain skim over the words and recognize them faster.
Posted by: bonhomme

There might be something to that. Old People like us grew up reading books mostly printed in versions of New Roman font without really noticing it. I think magazines were the key adopters of the sans serif fonts.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 12:59 PM (mlg/3)

269 My wife finds sans-serif fonts to be easier to read. I am the opposite. I think all the little tiny extra edges somehow help my brain skim over the words and recognize them faster. Posted by: bonhomme

I have heard that audio books have solved this problem.

Posted by: Zombie Louis Braille at December 11, 2025 12:59 PM (uv8gn)

270 >>MTG always came off as muy macho, which appealed to many folks.

She always looked like an undercooked rodent fetus, to me.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:59 PM (IaZ7c)

271 He said the serif is near!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 11, 2025 12:59 PM (2UnvF)

272
What is THIS font, we are seeing on AoS?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 11, 2025 12:59 PM (bv7gQ)

273 All government correspondence should be written in wing dings. A clown font for a clown operation.

The US Supreme Court uses Century fonts. They seem pleasant and readable.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 11, 2025 01:00 PM (wKJf5)

274 If it was good enough for Thomas Jefferson, it's good enough for me.

I epect crices that serif fonts are racyiss. I mean we've already heard that about periods, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 01:00 PM (XeU6L)

275 262 There's a new serif in town.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 12:57 PM (XeU6L)

This made me chuckle

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 11, 2025 01:00 PM (FMtrg)

276 What is THIS font, we are seeing on AoS?
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We may never know.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:00 PM (TN0g+)

277 I've notice that in sans-serif Al and AI look exactly the same.

New Roman is superior at least on that front*.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 11, 2025 01:00 PM (mlg/3)

278
This site appears to be displayed in Times New Roman font, at least for me.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 01:00 PM (VWtfl)

279 *expect

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 01:00 PM (XeU6L)

280 Isn't there a city in California known as Serif City USA?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at December 11, 2025 01:00 PM (8CIFn)

281
ₛₘₐₗₗ ₜₑₓₜ

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 11, 2025 01:00 PM (bv7gQ)

282 Want to annoy almost everyone, *especially* graphics and web designers?

Use Comic Sans. Hilarity will ensue.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 01:01 PM (0sNs1)

283 SERIFs VERSUS NON-SERIFs ... This may have less to do with the visual appearance observed by human eyes and more to do with the current technologies employed to convert text to speech (fonts with serifs might simply work better) ... Another factor could also be how -- without serifs -- certain letter combinations (if tightly kerned) might not be accurately read by scanners employed to do keyword searches.

Posted by: Kathy at December 11, 2025 01:01 PM (zuKcR)

284 @272

>>What is THIS font, we are seeing on AoS?

font-family: Georgia, Century Gothic, tahoma, verdana;

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 01:01 PM (XV/Pl)

285 Huh. As a designer, there are times 'Calibri' works much better than TNR in a layout. I prefer 'Palatino'. Some layouts need serifed fonts; a lot of 'em … don't. It has nothing to do with 'Wash the GAYNESS out!' (unlike the 'BLM' font [ https://www.fontbolt.com/font/black-lives-matter-font/]) 'Cornerstone', which is all about 'Da Revolution!' or some such shit …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 11, 2025 01:01 PM (ayRl+)

286 Isn't there a city in California known as Serif City USA?
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at December 11, 2025 01:00

Where it's two to one.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 01:02 PM (0sNs1)

287
This made me chuckle
Posted by: Emmie
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And you have made my day, at least something is going right.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 01:02 PM (XeU6L)

288 We used to have all sorts of html at our fingertips...and then, it ended.
Posted by: garrett

I'm okay with agentsmurfsmurf and rainmandodo not having the ability to paste gay sex images into every thread.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 01:03 PM (nhCoE)

289 I read that allegedly the U of M coach had an argument with his wife and threatened to kill himself. He left , went to an assistants house and put a knife to his own throat. Something flipped his lid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 01:03 PM (D+mpw)

290 We used to have all sorts of html at our fingertips...and then, it ended.
Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:43 PM

Big Penguin doesn't want us to have nice things.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 01:04 PM (0sNs1)

291 Anybody watching the air traffic right now?

Posted by: Rex B at December 11, 2025 01:04 PM (r6f6k)

292 >>I'm okay with agentsmurfsmurf and rainmandodo not having the ability to paste gay sex images into every thread.

At what cost, Sir?

At. what. cost?

Posted by: garrett misses Superscript at December 11, 2025 01:04 PM (IaZ7c)

293 Microsoft changed to default to Calibri from Times New Roman 10+ years ago, didn't they? I always thought Calibri looked better. Not as sharp and bulky and distracting as TNR. Sure, salt the Biden regime. But I don't know that this was intended fake and gay as much as just giving in to Microsoft default settings...

Posted by: bearski at December 11, 2025 01:04 PM (Bhsk7)

294 266 By the way, since the stories about Michigan's ex-football coach are so cryptic and apparently attempting to make headlines without actually REVEALING any content, what DID the coach do? "Assault"? On WHO? Was it the person he had the inappropriate relationship with? Or the person who fired him? And WHEN? Was the fireable offense an "assault"? Or did the "assault" happen after he was fired?
__

Reading between the lines, it appears he (married with 3 young kids) had a lengthy affair with his executive assistant, he got her pregnant, he told her to get an abortion, she told him to fuck off now pay up, he assaulted her, and then he said he was going to kill himself. Having the affair cost him his job, assaulting her landed him in the pokey.

Posted by: ClOwNwOrLd MiChIgAn at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (qUkBO)

295 I read that allegedly the U of M coach had an argument with his wife and threatened to kill himself. He left , went to an assistants house and put a knife to his own throat. Something flipped his lid. Posted by: Smell the Glove

Ohio State University.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (uv8gn)

296 Anybody watching the air traffic right now?
Posted by: Rex B at December 11, 2025 01:04 PM

Many times it's what you can't see, when the flip their transponders off.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (0sNs1)

297 As long as, "Delete browser history," is legible.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (YlWIZ)

298 Who shot the serif … ? It was the DEP-u-tee …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (ayRl+)

299 MTG backed the "wrong" candidate to be speaker (McCarthy) and paid a political price. Now, she's pissed off about sidelined for it.

*shrugs*

Politics is a very dirty business sweetheart. Deal with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (NwnyJ)

300 Serif fonts are racist.

Posted by: Honest Abe at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (1Nv0l)

301 He didn’t switch to the superior font, Book Antiqua?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (rQwsY)

302 Not sure if the assault happened after the firing.

Posted by: ClOwNwOrLd MiChIgAn at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (qUkBO)

303 299 MTG backed the "wrong" candidate to be speaker (McCarthy) and paid a political price. Now, she's pissed off about sidelined for it.

*shrugs*

Politics is a very dirty business sweetheart. Deal with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (NwnyJ)

======

She was still "on the team" until Trump told her not to run for Senate in GA because she'd lose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

304 THE Ohio State University.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM

Edited for AoSHQ Style Guide compliance.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 01:06 PM (0sNs1)

305 She always looked like an undercooked rodent fetus, to me.
Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 12:59 PM (IaZ7c)

Objection! we look much better !

Posted by: undercooked rodent fetus at December 11, 2025 01:06 PM (g47mK)

306 Trebuchet MS would be a popular font here.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)

307 Nothing wrong with the old roman.

Posted by: Grumpy old bastard at December 11, 2025 01:07 PM (1Nv0l)

308 293 Microsoft changed to default to Calibri from Times New Roman 10+ years ago, didn't they? I always thought Calibri looked better. Not as sharp and bulky and distracting as TNR. Sure, salt the Biden regime. But I don't know that this was intended fake and gay as much as just giving in to Microsoft default settings...
Posted by: bearski at December 11, 2025 01:04 PM (Bhsk7)

Calibri and TNR are generic.

Book Antiqua is my fave, and expands four pages of TNR to five.

Book Antiqua all the way.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:07 PM (rQwsY)

309 Ohio State University.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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*cough*

The Ohio State University

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 01:07 PM (XeU6L)

310 I prefer the Old Roman Times. With the Gladiators! And togas.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 01:07 PM (n5tGW)

311 Many times it's what you can't see, when the flip their transponders off.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (0sNs1)

I forgot. Lots of military airborne over the US. And a ouple p8 Poseidon's flying over my area.

Posted by: Rex B at December 11, 2025 01:07 PM (r6f6k)

312 Microsoft changed to default to Calibri from Times New Roman 10+ years ago, didn't they? I always thought Calibri looked better. Not as sharp and bulky and distracting as TNR. Sure, salt the Biden regime. But I don't know that this was intended fake and gay as much as just giving in to Microsoft default settings...
Posted by: bearski

I have considered your thoughts regarding this matter. Nah bro, it was intended to fake and gay.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 01:07 PM (uv8gn)

313 Nothing wrong with the old roman.
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What did the old roman ever do for us?

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:08 PM (TN0g+)

314 Big Penguin doesn't want us to have nice things.

===

Just you.

Posted by: Penguin Benevolent Society at December 11, 2025 01:08 PM (g47mK)

315 Something flipped his lid. Posted by: Smell the Glove

Ohio State University.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions

So if Ryan Day had a decent game plan to beat Michigan last year, none of this would have happened? Ryan Day's fault, I'd say.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 01:08 PM (Dv3i1)

316 The sans serif fonts always appear to be machine-produced text to me...I mean the content.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 01:08 PM (XeU6L)

317
But Calibri makes them feel pretty.

Posted by: Auspex at December 11, 2025 01:08 PM (Y8DZL)

318 Calibri is a fake and gay Fon-TAY.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (Q+gd/)

319 295 I read that allegedly the U of M coach had an argument with his wife and threatened to kill himself. He left , went to an assistants house and put a knife to his own throat. Something flipped his lid. Posted by: Smell the Glove

Ohio State University.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM
Football is a very dirty business, sweetheart. Deal with it.

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (o2ZRX)

320 Owning a construction company and needing to minimize costs really affected her stance on illegal immigration as soon as immigration raids actually started, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows
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Had high hopes for her, she's a tough chick and started out right but that was just a matter of contrivance. Maybe it was the steroids.
Whatever.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (xgeFZ)

321 Biden needs to undergo the treatment that some of the hated Pharaohs of ancient egypt got. Chisel his name off of anything he touched, topple his statues, erase him from history without a trace.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (snZF9)

322
At some point you have to realize these people aren’t on your side. They snuck into the tent are trying to tear it down from the inside. Only question is if you let them.
==
This part of what is meant by. . .There is only one party, and we arent in it.

The uniparty has an interest in self enrichment. Your average politician shares this value. Thus the average politician has values aligned with the uniparty. When they choose sides, the side they are going to choose is not yours. You can motivate them. Either with the carrot or the stick. But note, they are subject to higher bids or greater threats. The average politician is nothing more than an opportunist.

Posted by: Rant at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (kwWDM)

323 too many fonts

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (g47mK)

324 Anybody watching the air traffic right now?

No, it's lunchtime!

Posted by: H1-b's at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (f4tQo)

325 San-serif fonts *are* gay.

First, they use a french word ("san" meaning without) and the French are very gay.

Second, they look gay. And retarded.

San serif fonts are for retarded faggots.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (1Nv0l)

326 LOL, I'm still in the process of converting all of my laboratory test data reduction software's reports from Arial to Calibri. Calibri definitely looks better on reports dominated by numbers.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (E66lT)

327 Bennie Thompson being an idiot , as usual. Threatened to jail Noeme for blaming Biden for the Afghan who shot the guardsmen.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 01:10 PM (D+mpw)

328 the G stands for Graphics

hard G

GIF as in 'gift'

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 01:10 PM (ZxPkt)

329 323 too many fonts
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (g47mK)

Right. Nobody needs this many fonts.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (ZaBg9)

330 Weidest thing is his girlfriend going to the front office and telling them of the affair. What's up with that?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (xgeFZ)

331 Chisel his name off of anything he touched, topple his statues, erase him from history without a trace.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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Blow the nose off of the Sphinx.

Posted by: The French at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (XeU6L)

332 The fact that MTG could and would pose with and say nice things about Code Pink tells you all you need to know. She was NEVER one of us--she just liked the graft.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (TN0g+)

333 Just you.
Posted by: Penguin Benevolent Society at December 11, 2025 01:08 PM

No, not true. Big Penguin is against everything that has a pleasant and clement bouquet. Everything that is good and virtuous.

IOW, they are against Truth, Justice, and The American Way.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (0sNs1)

334 266 By the way, since the stories about Michigan's ex-football coach are so cryptic and apparently attempting to make headlines without actually REVEALING any content, what DID the coach do? "Assault"? On WHO? Was it the person he had the inappropriate relationship with? Or the person who fired him? And WHEN? Was the fireable offense an "assault"? Or did the "assault" happen after he was fired?
Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 12:58 PM (TN0g+)
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Uh, it's all out there. He knocked up one of the admin assistants. After he was fired for boning the young lady leaving her impregnated because he's too stupid to keep it in his pants, he threatened to kill himself in front of his wife, then drove to the house of the girl he knocked up and threatened to kill her and them himself, while holding a knife to his own throat.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (3BwY8)

335 Cursive bitches!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (2WIwB)

336 > She always looked like an undercooked rodent fetus, to me.

MTG has a very strong caveman look.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (Yp6az)

337 Gif, discarded peanut butter name.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 01:12 PM (Tbj3s)

338 Weidest thing is his girlfriend going to the front office and telling them of the affair. What's up with that?

Posted by: Braenyard
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Hell hath no fury....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 11, 2025 01:12 PM (XeU6L)

339 327 Bennie Thompson being an idiot , as usual. Threatened to jail Noeme for blaming Biden for the Afghan who shot the guardsmen.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Jail for someone speaking truth that is inconvenient to the narrative. Sounds fascist.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 01:12 PM (Dv3i1)

340 85 Now I'm curious about what font the HQ uses.

If I'm reading the css correctly, "font-family: Georgia, Century Gothic, tahoma, verdana;", Georgia will be the first one chosen, if your system has it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 12:28 PM (jlI90)

How do you that? "Reading the css."

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 01:12 PM (RuTUS)

341 Baptismal font.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 11, 2025 01:12 PM (Kt19C)

342 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 01:09 PM (snZF9)

THIS!!!! A million times this.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 01:12 PM (2J/Lj)

343 Owning a construction company and needing to minimize costs really affected her stance on illegal immigration as soon as immigration raids actually started, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think we should have a fairly big tent, and I do believe as flawed as Rs are, they are eons better than the D’s. BUT we should really consider saying no to people who espouse Jewish space lasers. At a minimum.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

344
I'm still willing to pitch a "Midnight Mel" podcast which would even be better with Sharrone Moore as a sidekick.

Couches cootches, or something.

Saw the chick's picture. You would hit it.

Posted by: Auspex at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (Y8DZL)

345 Mr. Hammer, your online persona suggests that you are an uncommonly chivalrous and charming person. I enjoy seeing your comments.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (FMtrg)

346 Anybody watching the air traffic right now?

The most military I've ever seen aloft. 510 over the US. And the important ones have their transponders turned off.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (aZ9eR)

347 336 MTG has a very strong caveman look.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (Yp6az)

Aw, man, that is so true!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (RuTUS)

348 Uh, it's all out there. He knocked up one of the admin assistants. After he was fired for boning the young lady leaving her impregnated because he's too stupid to keep it in his pants, he threatened to kill himself in front of his wife, then drove to the house of the girl he knocked up and threatened to kill her and them himself, while holding a knife to his own throat.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM (3BwY

As one does.

Posted by: Hello, fellow lunatics at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (NxjzV)

349 Come Thou Font of Every Blessing..

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (Tbj3s)

350 343 Owning a construction company and needing to minimize costs really affected her stance on illegal immigration as soon as immigration raids actually started, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think we should have a fairly big tent, and I do believe as flawed as Rs are, they are eons better than the D’s. BUT we should really consider saying no to people who espouse Jewish space lasers. At a minimum.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

=====

Heh.

I'd forgotten she'd said that.

I'm glad I don't like these people. I know I never defended her for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

351 336 > She always looked like an undercooked rodent fetus, to me.

MTG has a very strong caveman look.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 01:11 PM

Omg, yes, she looks more like a caveman than a rodent fetus and I always thought she looked kind of masculine.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (I7V7v)

352 Hell hath no fury.... like MTG scorned.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (Q+gd/)

353 Weidest thing is his girlfriend going to the front office and telling them of the affair. What's up with that?
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She decided she was going to get her money one way or the other. If the coach wouldn't/couldn't pay it, she was letting the university know that she'd be expecting THEM to pay her.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:14 PM (TN0g+)

354 352 Hell hath no fury.... like MTG scorned.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (Q+gd/)

=======

Her hell is quitting and then pouting on CNN until Netflix (or Paramount, the hostile takeover seems...shaky right now) just nukes the channel completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

355 She decided she was going to get her money one way or the other. If the coach wouldn't/couldn't pay it, she was letting the university know that she'd be expecting THEM to pay her.
Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:14 PM

Sounds like she put some THOT into it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM (0sNs1)

356 Every church I go to has a different font.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM (n5tGW)

357 and threatened to kill her and them himself, while holding a knife to his own throat."

Wait, I've seen something like that...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM (XuXeR)

358 338 Weidest thing is his girlfriend going to the front office and telling them of the affair. What's up with that?

Posted by: Braenyard
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Hell hath no fury....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at

Ohhh….you were not being truthful when you told me you would leave your wife and kids for me? Got it.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM (p4NUW)

359 >> Biden needs to undergo the treatment that some of the hated Pharaohs of ancient egypt got. Chisel his name off of anything he touched, topple his statues, erase him from history without a trace.

The Barakhenatening never happened, sadly.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM (IaZ7c)

360 Uh, it's all out there. He knocked up one of the admin assistants. After he was fired for boning the young lady leaving her impregnated because he's too stupid to keep it in his pants, he threatened to kill himself in front of his wife, then drove to the house of the girl he knocked up and threatened to kill her and them himself, while holding a knife to his own throat.

Posted by: ballistic

None of the people I had affairs with got pregnant.

Posted by: Jerry Sandusky at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM (uv8gn)

361 326 LOL, I'm still in the process of converting all of my laboratory test data reduction software's reports from Arial to Calibri. Calibri definitely looks better on reports dominated by numbers.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts
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This thread lead me to discover that MS fonts can be loaded into Libre Office. Caveat, if you really want other systems to render correctly stick with New Times Roman, Ariel, or Calibre.

In other words one has a choice of three fonts if he wants to assure that another system can read them/it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM (xgeFZ)

362 I think we should have a fairly big tent, and I do believe as flawed as Rs are, they are eons better than the D’s. BUT we should really consider saying no to people who espouse Jewish space lasers. At a minimum.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

BIG LASER has gotten to Pip.

Posted by: aluminum foil hat at December 11, 2025 01:16 PM (xmUyu)

363 How is Walz going to manage that when he has no control over entry into the United States as governor of a state?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

Arrest all CBP agents in MN.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:16 PM (rQwsY)

364 MTG has a very strong caveman look."

GEICO?

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:16 PM (XuXeR)

365 The Barakhenatening never happened, sadly.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM (IaZ7c)

I know. In some ways he getting to watch his legacy get destroyed, but as a shit stain on the pages of our history he should get the full treatment.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 01:16 PM (snZF9)

366 Don't care what the issue is; Biden Regime needs to be erased.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 11, 2025 01:16 PM (wBaIH)

367 Dude says he's been working at this place for five days and no coworkers came in for the second day in a row.

http://tiny.cc/17bw001

I've heard it's bad out there. Nobody works anymore. You'd think the ones that work would gain a massive advantage, but no. Managers just abuse the ones the show up and nothing happens to the ones that don't.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 01:16 PM (Yp6az)

368 Ummm ... The Blade uses Calibri all the time. I wouldn't use it for official documents like legal briefs or contracts, but it's an easy-to-read font that's not too formal or technical. I use it for emails and less formal letters.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

369 She decided she was going to get her money one way or the other. If the coach wouldn't/couldn't pay it, she was letting the university know that she'd be expecting THEM to pay her.
Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:14 PM (TN0g+)
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Her salary history is public record, and she got a pay bump as an admin assistant from $48k to $90k last year. Not bad work for a college student.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 01:16 PM (3BwY8)

370 363 How is Walz going to manage that when he has no control over entry into the United States as governor of a state?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

Arrest all CBP agents in MN.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:16 PM (rQwsY)

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"Great idea!"
-South Carolina, circa 1860

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

371 In other words one has a choice of three fonts if he wants to assure that another system can read them/it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM

No one needs more than three fonts.

Posted by: Bernado Sanders (Commie-VT) at December 11, 2025 01:17 PM (0sNs1)

372 GLOBAL HOMO MICROSOFT HAS CALIBRI THE DEFAULT FONT ON WORD AND EXCEL.

Now I know why.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 01:17 PM (xvV+O)

373 Anybody watching the air traffic right now?

The most military I've ever seen aloft. 510 over the US. And the important ones have their transponders turned off.
Posted by: t-bird

Long term Maduro vacation escort?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (uv8gn)

374 MTG has a very strong caveman look.
___

She is literally a bone head.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (qUkBO)

375 >> the G stands for Graphics

>hard G

Let's leave Ace's fantasies out of this.

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (IaZ7c)

376 Awaiting Notsothoreau's commentary.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (xgeFZ)

377 Can you imagine the funeral(s) if Pelosi and Biden shuffle off on the same day?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (gm9Sb)

378 I'm still waiting to find out who this Mario Rubio guy is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

379 303 299 MTG backed the "wrong" candidate to be speaker (McCarthy) and paid a political price. Now, she's pissed off about sidelined for it.

*shrugs*

Politics is a very dirty business sweetheart. Deal with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 01:05 PM (NwnyJ)
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I think dirt was collected in MTG. Back in August or September she made a speech in Georgia about something unimportant. BUT, she started off the appearance by making some odd statement like, "If they say I committed suicide, I DIDN't commit suicide." And, then just moved forward with the press conference without clarification.

Then, from that point forward she did a full 180 degree turn and became even more unhinged than previously. I think someone has her in a vice, and rather than covertly remain and work against the policy she decided to remove herself from the situation while simultaneously "showing" support for all those things she previously fought against.

Posted by: Orson at December 11, 2025 01:19 PM (dIske)

380 No one needs more than three fonts.
Posted by: Bernado Sanders

At some point, you've made enough fonts.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

381 Calibri is for fags!

Posted by: Could be true at December 11, 2025 01:19 PM (TbWk/)

382 OUT: Big Ten
IN: Big Settlements

Posted by: Bob Marlett at December 11, 2025 01:19 PM (wtvvX)

383 Uh, it's all out there. He knocked up one of the admin assistants. After he was fired for boning the young lady leaving her impregnated because he's too stupid to keep it in his pants, he threatened to kill himself in front of his wife, then drove to the house of the girl he knocked up and threatened to kill her and them himself, while holding a knife to his own throat.

Having seen a photo of the admin assistant, I can't entirely blame him for the knocking up part. The suicide and murder threats not so much though.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 11, 2025 01:19 PM (2ocoG)

384 "Great idea!"
-South Carolina, circa 1860
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

Seriously, I am surprised no state has tried that yet, and if they did…well, for instance, if Walz did it, I could at least say he was being consistent.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:20 PM (rQwsY)

385 Mr. Hammer, your online persona suggests that you are an uncommonly chivalrous and charming person. I enjoy seeing your comments.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 11, 2025 01:13 PM (FMtrg)

Having had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Hammer in person, I can attest to the truth of that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 01:20 PM (npFr7)

386 I'm still waiting to find out who this Mario Rubio guy is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

fourth cousin of Mario and Luigi.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 01:20 PM (uv8gn)

387 >>I'm still waiting to find out who this Mario Rubio guy is.

Luigi Rubio's Brother

Posted by: garrett at December 11, 2025 01:20 PM (IaZ7c)

388 378 I'm still waiting to find out who this Mario Rubio guy is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

Luigi’s brother.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:21 PM (rQwsY)

389 I'm still waiting to find out who this Mario Rubio guy is.
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He was one of the kids in "Saved By The Bell".

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 01:21 PM (TN0g+)

390 Not bad work for a college student"

You misspelled "on your knees" or "K. Harris style"

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 01:21 PM (XuXeR)

391 378 Mario Rubio is a connected guy, holding down a no show job at DeLucca Plumbing in south Philly.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:21 PM (gm9Sb)

392 384 "Great idea!"
-South Carolina, circa 1860
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

Seriously, I am surprised no state has tried that yet, and if they did…well, for instance, if Walz did it, I could at least say he was being consistent.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:20 PM (rQwsY)

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The fact that it hasn't tells me that the left does not think it's winning right now, and that it would lose in a standoff that pitted individual states against the federal government.

Walz ordering the arrest of BP agents or ICE agents would be an act of outright insurrection, and Trump would have full authority to arrest most of the MN state government, using the military.

That's well beyond, "We're not telling the feds we have illegal aliens in our jails."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

393 I love their bullshit reason about disabilities. There was a different reason.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 01:22 PM (fexSQ)

394 > Come Thou Font of Every Blessing

It's a lovely hymn, one of my favorites.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 11, 2025 01:22 PM (Yp6az)

395 Can you imagine the funeral(s) if Pelosi and Biden shuffle off on the same day?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (gm9Sb)
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John McCain hardest hit.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 01:22 PM (ESVrU)

396 Microsoft changed to default to Calibri from Times New Roman 10+ years ago, didn't they?

They did, and they recently change the default from Calibri to Aptos.

Making Calibri old news and Biden's state department behind the times as ususal

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 11, 2025 01:23 PM (a+4eV)

397 Arial is the correct font for technical papers.

And it is most definitely NOT gay.

Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 01:23 PM (xvV+O)

398 373 Anybody watching the air traffic right now?

The most military I've ever seen aloft. 510 over the US. And the important ones have their transponders turned off.
Posted by: t-bird

Long term Maduro vacation escort?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions
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Read that Trump gave him passage to leave, 'till the weekend'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:23 PM (xgeFZ)

399 Can you imagine the funeral(s) if Pelosi and Biden shuffle off on the same day?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (gm9Sb)

1) don't tease me.
2) Oliver Winery would run out of Apple Pie Wine during my celebration.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 01:23 PM (2J/Lj)

400 My understanding is that serif fonts are easier to read on the printed page, while sans-serif fonts are easier to read on screens.

(But with high-resolution screens, I don't know if the latter is necessarily true anymore.)

Posted by: JTP at December 11, 2025 01:24 PM (8daDi)

401 The fact that it hasn't tells me that the left does not think it's winning right now, and that it would lose in a standoff that pitted individual states against the federal government.

Walz ordering the arrest of BP agents or ICE agents would be an act of outright insurrection, and Trump would have full authority to arrest most of the MN state government, using the military.

That's well beyond, "We're not telling the feds we have illegal aliens in our jails."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:21 PM (GBKbO)
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The Left is going to wait until THEY have full control over the Executive again. At that point, they will be provoking the states into open rebellion at every turn, just so they can crush them with the federal behemoth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 01:24 PM (ESVrU)

402 Seriously, that Blinken spent a scintilla of a fraction of a nanosecond pondering over fonts is...mind-numbing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM

It's really a thing in the government. There is a good chance of an ass chewing if you use anything other than TNR or Arial in some offices.

Posted by: Bert G at December 11, 2025 01:24 PM (VARTN)

403 AOP, I have a mental list of Horde members I haven't yet met IRL and hope to. You are on that list. :-)

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 11, 2025 01:25 PM (FMtrg)

404 *emerges from pipe and eats mushroom*

Itsa me, Rubio.

Posted by: Koopa Troopa at December 11, 2025 01:25 PM (NeXA9)

405 Can you imagine the funeral(s) if Pelosi and Biden shuffle off on the same day?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (gm9Sb)

Ring...ring... yeah, uh god, satan here, you can't do this shit to me, ok? There just isn't enough barbed cocks to go around right now, and hell's basement only has so much room until the crews finish. Can't do 2 at once, I need at least a week in between. No, I'm not saying not to reap their silly asses at the same time, just hold them on ice until I'm ready, ok? Thanks bro.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 01:25 PM (snZF9)

406 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 01:25 PM (77rzZ)

407 nood tampon tim

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 01:25 PM (ESVrU)

408 Joe's Funeral. The caisson is being led and a black horse, with ceremonial Crocs placed backwards in the stirrups...

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (gm9Sb)

409 I never knew that people were so prissy over fonts.
It's like a bunch of girls at the boutique trying on dresses.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (xgeFZ)

410 396 Microsoft changed to default to Calibri from Times New Roman 10+ years ago, didn't they?

They did, and they recently change the default from Calibri to Aptos.
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Aptos font doesn't exist in our version of Adobe so everything gets fouled up when trying to save a document to .pdf. Plus it looks just like the usual font so you have no idea before you start unless you look for it. Yes I know about changing default font settings in Microsoft apps. Now I do anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (Dv3i1)

411 The fact that it hasn't tells me that the left does not think it's winning right now, and that it would lose in a standoff that pitted individual states against the federal government.

Walz ordering the arrest of BP agents or ICE agents would be an act of outright insurrection, and Trump would have full authority to arrest most of the MN state government, using the military.

That's well beyond, "We're not telling the feds we have illegal aliens in our jails."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

While I see what you are saying (really!), in my mind, there is no difference between using state cops to arrest federal cops for enforcing federal law, and the refusal to cooperate with the Feds by saying “we’re not telling the Feds about illegals in our jails”. One is simply more brusque than the other.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (rQwsY)

412 I can understand why some individuals prefer to read Calibri, even if it's gay.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (w6EFb)

413 411 While I see what you are saying (really!), in my mind, there is no difference between using state cops to arrest federal cops for enforcing federal law, and the refusal to cooperate with the Feds by saying “we’re not telling the Feds about illegals in our jails”. One is simply more brusque than the other.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (rQwsY)

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Since states are soveriegn of themselves, they do not have obligations to the federal government like that. They don't have to always say yes.

States are not subsidiary creations of the federal government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

414 399 Can you imagine the funeral(s) if Pelosi and Biden shuffle off on the same day?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 11, 2025 01:18 PM (gm9Sb)

1) don't tease me.
2) Oliver Winery would run out of Apple Pie Wine during my celebration.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 11, 2025 01:23 PM (2J/Lj)

Yeah, if you want to be arrested.

The USA will close for a mandatory three year mourning period if that happens. If you do not participate, like the insolent Madamemayhem here, you are going to be arrested and feel the full weight of the wrath of the government.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (rQwsY)

415 412 I can understand why some individuals prefer to read Calibri, even if it's gay.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 11, 2025 01:26 PM (w6EFb)

Hahahaha. Started off so nice, there! That second part took me by surprise.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 01:29 PM (RuTUS)

416 How do you that? "Reading the css."
Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 01:12 PM

Move the cursor over a text element, right-click > inspect element. The browser should open its dev-tools window; Click "Computed" tab. Look for "font-family"

Posted by: Chuck C at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (D0HYP)

417 Since states are soveriegn of themselves, they do not have obligations to the federal government like that. They don't have to always say yes.

States are not subsidiary creations of the federal government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

Well, 37 of them are, anyway.

. But they are not allowed to interfere in functions that are agreed to be part of the purview of the federal government. If they are…well, it was nice having a united country…

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (rQwsY)

418 416 How do you that? "Reading the css."
Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 01:12 PM

Move the cursor over a text element, right-click > inspect element. The browser should open its dev-tools window; Click "Computed" tab. Look for "font-family"
Posted by: Chuck C at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (D0HYP)

Thank you!!!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 01:31 PM (RuTUS)

419 I've always preferred sans serif-type fonts. I guess I never realized I was a faggot.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at December 11, 2025 01:46 PM (ERYKL)

420 I personally like Calibri better. I've used it for years at work.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 11, 2025 01:52 PM (BCuCF)

421 I like Calibri. I prefer sans serif fonts in general. TNR never did much of anything for me.

As for sexuality, having little dinguses at the tip of every letter seems rather more significantly bottom-oriented IYKWIMAITYD than the rounded curves of a full-figured font.

Just saying . . .

Posted by: Sam at December 11, 2025 02:00 PM (7jMef)

422 Does Aptos make me gay??

Posted by: dananjcon at December 11, 2025 02:00 PM (8C1eU)

423 i've always preffered Times New Roman.

Posted by: iowaan at December 11, 2025 02:17 PM (QJuVM)

424 Calibri is the Tim Walz of fonts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 02:45 PM (ynpvh)

425 Calibri is Times New Roman with its gender-specific parts hacked off.

Posted by: Dagwood at December 11, 2025 02:47 PM (CC0N1)

426 Times New Roman is the only legitimate font for correspondence and writing.

Posted by: Mark Johns at December 11, 2025 02:47 PM (3hpCj)

427 "Times New Roman is the only legitimate font for correspondence and writing."

TNR is good, but Century Schoolbook is better: more legible, more pleasing to the eye.

Posted by: Nemo at December 11, 2025 05:17 PM (4RPgu)

428 I worked for a company that required all correspondence be in Arial. Silly or not, where I came from, if the boss says do this, we do it.

Posted by: Ken James at December 11, 2025 05:32 PM (1Xy6x)

429 Whoa, it's a Font GayT

Posted by: Uni-partier at December 11, 2025 05:49 PM (CWGlO)

430 Times New Roman is the required font for US Air Force documents. Courier New is the required font for official Navy documents. I don't know what font was used when I worked for the US Army as we still had secretaries with typewriters back then.

Posted by: The Guy at December 11, 2025 06:37 PM (mARck)

431 Baskerville Old Face - the only truly manly, yet erudite font.

Posted by: harbqll at December 11, 2025 07:41 PM (D2KR+)

The Morning Rant: Superior American Edition

The smug pomposity of Western Europe in the face of overwhelming data that show a rapidly collapsing culture and society is fascinating to behold. Birth rates among natives are far below replacement, church attendance has cratered, tax rates are onerous, crime is exploding, Churches are being burned or turned into mosques, free speech is now at the mercy of increasingly totalitarian governments, and on and on.

But they have "free" (but rationed) healthcare, and their trains are lovely and fast and mostly on time! Oh...lots of vacation too!

Apparently, being able to get around on nice trains trumps the loss of freedom, the lack of purchasing power to own an automobile (freedom's conveyance), Muslim rape gangs, life in tiny apartments with no air conditioning, minuscule appliances, sclerotic municipal services, and all the other complexities of an overweening regulatory and administrative state.

Here is a typical exchange between the Bien Pensant and a proud American. It is everything you expect!

X is currently full of Europeans trying to tell Americans how much better life in Europe is.

One of the constant refrains is "Our government makes sure we get XX days of vacation yearly."

Euros do not realize that is not the flex they think it is.

To us Americans it reeks of...
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) December 9, 2025

I have a bit of experience with living in America, and had the opportunity to live in Paris for several months, in an upscale neighborhood far from the crime and the Islamic hordes in the midst of their conquest. And I can tell you unequivocally that life in America is better.

Do you know why those hip Parisians shop every day for food on their quaint and lovely streets filled with wonderful food shops? Because their f*cking kitchens are tiny, and their toy refrigerators don't hold enough for more than a day or two of cooking! Do you know why they are...to be polite...rather odoriferous? Because they sweat all the time (remember; no A/C!), their access to clothes washing is problematic, and their bathrooms are a joke, with hand-held showers and poor water pressure.

If you want good service in a store or a restaurant, don't bother. That wonderful living wage that they pay waiters translates into disinterested and mediocre service. And in stores? Hah! Good luck. Buying a box of band-aids can take 15 minutes. And their vaunted socialized and "free" medical care is strictly rationed, and only the well-off can get speedy and high-quality care. Or...you know...just fly to America, which many people around the world do, in spite of our health-care issues.

Our poor people own cars, and have more freedom than anyone else in the world. But the privilege of paying obscene marginal tax rates so that government can subsidize public transportation is better? I don't think so.

Western Europe should pay more attention to its own existential problems, and simply appreciate that America has paid for their defense since World War II. it is disingenuous in the extreme to claim that we do not subsidize Europe...the many trillions of dollars we have spent on NATO, either directly or indirectly, is distinct from any economic benefit that a rebuilt Europe has afforded our economy.

Are many parts of Western Europe beautiful? Absolutely! Many of their cities are marvels of architecture and culture, and its physical beauty is often stunning. But it is increasingly becoming a Potemkin Village, as their governments carefully minimize or hide (Rotherham or Malmo anyone?) their massive problems.

But the biggest problem by far is Europe's curious disinterest in their own freedom. Speech is carefully controlled by government and compliant corporations, and with that control comes a diminution of the very concept of freedom and liberty. Until that changes, Western Europe will continue down the path toward totalitarianism, either externally applied by Islam, or internally applied by...themselves!

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

-- Samuel Adams

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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1 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (zjgNU)

2 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (cYBz/)

3 The Morning Rant: Superior American Edition

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So, all the other morning rants are, what?, Armenian?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

4 I even had to correct my horrible typing.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (zjgNU)

5 first?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (v6XNT)

6 way off, but at least i'm not chasing otters.

so it's time for content.

morning horde

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 11, 2025 11:01 AM (v6XNT)

7 Europeans are poor.

Their cities are dirty

Crime is through the roof

And they are imprisoned for saying things everyone agreed with 20 years ago.

Fascism might always be coming to America...but its now in Europe

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 11:04 AM (sKqQm)

8 and while i never lived in europe, i've spent a fair amount of time there for work over the years. you're not wrong in any of the above that i have seen.

tiny apartments with tiny furnishings for tiny support

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at December 11, 2025 11:04 AM (v6XNT)

9 My absolute favorite Sam Adams quote. I would follow that guy right into a line of frickin red coats.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 11:04 AM (SNshR)

10 Apparently, being able to get around on nice trains trumps the loss of freedom...

Heh. The people of Minnesota have their rape.gsnga, but are still waiting for their trains.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 11:04 AM (2WIwB)

11 What is "the flex?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 11:05 AM (pkeXY)

12 I have long said that all of Europe is like a museum. It's all pretty and historic and in many cases spectacular. Just like the dinosaurs were. You walk through Europe and you can't shake the feeling that, like the dinosaurs, everything good about the place is in the past.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

13 Lunch time is almost over

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 11:06 AM (TjuhY)

14 C'mon CBD, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 11:06 AM (W7XSX)

15 Because their f*cking kitchens are tiny, and their toy refrigerators don't hold enough for more than a day or two of cooking!

Imagine the power you would have over the masses if the *tiniest* supply chain wobble results in mass hunger, thirst, darkness, and/or cold?

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 11:07 AM (ittVa)

16 Europe is generally socialist regardless how they want to describe it, it's still a pig with lipstick.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 11:07 AM (NwnyJ)

17 Cut News Jib with Robert Spencer was a very good listen

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 11:07 AM (TjuhY)

18 Eurotrash can live any way they wish. It's not for me to tell them how to live. But I also think they should defend themselves and their "way of life" on their own. Open borders and welfare statism leads only to social chaos, and depending on America or the EU to protect you from the inevitable invasion is just wish-casting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 11:07 AM (SNshR)

19 I've always wanted to see England, Scotland, and Ireland. Not any more, not with what they are turning into. Their totalitarian seizure of opportunity during the Sniffle Scare changed that idea for me forever.

Same with Australia and New Zealand.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:08 AM (wzUl9)

20 Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? One just ruled that the "Maryland Dad" must be released immediately..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)

21 If you've ever worked for a company that has European offices you'll understand that the Euros are all lazy-assed layabouts who are constantly thinking of and bragging about what they'll do with the month of August since none of them spend it at work.

They're as useless as tits on a boar, and loathsome assholes to boot.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:08 AM (3BwY8)

22 12 I have long said that all of Europe is like a museum. It's all pretty and historic and in many cases spectacular. Just like the dinosaurs were. You walk through Europe and you can't shake the feeling that, like the dinosaurs, everything good about the place is in the past.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11

I would live in Italy in 3 seconds. But not Milan, or Rome, or especially Naples. But Cortona? Yes. It’s a postcard. I would even hang laundry on the line.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:08 AM (Wmg4n)

23 11

What is "the flex?"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 11:05 AM (pkeXY)

Show of power or superiority.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:08 AM (pDt9x)

24 Europe, as a whole, is worse off than our poorest states.

Additionally, the "powerhouses" of Europe: Germany, France, UK, are BARELY at the GDP of Mississippi (Germany) or below it (UK, France).

That "indolence" is part of it, but most of it is governmental misrule, which birthed that "indolence" and entitlement.

The Germans that came over here to work are especially hard workers. (Auto Industry).

That's likely selection bias, but the German work ethic clearly still exists.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (zjgNU)

25
Get out of NATO, now

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (xG4kz)

26 I used to have discussions with out west German representative about Europe and the USA. He always brought up the black issue and how that was terrible. My counter point was wait until your muslim population approaches 13% and see what happens.

They are seeing it now most gooder and harder and I laugh.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (xvV+O)

27 C'mon CBD, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 11:06 AM (W7XSX)

I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)

28 24 Europe, as a whole, is worse off than our poorest states.

Additionally, the "powerhouses" of Europe: Germany, France, UK, are BARELY at the GDP of Mississippi (Germany) or below it (UK, France).

That "indolence" is part of it, but most of it is governmental misrule, which birthed that "indolence" and entitlement.

The Germans that came over here to work are especially hard workers. (Auto Industry).

That's likely selection bias, but the German work ethic clearly still exists.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (zjgNU)

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But Europe imported Syria which meant positive GDP which makes them not only economic powerhouses, no matter anything else, but more moral than you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

29 Europe is going to fall.
But it will be illustrative that you can't have birth control and cradle to grave Socialism and still have European culture.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (xcxpd)

30 Most of the smart and enterprising Europeans left the continent in the 18th-19th centuries, going to either the New World or their countries' colonies abroad.

The World Wars killed off most of those who stayed.

Europe's been on a downward trajectory for a long time.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

31 27 I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)

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I would move back to Rome in a heartbeat.

But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

32 Good morning all.
My son lived in Brussels for 3 yrs. I was astounded the first time I saw their apartment. It was spacious but the kitchen was a joke. Tiny fridge, 2 burner stove,washing machine but no dryer. It is a completely different lifestyle.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (t/2Uw)

33 Japan MAY be facing the problem and accepting that there may be fewer Japanese people around but they will, at least, BE Japanese.

It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

34 Never been to Europe, doubt I ever shall?? What am I missing?

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (pDt9x)

35 "But you Americans have guns! How gauche! You're supposed to let the state protect you!"

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (svLOV)

36
What is "the flex?"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Something to brag about or to lord it over someone else.

Not unlike self-absorbed gym rats admiring themselves while flexing in front of a full length mirror.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 11:12 AM (xG4kz)

37 33 Japan MAY be facing the problem and accepting that there may be fewer Japanese people around but they will, at least, BE Japanese.

It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

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50% of Japan's population in 100 years, but all Japanese, will still be Japan.

110% of Japan's population in 100 years, but majority African, will not be Japan.

Also, lower birthrates tend to fix themselves over time. Space becomes less of an issue at a certain point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

38 It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Heck, the Mongols couldn't even take Japan.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

39 Tread lightly, Morons. The chimppunk is in full rage mode this morning.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 11:12 AM (1zOXE)

40 There are youtube videos of Brits and other Europeans visiting America and are blown away at the size of our kitchens and appliances.

And the portion sizes in restaurants.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 11:12 AM (W7XSX)

41 I was in London for a week in the summer of 2014. Even then it was extremely dirty. I can't imagine how much trash is lying around 11 years later!

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (Dg7ng)

42 35 "But you Americans have guns! How gauche! You're supposed to let the state protect you!"
Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (svLOV)

Because they do such a fine job, I opine, dripping with sarcasm.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (pDt9x)

43 Democrats want us to be like Britain, Germany, or France. Small choices, thought control, government control of housing, food, and medical care.

They can screw the hell off.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (SNshR)

44 Thx CBD.
Pax Americana has allowed Europe to be self indulgent aholes since the fifties. Every stupid leftist idea upto and including the EU. Now uncontrolled invasion by muzzies. There's a response to the above tweet wiere a guy in Europe lays out everything that is wonderful and better in Europe. Every bit is caused by us being there. If we left NATO the French and Germans would be at each other's throats within six months.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (D+mpw)

45 IIRC, only Luxembourg is above the capita in earnings of our lowest state. That is nothing to be proud of.

On my first trip to Europe I was shocked at how appliances was so small and cost 2X+ our prices. My eyes were opened to the lies we were f living better that Americans.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (xvV+O)

46 38 It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Heck, the Mongols couldn't even take Japan.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

Bad luck for the Mongols helped Japan there, but yes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (xcxpd)

47 Europe suffers from the same malaise that our country does, to a lesser extent.

They have been coasting on the built up physical and cultural capital from their previous, great civilization.

Both physical infrastructure built by great empires and cultural infrastructure, built by Christianity are what created Europe.

But they've been undermining both, either through neglect (physical) or outright hostility (Chrisitanity).
Their leaders are men without chests who think that the Christian ethic they grew up with is the natural state of man. That's why they think importing third world, hostile, musselmen will work.

It is a disaster and it will not get righted with an actual war, for which they have purposely made their military and people wholly unprepared.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (zjgNU)

48 Let Europe be what they are, just don't bring it here.
I could care less what they do, say, or think.
However we have a good many Americans who I wish
would deport themselves to Europe where they would
be happy.

Posted by: Case at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (G1OIb)

49 I have long said that all of Europe is like a museum. It's all pretty and historic and in many cases spectacular. Just like the dinosaurs were. You walk through Europe and you can't shake the feeling that, like the dinosaurs, everything good about the place is in the past.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11

I would live in Italy in 3 seconds. But not Milan, or Rome, or especially Naples. But Cortona? Yes. It’s a postcard. I would even hang laundry on the line.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:08 AM (Wmg4n)
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So you saw that Tuscany movie with Diane Lane? LOL.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

50 The future belongs to who shows up.
This is not good news for Europe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (xcxpd)

51 It is a disaster and it will not get righted with* an actual war, for which they have purposely made their military and people wholly unprepared.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (zjgNU)

*without

An edit button! My kingdom for an edit button!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (zjgNU)

52 If Edward Creasy could make his list of the most significant battles in history I wonder if he’d still include the Battle of Tours. After all, it looks as though the Arab Muslims may well succeed in conquest… it was a delaying action… 1400 year delaying action….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 11:15 AM (xT8gx)

53 50 The future belongs to who shows up.
This is not good news for Europe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (xcxpd)

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If Germany hadn't forced Europe to import Syria 10 years ago, Europe would have had to find another solution to their social welfare net crisis.

Something like: having babies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

54 I went to Germany on a business trip over 25 years ago. I thought it was nice.

But I was shocked at all the graffiti along the train routes. I thought I was in NYC.

My preconceived notion that Germany was orderly was shattered.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 11:15 AM (W7XSX)

55 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

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56 Circa 1990. A college friend brought his very Italian girlfriend over. It was our first house. Regular 3b,2b,2 car garage in a decent neighborhood in SW Houston.
Lovely girl that was very fresh on the scene seeing America for the first time.
She saw our double door refrigerator in the kitchen, asked if she could open it and then commenced to crying.
She told us the local store they went to everyday didn't have that much refrigeration and absolutely no ice.

Posted by: DanMan at December 11, 2025 11:15 AM (8uzBS)

57 51 An edit button! My kingdom for an edit button!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (zjgNU)

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There's a solution to that!

Cozy up to ace so much that he gives you the keys!

Just hope he checks his email.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

58
But...Parisian women are gorgeous!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December

My mama was stunning to her last day. When I see pictures of her in her 20s? Wow. My grandmother, being French, used to tell my mom she was pretty but not as pretty as her- how awful is that? Now my grandmother would stop you in your tracks in her youth, she was gorgeous, too. She was a ringer for Zsa Zsa Gabor. My sister looks just like them.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:15 AM (Wmg4n)

59 An edit button! My kingdom for an edit button!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (zjgNU)

I have sung that song as well....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:16 AM (xcxpd)

60 Heartbreaking European letter to Santa.

https://is.gd/cI1vUD

I guess they're European hillbillies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

61 C'mon CBD, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 11:06 AM (W7XSX)

I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)
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I was disappointed in French ladies. I expected Brigitte Bardot and Lea Seydoux. What I got was ... not that.

I was more impressed with Italian, Spanish, and German babes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

62 The Germans that came over here to work are especially hard workers. (Auto Industry).

That's likely selection bias, but the German work ethic clearly still exists.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
____________

A lot of older books talk about a Protestant work ethic. So does this hold for the southern krauts, too?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (XvL8K)

63 Also don't get me started on the lackadaisical bullshit that is the European way of eating dinner at 10pm.

For Pete's sake eat dinner at a normal time and then go to fucking bed so you can be at work in the morning. Yeesh.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (3BwY8)

64 "Federal judge orders Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody" crows CBS news...

The Dems and the left have spent millions on this trash getting him out of legal custody so he can roam free...just to watch him go right back in...which will be the case again very shortly.

These people are evil idiots - they're not going to get anything out of this but a hole in their wallet and bad PR...

Posted by: Boswell at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (NTVPI)

65 I am a history buff and love to travel. I traveled to Europe for the first time the year I graduated college with a back pack by myself. You could do that at one time. I spent 3 months mostly in Amsterdam and London and then went to Israel. Never felt scared. No cell phones. People were wonderful. I spent days wandering the streets and visiting museums. It was a different world. Authentic. Now lost.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (t/2Uw)

66 Most of the smart and enterprising Europeans left the continent in the 18th-19th centuries, going to either the New World or their countries' colonies abroad.

The World Wars killed off most of those who stayed.

Europe's been on a downward trajectory for a long time.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

Europe also did everything they could to destroy their successful colonies abroad, as well. (South Africa and Rhodesia.) Australia and New Zealand are destroying themselves.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:18 AM (zjgNU)

67 There's a couple of English guys who travel the US and make vids about how little they understand and /or in awe of about the US. Pretty funny stuff.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 11:18 AM (D+mpw)

68 But the biggest problem by far is Europe's curious disinterest in their own freedom. Speech is carefully controlled by government and compliant corporations, and with that control comes a diminution of the very concept of freedom and liberty.

Who knew that Big Brother controlling the masses required nothing more than a short form video of some female making bird hands and telling you that your thoughts are problematic?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 11:18 AM (ExV1e)

69 My husband Richard was a valued municipal employee, essential to the delivery of services to our Borough. Won awards and all! Please don't disparage the sacrifice and dedication these fine cogs in the wheel of progress afford the greater British public.

Posted by: Mrs. Hyancinth Bucket at December 11, 2025 11:18 AM (oftw2)

70
So you saw that Tuscany movie with Diane Lane? LOL.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025

Nope. Didn’t even read the book, and I know how much the locals hate it. I live with someone from there.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:18 AM (Wmg4n)

71 Bare Boobs! It's French Culture!

Posted by: Clark Griswald at December 11, 2025 11:18 AM (Q+gd/)

72 Early Bird Special type dinner eater. We call it supper. When two meals a day are the default early makes sense.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:19 AM (pDt9x)

73 You're supposed to let the state protect you!"

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (svLOV)

The same State which is imprisoning people for saying men are men?

Yeah. I'll take my chances with the guns, thanks.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, a black, LGBT, child of immigrants at December 11, 2025 11:19 AM (oSeBJ)

74 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at December 11, 2025 11:19 AM (gdNWk)

75 But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

The vast majority of Western Europeans cannot conceive of a standard of living on par with ours.

The apartment in which we lived was in an upscale neighborhood, and quite large for Paris (1,600 square feet), but was laid out with the assumption that appliances were tiny, energy was expensive, and A/C was nonexistent.

The building itself was laid out for maximum inconvenience too.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:19 AM (n9ltV)

76 For Pete's sake eat dinner at a normal time and then go to fucking bed so you can be at work in the morning. Yeesh.
Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (3BwY

I’m extreme in the other direction as I like to eat dinner at 4pm (lunch at 11am). I go to bed at 9 and up at 4 or 5… I can’t fathom eating dinner at 10pm

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 11:19 AM (xT8gx)

77 It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

Well, I never!

Posted by: United Kingodom at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (zjgNU)

78 But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)

Yeah, American women need to up their game in general.

Fortunately, for us American males, the Euro-Male is kinda ratty.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)

79 59 An edit button! My kingdom for an edit button!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (zjgNU)

Think Before You Post.

Posted by: Sir Mark Nancy Susan Heather Rowley at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (3+0K7)

80 Free medical care.

https://is.gd/36DhgN

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (L/fGl)

81 Apparently, being able to get around on nice trains trumps the loss of freedom...

Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more. Of course, Europeans tend to think that the US is the size of France.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (ExV1e)

82 I would move back to Rome in a heartbeat.

But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

Rome was amazing, but yeah, what you said. You would also have to get used to driving a scooter and parking like a retard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (snZF9)

83 Surprisingly, one of the countries that is turning to capitalism, free expression, freedom of mobility, and competition is Vietnam. Go figure.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (g8Ew8)

84 If Germany hadn't forced Europe to import Syria 10 years ago, Europe would have had to find another solution to their social welfare net crisis.

Something like: having babies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

There would be a big contraction before that happened, because kids don't want babies anymore and birth control drugs means they don't have to.

In the meantime, their welfare state would collapse because there aren't enough people for their aging population to be supported.

They are caught in a trap. And they can't walk out.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

85 I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)

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I would move back to Rome in a heartbeat.

But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)
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No offense, but Rome was my least-favorite Italian city (other than Milan) in terms of where to live. Spectacular things to see and do on vacation. But I found the people smelly, rude, and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Some real Italian smokeshows, though. Like my mom.

Would I live there for 6 months? Why not? But move their permanently? Nope.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

86
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 11:21 AM (y9nCu)

87 82 Rome was amazing, but yeah, what you said. You would also have to get used to driving a scooter and parking like a retard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (snZF9)

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I'd probably walk and use the public transportation.

It's not the best public transportation, but it works. Most of the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

88 Think Before You Post.
Posted by: Sir Mark Nancy Susan Heather Rowley

Yeah, right, like that's gonna happen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

89 IIRC, only Luxembourg is above the capita in earnings of our lowest state. That is nothing to be proud of.

On my first trip to Europe I was shocked at how appliances was so small and cost 2X+ our prices. My eyes were opened to the lies we were f living better that Americans.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (xvV+O)

Also Netherlands and Finland.

Posted by: United Kingodom at December 11, 2025 11:21 AM (zjgNU)

90 Euros are lazy, entitled, sexually disordered, smelly, over educated and host many a sexually transmitted disease.

If they were a plow mule, they would be mercifully put down.

Posted by: Good Riddance at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (FGMmt)

91 I think I'll just blame the Biden administration for propping up a President who had dementia and being a left wing cabal.

Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (Nx5jP)

92 85 No offense, but Rome was my least-favorite Italian city (other than Milan) in terms of where to live. Spectacular things to see and do on vacation. But I found the people smelly, rude, and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Some real Italian smokeshows, though. Like my mom.

Would I live there for 6 months? Why not? But move their permanently? Nope.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

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It's a part sentimental thing, tied to my year living there when I was younger, with the physical beauty of the aged aspects, along with the religious aspect.

I love that place.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

93 First day in Rome some scum bag tried to pick my pocket. He learned Americans get testy and physical quickly when that happens. Most were shocked on the train a very few congratulated me.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 11:23 AM (xvV+O)

94 The Best Left is what I have often heard. The truth of that I do not know.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:23 AM (pDt9x)

95 I would live in Italy in 3 seconds. But not Milan, or Rome, or especially Naples. But Cortona? Yes. It’s a postcard. I would even hang laundry on the line.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:08 AM (Wmg4n)
_______

So you saw that Tuscany movie with Diane Lane? LOL.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

No one can afford kids in Italy, so you'd be living solo like they do.

I'll never forget when my spouse spent 11 months there on deployment. I brought my 18 month old to visit on 2 separate trips and it was like I was bringing a treasure. Folks would treat my spouse and I better just to get close to the little princess b/c she was so rare, and boy did we hear a ton about no one can have a kid b/c no one could afford to raise the kid...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 11:23 AM (tOcjL)

96 Look at the changes in Europe from 2000 to 2025.

Now imagine what Europe will look like in 2050.

An increasingly poor, rapidly Islamfying continent, with Chinese-style social and political repression - no freedom of speech, all "anti-EU" parties banned, and a mandatory digital currency that the government can confiscate from you at any time.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 11, 2025 11:23 AM (xTIDn)

97 91 I think I'll just blame the Biden administration for propping up a President who had dementia and being a left wing cabal.

Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (Nx5jP)

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Troll doesn't realize white birthrates are so low because progressive birthrates are so low.

Conservative whites are at replacement rate of 2.1, barely changing since the 90s.

Conservatives have kids while progressives tell their one kid that they're a racist stain on the world that's going to explode any minute anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

98 Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more. Of course, Europeans tend to think that the US is the size of France.

We do use trains. We use them so we don't have to walk to change terminals at our massive airports.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:24 AM (COQGW)

99 Morning! That woman in the Art Thread looks like an ur-Karen.
And it's 5 below zero here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 11:24 AM (npFr7)

100
Europe has been living on the capital, not the interest, for decades. And now the capital is running out. France is bankrupt and unreformable, Germany is implementing the Morgenthau Plan of its own accord, Britain is sliding into authoritarianism and civil war.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 11:24 AM (tgvbd)

101 If we left NATO the French and Germans would be at each other's throats within six months.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (D+mpw)

Which one is Sunni and which one is Shia?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 11:24 AM (ExV1e)

102 Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? One just ruled that the "Maryland Dad" must be released immediately..
-----

It'll be immediately appealed and stayed.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (TN0g+)

103 and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (n9ltV)

104 I've never left the continental US in all my life. I used to think it might be nice to visit Europe and see the sights, but now I realize two things:

1 - Let's face it, I'm already seeing the apex of the West right here...warts and all.

2 - And if I want to see the ruins of fallen empires...well, I'm watching that in realtime, sadly.

It's a bittersweet set of realizations. Welcome to the 21st century, I guess.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

105
It's a part sentimental thing, tied to my year living there when I was younger, with the physical beauty of the aged aspects, along with the religious aspect.

I love that place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

When we go to Italy, I drag J to Rome for the day to stare in awe at the things many people only get to see in books, and a super fancy dinner. Then it’s out of my system and back to Tuscany. Don’t even speak to me about the horribleness of Pompeii.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (Wmg4n)

106 If we ever go expat, the countries we would consider are Uruguay, Finland, and maybe Portugal.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (lW16O)

107 Surprisingly, one of the countries that is turning to capitalism, free expression, freedom of mobility, and competition is Vietnam. Go figure.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (g8Ew

Also most Vietnamese (especially in the US, but in country as well) LOVE Americans.

We should really increase ties. (I believe Trump has been.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (zjgNU)

108 103 and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (n9ltV)

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"It's all the quality of Banksy!"
-Europe

*not taking it personally, apparently*
-Banksy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

109 82 I would move back to Rome in a heartbeat.

But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

Rome was my favorite Italian city...Venice was an overpriced tourist trap.

I loved Assisi and Lucca, but not quite "cities"...and Pisa is a waste of time...go to Lucca instead...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (tOcjL)

110 Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more. Of course, Europeans tend to think that the US is the size of France.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (ExV1e)

Totally this. When I did that metal cruise every year the vast amount of people on it were from europe. Many of them were here for a month and the cruise was a small part of it. They would rent cars and drive to other places either before or after the cruise. I heard the same stories over and over. After driving to other places they started to understand the size of the US, why we don't have trains running everywhere, and holy shit they love our big cars. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (snZF9)

111 If I was gonna move anywhere outside the USA, it would be to Asia.

Sadly, I can't handle the heat and humidity of most of the countries in the area. But I would take Korea or Japan or Philippines or Bangkok or even Vietnam over any place in Europe.

I may one day do winters in Philippines and summers in USA.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

112
Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more. Of course, Europeans tend to think that the US is the size of France.

__________

We have an extensive and profitable rail system here. Our track mileage is only exceeded by Russia. It is used, as it should be, for freight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (tgvbd)

113 Rome is filthy, covered in graffiti, streets and sidewalks in terrible condition. Crowded, smelly.Food is still fantastic though. I'm glad I got to see the sights but have no desire to go back to Rome. Would love to explore the rest of the country's Bologna and Florence were incredible.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (t/2Uw)

114 105 When we go to Italy, I drag J to Rome for the day to stare in awe at the things many people only get to see in books, and a super fancy dinner. Then it’s out of my system and back to Tuscany. Don’t even speak to me about the horribleness of Pompeii.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (Wmg4n)

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I finally did Pompeii on this trip.

It was a thing to see. Glad I saw it. It's done now, though. Barely saw any of Naples outside of that.

The weird thing is that I'm not a city person. I generally don't like them. But Rome? Rome is just...different.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

115 That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025

Brussels is awful with this, on beautiful buildings.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:27 AM (Q9G/L)

116 Now imagine what Europe will look like in 2050.

An increasingly poor, rapidly Islamfying continent, with Chinese-style social and political repression - no freedom of speech, all "anti-EU" parties banned, and a mandatory digital currency that the government can confiscate from you at any time.

Of course, we're going to look like that too if the Democrats take power back - they will make very, very sure that they will never lose power again.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 11, 2025 11:27 AM (xTIDn)

117
Are many parts of Western Europe beautiful? Absolutely! Many of their cities are marvels of architecture and culture, and its physical beauty is often stunning.

Those marvels of architecture and culture are almost always OLD architecture and culture, from when Europe actually worked. Their modern culture is either wholly produced by or based on American culture, no matter how crude it is.

Europe is a cultural cemetery.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 11:28 AM (y9nCu)

118 Every Christmas i like to call Europe and give them the message from Bruce Willlis.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 11, 2025 11:28 AM (EyfuW)

119 My sister looks just like them.
Posted by: Piper

She was, in fact, talking about her twin sister.

Posted by: The Narrator at December 11, 2025 11:28 AM (ittVa)

120 And they don't pick up dog shit in Italy. It's everywhere.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (XvL8K)

121 Brussels is awful with this, on beautiful buildings.

52% of the school kids in Brussels are Muslim.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (xTIDn)

122 *weeps*

Posted by: Zombie Vlad Tepes at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (Q+gd/)

123 I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

In a way, it is. It's the magnificent testament to human progress that provided a foundation that America built upon even more magnificently.

It's both tragic and criminal that the current "elites" are now systematically tearing down all that was admirable about the culture that the giants who came before them built over so many centuries.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (COQGW)

124 Canadian appliances are also insanely expensive. 2 or 3 times the American price.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (lW16O)

125 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (3BwY8)

126
The weird thing is that I'm not a city person. I generally don't like them. But Rome? Rome is just...different.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO

I have this picture I took of a door in one of the little side streets of Rome. It’s probably my favorite picture, not the Trevi Fountain, not Vatican City, but this little door. I get it.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (OoFl2)

127 I finally did Pompeii on this trip.

It was a thing to see. Glad I saw it. It's done now, though. Barely saw any of Naples outside of that.

The weird thing is that I'm not a city person. I generally don't like them. But Rome? Rome is just...different.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

It's the religion, ruins, and cats for me, while surrounded by an actual city.

It's why I loved Lucca and Assisi - you move from the Roman Empire ruins in Rome to the Dark Ages...and then finish in Florence for the Renaissance (I also liked Florence) and call it a day...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (tOcjL)

128 Over 100 so here is James O’Keefe’s latest not so undercover video with a fat black racist NPR journalist college lecturer. First few minutes are hilarious.

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1998890704206991693

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 11:30 AM (xvV+O)

129 and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (n9ltV)
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It's been a few years since I was in Paris, but when I was there the graffiti was mostly outside the city proper. I remember taking a cab from CDG into the city for the first time, and being like "wtf, am I in the right place?" Outside the city wasn't the City of Lights. It was the City of Shites. Pretty shitty neighborhoods, crawling with obvious immigrants (Muslims), and covered in graffiti. Luckily, all that changed when I got to the city proper. I don't know if that's still true.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

130 Those marvels of architecture and culture are almost always OLD architecture and culture, from when Europe actually worked. Their modern culture is either wholly produced by or based on American culture, no matter how crude it is.

Europe is a cultural cemetery.

Yeah, Europe takes an awful lot of credit for what their ancestors did.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 11, 2025 11:30 AM (xTIDn)

131 and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (n9ltV)

That's what surprised me the most about our trip to Germany this year.

Ghetto-style graffiti everywhere and I mean...Everywhere!!!

The German reputation for order and cleanliness and hardworking is either totally exaggerated or no longer operational.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 11:30 AM (iJfKG)

132 If we left NATO the French and Germans would be at each other's throats within six months.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

And the downside is?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 11:30 AM (hS7lz)

133 125 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (3BwY

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I downloaded Duolingo and started Japanese lessons!

They should probably remove all the Western lettering from the words, though. I'm not learning the Japanese writing systems at all. Maybe over time, it'll get harder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

134 I am a history buff and love to travel. I traveled to Europe for the first time the year I graduated college with a back pack by myself. You could do that at one time. I spent 3 months mostly in Amsterdam and London and then went to Israel. Never felt scared. No cell phones. People were wonderful. I spent days wandering the streets and visiting museums. It was a different world. Authentic. Now lost.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (t/2Uw)

I lived in Germany for four and a half years back in the 70's. Wonderful place. Had a lot of fun.

Went back around 2011. Didn't recognize it. Totally changed. It was like walking around in East Berlin before the wall came down. So sad.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 11, 2025 11:31 AM (g8Ew8)

135
It's both tragic and criminal that the current "elites" are now systematically tearing down all that was admirable about the culture that the giants who came before them built over so many centuries.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (COQGW)

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At the same time, they hide behind that heritage to sneer about how barbaric we are.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 11:31 AM (tgvbd)

136 125 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
Posted by: ballistic at December

Take a Shiba with you. They are a golden ticket! That is our next big vacation. I may have to borrow a Shiba while there as I don’t think I can just bring mine.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:31 AM (OoFl2)

137 110 Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more.

When I was moving from CA to MD, I actually thought about taking Amtrak just to enjoy the view and relax.

An airline ticket was less than half the price. Easy choice.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 11:31 AM (svLOV)

138 In Europe, sometimes the washing machine is in the kitchen

and their electrical outlets look funny

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 11:32 AM (zzfOt)

139 I’ve been to the Paris of the future when I went to Marseilles in 1991.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 11:32 AM (xvV+O)

140 Budapest is my favorite city. Beautiful, historic, walkable, great food, inexpensive and they hate socialists .

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:32 AM (t/2Uw)

141 119 My sister looks just like them.
Posted by: Piper

She was, in fact, talking about her twin sister.
Posted by: The Narrator at December 11, 2025 11:28 AM (ittVa

Sadly, no. She is 21 months older than me!

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:33 AM (OoFl2)

142 If I was gonna move anywhere outside the USA, it would be to Asia.

Sadly, I can't handle the heat and humidity of most of the countries in the area. But I would take Korea or Japan or Philippines or Bangkok or even Vietnam over any place in Europe.

I may one day do winters in Philippines and summers in USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

Korea and Japan both have temperate climates, influenced by the fact they are both coastal countries. Tokyo is right in the middle of Japan and is about the same latitude of Asheville, NC.

Hokkaido (Northernmost island) is quite cool and has serious winters.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:34 AM (zjgNU)

143
Budapest is my favorite city. Beautiful, historic, walkable, great food, inexpensive and they hate socialists .
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:32 AM (t/2Uw)

___________

Nothing like a bout of communism to make you hate socialism.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 11:34 AM (tgvbd)

144 Eastern Europe still has some hope. I would love to visit there and see Cracow, Prague, and Budapest.

I loved Moscow when I was there in the Yeltsin years. Yeah, it was pretty filthy, but you kind of expect that in Russia. Would love to see St. Petersburg, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

145 20
Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? ‘

Judging by what I see on the Lotus Eaters podcast, they are worse.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 11, 2025 11:34 AM (jbnUc)

146 We have an extensive and profitable rail system here. Our track mileage is only exceeded by Russia. It is used, as it should be, for freight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (tgvbd)

Exactly! And we use our trucking system for the last mile, which keeps massive train stations outside of our cities!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:34 AM (n9ltV)

147 64 "Federal judge orders Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody" crows CBS news...

The Dems and the left have spent millions on this trash getting him out of legal custody so he can roam free...just to watch him go right back in...which will be the case again very shortly.

These people are evil idiots - they're not going to get anything out of this but a hole in their wallet and bad PR...

Posted by: Boswell at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (NTVPI)

Isn't he under a sentence from Tennessee for some crime? Just put him back in the State pen, until this lawless order is quashed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 11:34 AM (npFr7)

148 Totally OT:

Robert Pattinson seems to like to be in the center of Love Triangles.

Poor Tom Holland.

Short Kings get no respect.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 11:34 AM (XV/Pl)

149
Passenger rail: 19th century technology at 21st century costs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 11:36 AM (tgvbd)

150 Budapest is my favorite city. Beautiful, historic, walkable, great food, inexpensive and they hate socialists .
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:32 AM (t/2Uw)

Prague is great too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:36 AM (COQGW)

151 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (3BwY

Many people mistake politeness for kindness.

They are polite to a fault, but not particularly kind, especially to outsiders.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:36 AM (zjgNU)

152
We have an extensive and profitable rail system here. Our track mileage is only exceeded by Russia. It is used, as it should be, for freight.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (tgvbd)

And depending on freight transport rates at any given time, a good portion of that containerized freight is Chinese goods transiting the US by rail from the West Coast to East in order to be shipped to Europe.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 11:36 AM (y9nCu)

153 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (3BwY

Weird.

I've never had an experience like that in Japan, and I've been there a lot, since I was stationed there in the late 80s.

Not saying it didn't happen to you, but it didn't to me. Now, France on the other hand is where I actually saw some anti-American rudeness at a couple of restaurants.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 11:36 AM (iJfKG)

154 Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? ‘

FUN FACT: Roland Freisler was the model for Judge Boasberg.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:37 AM (COQGW)

155 UNEXPECTEDLY!

Headline (Bloomberg)

"US trade deficit unexpectedly shrinks to smallest since 2020"

Posted by: mrp at December 11, 2025 11:37 AM (rj6Yv)

156 Ran across a good example of how the European's have allowed their military forces to decay into near non-existence. The British Navy for a couple of centuries was the most powerful naval force in the world; even in the 80's they didn't have much trouble operating in the Falklands War.

As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often. That plus a few subs is it, that's the entire British Navy now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:38 AM (uWKK8)

157 155 UNEXPECTEDLY!

Headline (Bloomberg)

"US trade deficit unexpectedly shrinks to smallest since 2020"
Posted by: mrp at December 11, 2025 11:37 AM (rj6Yv)

A threadbare word.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:38 AM (pDt9x)

158 Prague is near the top of my bucket list. I have never been to Poland and it is where my grandparents were from.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:38 AM (t/2Uw)

159 Beautiful, historic, walkable, great food, inexpensive and they hate socialists

The last part sold me. Time to start looking for plane tickets.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 11:39 AM (svLOV)

160 156 Ran across a good example of how the European's have allowed their military forces to decay into near non-existence. The British Navy for a couple of centuries was the most powerful naval force in the world; even in the 80's they didn't have much trouble operating in the Falklands War.

As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often. That plus a few subs is it, that's the entire British Navy now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:38 AM (uWKK

Like the Cajun Navy, only their food sucks.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:39 AM (pDt9x)

161 Poland and Hungary are the only sane European countries at this point.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:39 AM (t/2Uw)

162 That plus a few subs is it, that's the entire British Navy now.
Posted by: Tom Servo

But they still have rum, sodomy, and the lash, right? So they're good.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

163 As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often.

They could probably still take the Russians in a surface engagement.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:40 AM (COQGW)

164 161 Poland and Hungary are the only sane European countries at this point.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:39 AM (t/2Uw)

Exhausted cultures?? Like farmed out soil.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:40 AM (pDt9x)

165 163 As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often.

They could probably still take the Russians in a surface engagement.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:40 AM (COQGW)

Like Bum Fights.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:41 AM (pDt9x)

166 Don’t even speak to me about the horribleness of Pompeii.
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I've got to admit I'd like to see the venue that Pink Floyd filmed at all those years ago.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 11:41 AM (TN0g+)

167 May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

That masterful line always gets me. Unfortunately, Idiocracy approaches and some will say he talks like a fag...

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 11:41 AM (vhFJq)

168 As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often. That plus a few subs is it, that's the entire British Navy now.
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Probably for the best, since the Muslims will soon control the UK Government/military. Hopefully we have a plan to exfil the nukes.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 11, 2025 11:41 AM (qUkBO)

169
I loved Moscow when I was there in the Yeltsin years. Yeah, it was pretty filthy, but you kind of expect that in Russia. Would love to see St. Petersburg, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

I read somewhere that all cities look inviting in the winter, because the snow hides the filth and garbage.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 11:41 AM (y9nCu)

170 Poland and Hungary are the only sane European countries at this point.

And the current ruling party in Poland is pro-EU, pro-mass immigration, and all the rest.

They're just not strong enough to actually implement these policies yet.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 11, 2025 11:42 AM (xTIDn)

171 Prague is near the top of my bucket list.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Same here.

I used to want to see Vienna, too, but I here it's a lost cause these days. The capital of classical music is now just another muzzied-up stan.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

172 If we ever go expat, the countries we would consider are Uruguay, Finland, and maybe Portugal.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (lW16O)

Uruguay, and also Paraguay, have done a stellar job of staying out of the news. That's a good thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (npFr7)

173 We have had friends in Northern Italy for years. Have traveled there. The complaints registered in the rant do not seem to apply there, as far as I can tell. YMMV.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (MZ+PY)

174 Probably for the best, since the Muslims will soon control the UK Government/military. Hopefully we have a plan to exfil the nukes.

It's been more than a decade since the Royal Navy has successfully launched a Trident missile from a sub.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (xTIDn)

175 Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? One just ruled that the "Maryland Dad" must be released immediately.

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Point Counterpoint.

House Dem Files Articles Of Impeachment Against RFK Jr. For Turning His Back On Science

Lila Rose
@LilaGraceRose
Unjust.
Swiss man Emanuel Brünisholz has been jailed for refusing to pay a fine after posting a Facebook comment noting the differences between male and female skeletons.
The government claims his statement violated anti-discrimination laws against those who say they are “LGBTQ”
Pointing out the biological differences between men and women isn’t “hatred” — it’s acknowledging basic science.

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Some science good. Other science bad.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)

176 My sister lives in France. She takes TDS to the extreme. Anyhow, she was telling me about lying on a gurney in a hospital hallway for something like six hours. I asked her if that ever happened to her when she lived in NYC, and invited her to tell me how superior socialized medicine is compared to the USA.

Posted by: windbag at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (rEn7R)

177
They could probably still take the Russians in a surface engagement.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:40 AM (COQGW)

They probably could. It's amazing to recall that once the Soviet Navy was considered second only to the US in strength. Any Euro who still thinks that Russia is some giant military power should ponder this for a while.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (uWKK8)

178 Poland and Hungary are the only sane European countries at this point.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:39 AM (t/2Uw)

The EU's fire brigades when the SHTF.

Posted by: mrp at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (rj6Yv)

179 171 I used to want to see Vienna, too, but I here it's a lost cause these days. The capital of classical music is now just another muzzied-up stan.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

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Was there a few months ago.

It's very clean and very...18th century.

The largest Muslim presence I felt in my last Europe trip was in Munich, and that was one concentrated little pro-Hamas protest outside of St. Stephen's of all places.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

180 and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist.

My brother's experience, as well, and he wrote and spoke the language.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 11:44 AM (vhFJq)

181
Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? One just ruled that the "Maryland Dad" must be released immediately..
Posted by: It's me donna

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Which means he's in detention, which means he's awaiting... what? Trial? Deportation? How long has the "what" not happened and why are we still waiting for it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 11, 2025 11:44 AM (1N/bM)

182 I read somewhere that all cities look inviting in the winter, because the snow hides the filth and garbage.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I was in Moscow in the winter, and you could still see the grime everywhere. But, as I said above, it's Russia, so you just accept it.

One of the coldest days I've ever experienced was the day I toured the Kremlin. But, again, you expect that in Russia. It was very appropriate.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

183 176 My sister lives in France. She takes TDS to the extreme. Anyhow, she was telling me about lying on a gurney in a hospital hallway for something like six hours. I asked her if that ever happened to her when she lived in NYC, and invited her to tell me how superior socialized medicine is compared to the USA.

Posted by: windbag at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (rEn7R)

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There was a movie made in Canada about 20 years ago: The Barbarian Invasions (no, it has nothing to do with immigration, actually).

It went from critical darling to cultural hatepoint pre-social media for an interesting reason.

It's about aging leftists reflecting on life, but the actual literal view of the Canadian healthcare system showed overcrowded hospitals with patients waiting in hallways on gurneys while the main character's son had to negotiate with people to get his father in to see a specialist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

184 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 11, 2025 11:46 AM (gdNWk)

185 "Our government makes sure we get XX days of vacation yearly."

I didn't use any vacation days this year. I'll live.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 11, 2025 11:46 AM (IifOV)

186 > Probably for the best, since the Muslims will soon control the UK Government/military. Hopefully we have a plan to exfil the nukes.
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IIRC, all their nukes are on their ballistic missile subs. I don't think they've got "bombs" in the traditional sense or missiles (ICBMs).

So, if that's it... we'll sink the subs and be done with it.

There's no possible way to remove the weapons on those submarines while they are in port. In England. Run by Islamists hell bent on using them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 11:46 AM (NwnyJ)

187 >They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
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maybe they're still butthurt over getting nuked

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 11:47 AM (ZxPkt)

188 FUN FACT: Roland Freisler was the model for Judge Boasberg.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:37 AM (COQGW)

It wasn't those blue weirdos from Prometheus?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 11:47 AM (Vq1pX)

189 Italy, until one gets sick then its get home quick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:47 AM (0XZup)

190 I lived in Germany for two tours in the 70's and 80's. Also Turkey for a year in '85. My apartment in Turkey had a kitchen that was bigger than any place I lived in Germany. But very small living room. Weird that way.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 11:47 AM (2WIwB)

191 Ban it!

New York Post
@nypost
‘Jingle Bells’ is racist, claims video shared by Joy Reid — sparking Christmas culture war

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

192 Why was Chase Bank "spoofing" the silver market all through 2010 to 2020? What is "spoofing"? Suppose you want to hold down the price of a commodity. Here is the illegal trick you could use: tell the market you are selling the commodity - then cancel that offer to sell. If you carefully time this you can hold the price down. Chase admitted they were doing that and paid a fine of $920,000,000 for doing that.

Why hold the price down? Because you are buying the commodity and keeping it, and you want to keep the price low. They had to be buying huge amounts of silver to afford an almost billion dollar fine.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 11, 2025 11:48 AM (Da7Vv)

193 Italy, until one gets sick then its get home quick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:47 AM (0XZup)
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Yeah, buy the best travel insurance you can afford.

Posted by: mrp at December 11, 2025 11:48 AM (rj6Yv)

194 Canadian appliances are also insanely expensive. 2 or 3 times the American price.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (lW16O)

Cannot confirm or deny. I have not bought a new appliance in 20 years. Last "major" appliance I bought was a used washing machine for $125. I was looking for a new drip coffee maker, and the el-cheapos at WalMart start at twenty dollars. I got a nice used one at a thrift shop for nine bucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 11:48 AM (npFr7)

195 When the Islamists take full control of Denmark, and Denmark still owns Greenland...

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (Q+gd/)

196 191 Ban it!

New York Post
@nypost
‘Jingle Bells’ is racist, claims video shared by Joy Reid — sparking Christmas culture war

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

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There is no war on Christmas.

There are just the educated elite making all aspects of Christmas problematic and unfit for public social life which you poor rubes don't understand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

197 @BillMelugin_
·
56m
Eyebrow raising moment during Secretary Noem’s testimony.

@BennieGThompson
refers to recent shooting of National Guard soldiers in DC as “unfortunate accident”.

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (ZxPkt)

198 For all of our well known problems there is no place like the US on earth. One of the biggest problems we have is a society where few know this simple truth. They are bombarded with propaganda from our elites telling them the US is a backward country without a distinct culture while Europe is a refined and enlightened wonderland.

They are being lied to. The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (viF8m)

199 cont from 190

The Germany I lived in would not tolerate what is there now. But then they were the WW 2 generation. They didn't tolerate a lot of stuff.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (2WIwB)

200
Now, France on the other hand is where I actually saw some anti-American rudeness at a couple of restaurants.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 11:36 AM (iJfKG)

During the Desert Shield buildup in 1990, a bunch of us American soldiers serving as peacekeepers went to Eilat to drink beer and chase Euro women. We were all at a big table having dinner one night and the Israeli waiter started off being polite, but then started lecturing us, literally wagging his finger in our faces telling us that we needed to do something about Saddam.

As much as I support and admire Israel as a country, in my experience a big chunk of individual Israelis are rude assholes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (y9nCu)

201 Silver spot price, 63.60/ounce.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (pDt9x)

202 197 @BillMelugin_
·
56m
Eyebrow raising moment during Secretary Noem’s testimony.

@BennieGThompson
refers to recent shooting of National Guard soldiers in DC as “unfortunate accident”.

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (ZxPkt)

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Think he survives a post VRA Section 2 world as the sole black and Democrat rep in Mississippi?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

203 There's no possible way to remove the weapons on those submarines while they are in port. In England. Run by Islamists hell bent on using them.
__

Perhaps the last native Captains will sail them to Norfolk when the Quran hits the fan.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 11, 2025 11:50 AM (qUkBO)

204 I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW IT!

Posted by: Everything about Liberalism is Jewish at December 11, 2025 11:50 AM (K+su+)

205 *Norfolk, VA.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 11, 2025 11:50 AM (qUkBO)

206 I'll just leave this here.

Variety@Variety
Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow Among 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Political Journalism Honorees

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)

207 There's no possible way to remove the weapons on those submarines while they are in port. In England. Run by Islamists hell bent on using them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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It's conceiveable that the Naval officers still have some since and unlike the French in Moroco will bring their ships to dock in Virginia?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:51 AM (0XZup)

208 Europe? Bah, humbug. Coke comes in a thimble. Fit for nary a sip.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 11:52 AM (1Nv0l)

209 Canadian appliances are also insanely expensive. 2 or 3 times the American price.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (lW16O)

But they do sell better toilets there...none of this low-flush garbage. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 11:52 AM (2WIwB)

210
The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (viF8m)

THIS. FOR THE LOVE OF SWEET BABY JESUS, THIS

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 11:52 AM (y9nCu)

211 @BennieGThompson
refers to recent shooting of National Guard soldiers in DC as “unfortunate accident”.

-
Ted Bundy had a shit load of those.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)

212 Oh hey, so what's the weather like over in Chattogram today?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 11:53 AM (Vq1pX)

213 206 leftists love giving themselves awards for being leftists.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 11:53 AM (1Nv0l)

214 Comment 204, before is was scrubbed, was more more over the top than I have seen here in a long long time.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:53 AM (pDt9x)

215 New York Post
@nypost
‘Jingle Bells’ is racist, claims video shared by Joy Reid — sparking Christmas culture war

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
_________

Jeez, what's she said about White Christmas?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 11:53 AM (XvL8K)

216 Another thought piece that hits it out of the ballpark, CBD.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 11:54 AM (qBdHI)

217 I was about to say so,etching about the troll but CBD was quick. Thank you.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:54 AM (t/2Uw)

218 Jeez, what's she said about White Christmas?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 11:53 AM (XvL8K)

You mean Cloud Dancer Christmas?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 11, 2025 11:55 AM (3+0K7)

219 The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Last best hope of man on earth.

Posted by: Honest Abe at December 11, 2025 11:55 AM (1Nv0l)

220 Squeezing racism out of Jingle Bells is incomprehensible.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 11:55 AM (pDt9x)

221
Jeez, what's she said about White Christmas?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 11:53 AM (XvL8K)

Ask her about the phrase "white as snow". Or better yet, "black ice"

REEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 11:55 AM (y9nCu)

222 107
‘ one of the countries that is turning to capitalism, free expression, freedom of mobility, and competition is Vietnam.’

It is funny how we couldn’t force them to take any of those things 55 years ago. They were ready to fight to the last man.
But as soon as it was THEIR idea… they couldn’t have enough.
Maybe they are like Americans.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 11, 2025 11:55 AM (jbnUc)

223 They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
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maybe they're still butthurt over getting nuked
Posted by: Don Black

Don't start none. Won't be none.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 11:56 AM (hS7lz)

224 They are being lied to. The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (viF8m)

Truth

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 11, 2025 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)

225 we win, WE WIN!!

"Critical minerals used for building weapons and other essential electronics have been discovered in the sands of Utah's Silicon Ridge.

Ionic Mineral Technologies (IMT) uncovered 16 different types of high quality minerals within its 74,000 square foot mining site in Provo.

The find could give the US an edge over China which has long dominated the market.

'You can’t make a vehicle without these, you can’t make a fighter jet without some of these metals,' IMT's founder and CEO Andre Zeitoun told the Wall Street Journal.

Zeitoun added that the minerals discovered are used for semiconductors, electronics, and chips that power artificial intelligence.

IMT told the Wall Street Journal the minerals discovered include lithium, alumina, germanium, rubidium, cesium, vanadium and niobium."

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 11:56 AM (g47mK)

226 Another thought piece that hits it out of the ballpark, CBD.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 11:54 AM (qBdHI)

Yeah, he's very rarely within the ballpark, isn't he?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 11:56 AM (Vq1pX)

227 NIOBIUM!

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 11:56 AM (g47mK)

228 222 107
‘ one of the countries that is turning to capitalism, free expression, freedom of mobility, and competition is Vietnam.’

It is funny how we couldn’t force them to take any of those things 55 years ago. They were ready to fight to the last man.
But as soon as it was THEIR idea… they couldn’t have enough.
Maybe they are like Americans.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 11, 2025 11:55 AM (jbnUc)

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It's my understanding that the Vietnamese people saw it as a nationalistic fight against colonialism, America just the latest in a long line that dates back to Chinese fights to control it, and that their leaders just happened to be communist at the time. It wasn't ideological for most of the Vietnamese.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

229 They probably could. It's amazing to recall that once the Soviet Navy was considered second only to the US in strength. Any Euro who still thinks that Russia is some giant military power should ponder this for a while.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (uWKK

The Soviets wanted to project power worldwide. Putin is only interested in the "near-abroad".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 11:57 AM (npFr7)

230 IMT told the Wall Street Journal the minerals discovered include lithium, alumina, germanium, rubidium, cesium, vanadium and niobium."
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 11:56 AM (g47mK)

Judge Boasberg rules that the entire thing has to be sold to China immediately.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 11:57 AM (Vq1pX)

231 I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

Blink three times if you are being held against your will and commenting under duress.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 11:57 AM (a3CJ+)

232 Squeezing racism out of Jingle Bells is incomprehensible.
Posted by: tubal

Apparently, it was written by a former Confederate soldier and, she alleges, was intended to be sung in black face at minstrel shows.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

233 Federal judge just ordered Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody. Just once, just once I would love to hear Trump tell this judge to pound sand.

https://tinyurl.com/38yjrnpk

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 11:59 AM (5xuJ/)

234 > Perhaps the last native Captains will sail them to Norfolk when the Quran hits the fan.
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I have a rough outline in my head for a bang up techno-thriller. Needs some star power, a hot babe and cool AI special effects.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 11:59 AM (NwnyJ)

235 232 Squeezing racism out of Jingle Bells is incomprehensible.
Posted by: tubal

Apparently, it was written by a former Confederate soldier and, she alleges, was intended to be sung in black face at minstrel shows.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

Oh, yeah, we always sang it in blackface. Stupid Bitch.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

236
They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
----

maybe they're still butthurt over getting nuked
Posted by: Don Black

*Du Pont says hello*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2025 12:00 PM (y9nCu)

237 Go big or go home!

Climate activists want to save the world by draining the Mediterranean Sea into the Egyptian desert

https://is.gd/91Xv2Z

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (L/fGl)

238 Stupid Bitch.
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE STUPID BITCH EXACTLY FITS THE METER OF THE SONG

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (Vq1pX)

239 @greg_price11
·
1h
A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (ZxPkt)

240 The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.
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The US at its core has always represented "hope". The idea that all men were created equal. That all men have the rights. That a man could be born poor, but still have an opinion. That a man could be lacking in some way but still achieve something of note, and keep whatever he achieved rather than casting it away to the state. That a man could make mistakes, and think bad thoughts, and yet somehow still find redemption. Yes redemption, because at its core the US has always embraced Judeo-Christian values.

Our Nation's struggles to remain "the light of the free world" are tied almost entirely to our struggle to remain a nation that embraces Judeo-Christian values. Because without those values, it becomes quite easy to lose one's hope. Without hope, and the possibility of redemption, one day soon looks just like the next, and a feeling of nothingness can overtake our being.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 12:02 PM (TN0g+)

241 239 @greg_price11
·
1h
A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (ZxPkt)

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Sending Catholic Hispanics back to majority Catholic Hispanic countries is a moral sin, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

242 what's she said about White Christmas?

"Baby it's cold outside" is a roofie rape song!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 11, 2025 12:03 PM (xyTle)

243 "ballsy" is a stance.

Maria Corina Machado had to sneak out of Venezuela in disguise to get to Oslo for her Nobel.
It was first in a wig and disguise to get to the coast, then onboard a small launch on the 9th, and then across the Gulf on the 10th to Miami where she got on a private jet for the leg across the Atlantic
During that time the US ran a couple of F-18's over the area to the dismay of the Venezuelans, and then the following day seized an oil tanker that was false flagged (we may have heard of this).

Was this done to support Corina Machado? Or was it just pushed up because it would be convenient? Or just happenstance?
Ballsy. This is Argo level ballsy.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:03 PM (rbvCR)

244 Big Ben Roethlisberger for the win!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 12:03 PM (xvV+O)

245 They are bombarded with propaganda from our elites telling them the US is a backward country without a distinct culture

If when they say "backward" they mean "not progressive enough", then, from their perspective I would agree and would answer: "we aren't 'backward' enough".

As for distinct culture, they are correct. The US has no distinct culture. Leftists brag that the US is a Salad Bowl of multi-culturalism that particularly hates the WASP culture that built this place from scratch.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 12:03 PM (/TiS1)

246 1h
A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."
Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (ZxPkt)

You can take the kid out of the theater, but... he'll still be a ridiculous garbage baby anywhere else, regardless.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:03 PM (Vq1pX)

247 America was foundationally made of people who wanted to get the hell away from European oppression. Europe sucked back then, for, you know, people who did not want their faces ground by the boot of the state.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:04 PM (pDt9x)

248 So Spanish Inquisition cosplay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 11, 2025 12:04 PM (MeJZi)

249 Apparently, it was written by a former Confederate soldier and, she alleges, was intended to be sung in black face at minstrel shows.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

Oh, yeah, we always sang it in blackface. Stupid Bitch.
Posted by: tubal
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It's not racism its cultural appropriation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:05 PM (0XZup)

250 This is Argo level ballsy.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:03 PM (rbvCR)

I love the subtext.

"Hey let's support this lady getting a Peace Prize by committing a bunch of acts of war against the shithole that's been oppressing her. That'll be funny, right?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:05 PM (Vq1pX)

251 Backfield in motion?

Michigan's head football coach was just fired for an alleged affair ... then he was arrested 😬

https://is.gd/PYK27P

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Fella needs to read some Proverbs 5.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:06 PM (L/fGl)

252 A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."

His sum knowledge of Christianity comes from the movie 'Exorcist'.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 12:06 PM (/TiS1)

253 "Critical minerals used for building weapons and other essential electronics have been discovered in the sands of Utah's Silicon Ridge.

Ionic Mineral Technologies (IMT) uncovered 16 different types of high quality minerals within its 74,000 square foot mining site in Provo.

The find could give the US an edge over China which has long dominated the market.

'You can’t make a vehicle without these, you can’t make a fighter jet without some of these metals,' IMT's founder and CEO Andre Zeitoun told the Wall Street Journal.

Zeitoun added that the minerals discovered are used for semiconductors, electronics, and chips that power artificial intelligence.

IMT told the Wall Street Journal the minerals discovered include lithium, alumina, germanium, rubidium, cesium, vanadium and niobium."
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 11:56 AM (g47mK)

I smell 100% bullshit. Their "mine site" is less than 2 acres, for one. Two, dissolve enough dirt and sand in acid, and run it through a spectrometer, you will "detect" the presence of a host of elements. None of which are sufficiently concentrated to be considered "ore".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (npFr7)

254 I feel like the phrase "blunt trauma" does not appear in the news coming out of our capitol nearly often enough.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (Vq1pX)

255 In a nutshell, Western Europeans are dhimmi.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (jc0TO)

256 I have a rough outline in my head for a bang up techno-thriller. Needs some star power, a hot babe and cool AI special effects.

Hollyweird will want the english muzzies to be german nazis and the US president to be Ilhan Omar but played by Samuel Jackson.

Posted by: The Sum Of All Fears at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (FGMmt)

257 More and more I am convinced that an entire generation of assholes will have to die off before America can regain its former glory.

Like in The Ten Commandments
The Israelites had to wander the desert for 40 years, 'until the entire generation that had sinned, was consumed'

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (ZxPkt)

258 253

I smell 100% bullshit. Their "mine site" is less than 2 acres, for one. Two, dissolve enough dirt and sand in acid, and run it through a spectrometer, you will "detect" the presence of a host of elements. None of which are sufficiently concentrated to be considered "ore".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (npFr7)

So, AOP, we can put you down for how many Shares??

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:09 PM (pDt9x)

259 >>As for distinct culture, they are correct. The US has no distinct culture. Leftists brag that the US is a Salad Bowl of multi-culturalism that particularly hates the WASP culture that built this place from scratch.

I disagree with that. I've traveled pretty extensively both foreign and domestic and while the US has different customs and traditions in various regions and locations it is all at it's core distinctly American.

Yes, it has been purposefully degraded by our betters but it's still there. When you return to the US from a foreign destination you know you are home whether you arrive in Seattle or Atlanta. We are basically a good and just people largely as was noted above by our Judeo Christian roots. The left constantly works to erase it but it's still there. The responsibility of every generation of Americans is to insure it always remains otherwise we are just another place on a map.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 12:10 PM (viF8m)

260 Michigan's head football coach was just fired for an alleged affair ... then he was arrested 😬

https://is.gd/PYK27P

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Fella needs to read some Proverbs 5.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:06 PM (L/fGl)

BLACK MAN'S KRYPTONITE!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 12:11 PM (uWKK8)

261 257 More and more I am convinced that an entire generation of assholes will have to die off before America can regain its former glory.

Like in The Ten Commandments
The Israelites had to wander the desert for 40 years, 'until the entire generation that had sinned, was consumed'
Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (ZxPkt)

That is actually a pretty good analogy. Did Trump speak to the rock, or whack it?

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:11 PM (pDt9x)

262 Is the culture of Paris the same as the culture of the Vendee?

Oh, wow...they're different, huh?

I guess France has no culture.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

263 "this Michigan scandal is the biggest scandal in college football since the last Michigan scandal"

lol

no shit.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 12:12 PM (Y1sOo)

264 I spent a lot of time in Malmo in the '90s because my largest customer back then was in Landskrona. It was fantastic then, but apparently a shithole now. I pity people who never got to experience London or Paris back when they were English and French, as opposed to multi-cultural.

Posted by: jwest at December 11, 2025 12:12 PM (lnMN4)

265 French culture > petri dish?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 11, 2025 12:13 PM (MeJZi)

266 Like in The Ten Commandments
The Israelites had to wander the desert for 40 years, 'until the entire generation that had sinned, was consumed'
Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (ZxPkt)

Go long on brazen serpents, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:13 PM (rbvCR)

267 1h
A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."
Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (ZxPkt)

But as a leftist he believes Jesus is just Palestinian dude without power.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at December 11, 2025 12:13 PM (8CIFn)

268 .
NOOD

Ace is up!

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 11, 2025 12:13 PM (O7YUW)

269 The Crockett challenge.

CROCKETT: "I challenge somebody to go and find a clip of a Democrat invoking violence!"

The GOP response.

https://is.gd/ePoqMd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:14 PM (L/fGl)

270 Federal judge just ordered Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody. Just once, just once I would love to hear Trump tell this judge to pound sand.

https://tinyurl.com/38yjrnpk
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 11:59 AM

Almost every detail in this article is a lie.

*looks*

Oh, The Hill, of course.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:14 PM (jc0TO)

271 Michigan's head football coach was just fired for an alleged affair ... then he was arrested

Where de white wimmens at?

Posted by: Sheriff Sherrone Moore, Sex Pest at December 11, 2025 12:14 PM (FGMmt)

272 Hrm. I may not have closed that tag properly. Let's just do that now.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 11, 2025 12:14 PM (O7YUW)

273 "getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old."

They did you a favor.

With that attitude and if they let you in, imagine what they might have put in your food then stand around the kitchen laughing and high-fiving each other while you ate it.

I know a lady who married a Japanese guy, and she won't go there for the blatant bigotry she experienced when visiting his family. (His father was a fighter pilot in WWII, interestingly.)

Posted by: ju at December 11, 2025 12:15 PM (EgpoY)

274 *Checks cheap Hungarian/English phrase book*

Snakes in brassieres?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 11, 2025 12:15 PM (MeJZi)

275 Almost every detail in this article is a lie.

*looks*

Oh, The Hill, of course.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:14 PM (jc0TO)

Covered by other sources as well. Original, more than likely, AP or CNN News Source. But, it's not just The Hill.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 12:17 PM (5xuJ/)

276 251 Backfield in motion?

Michigan's head football coach was just fired for an alleged affair ... then he was arrested 😬

https://is.gd/PYK27P

-
Fella needs to read some Proverbs 5.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:06 PM (L/fGl)
------------

She confessed the relationship to the school administration. (what's up with that?)
His mistress turned him in to the school board.
Then he treatens her and his wife and himself.

The big question is; Which one is the crazyest?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (0XZup)

277 >>>Apparently, being able to get around on nice trains trumps [x, y, z].

"Trump!"

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (RuTUS)

278 with a knife

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:19 PM (0XZup)

279 >>>I know a lady who married a Japanese guy, and she won't go there for the blatant bigotry she experienced when visiting his family. (His father was a fighter pilot in WWII, interestingly.)
Posted by: ju
---

There's a scenario for book writers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:21 PM (0XZup)

280 268 .
NOOD

Ace is up!

NOOD!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 11, 2025 12:13 PM (O7YUW)

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 12:25 PM (RuTUS)

281 If it weren't for the quality and availability of healthcare I could live in Italy. I just wish some times that life would slow down a bit and be less complicated.

Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025 12:46 PM (8I4hW)

282 Why is the Maryland Dad still here? This is ridiculous.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 11, 2025 12:48 PM (7PLwo)

283 My Liberal Friend: A Judge's Ruling is Sacred Law!

Me: So, the next day, when Another Judge overrules, it's not Sacred Law anymore?

My Liberal Friend: Trump is Wrecking The Sacred White House!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 11, 2025 12:53 PM (6qf1m)

284 I was going to say Eastern Europe is better off than Western but that's not really true. The EU has taken care of that neatly.

It's the nightmare version of the UN, having control of EVERYTHING including currency.

The UK is doing poorly; Brexit paused their decline for a bit, before they decided to waste all of the exit benefits immediately.

Posted by: Jon at December 11, 2025 01:39 PM (WMbOh)

285 On the subject of beautiful architecture in Europe....

You don't get credit in 2025 for something built in 1650 that you haven't burned down yet when discussing culture, just like we can't point to the Grand Canyon or Yosemite. What is the *new* part of, say the Louvre? An ugly glass pyramid entrance that is an invasion...on the order of the pyramid the US put up in Memphis.

London's pickle shaped skyscraper is dumber than most US ones. The more normal ones at Canary Wharf are nice enough, but just standard skyscrapers from anywhere. No advantage there.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 01:53 PM (8avO+)

286 The big question is; Which one is the crazyest?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:18 PM (0XZup)

Don't know if I call it crazy or dumb, but going for strange as the HC of a college program with just a couple years of indifferent success is pretty damn stupid. Hire a security guard if the gals are jumping for you and you can't resist. There's too much money at stake.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 01:56 PM (8avO+)

287 Go big or go home!

Climate activists want to save the world by draining the Mediterranean Sea into the Egyptian desert

https://is.gd/91Xv2Z
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (L/fGl)

Draining a sea into a salt flat is gonna give you a very salty sea that is of little use to anyone. I assume this is the Qattara Depression?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 11, 2025 02:01 PM (8avO+)

288 Some in our family lived in France for 5 years. The combo washer/dryer took so long to dry-they didn't have space to put out a clothes line. They remarked on how tough the city there was for older people.
They saw that first hand yet when they returned Europe so much better than US and trips in state are so low brow. Gotta keep up with the status global citizens.
One country I'd love to visit is Poland. Other than that we love exploring this country.

Posted by: hyacinth at December 11, 2025 02:02 PM (ryp7h)

289 The Euro-Weenie-Union playing Lets Be Friends with those who don't want to be friends

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 11, 2025 06:26 PM (wGqjj)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Lady Ottoline Morrell
Augustus John

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:30 AM (hS7lz)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 09:30 AM (/BPde)

3 wtfo

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

4 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:30 AM (R11M+)

5 She sounds hideous.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (/BPde)

6 I'm OK with it except the mouth. Looks like she has braces.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (6qf1m)

7 triple bagger

1 for the dog too

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

8 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (hS7lz)

9 Yuck. She must be a Dem congresswoman.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

10 Nude Painting of Bea Arthur > This Painting

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (/BPde)

11 That's a dude.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (ESVrU)

12 she paid for that?

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (R11M+)

13 Lady Ottoline Morrell

Of the Habsburg Morrells?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (Riz8t)

14 Hope he made bank for painting this.......It would be the only reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (/BPde)

15 Temperature just dropped 30 degrees

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (hS7lz)

16 Is she biting on a bullet? Not an attractive look. Would not hang.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (2NHgQ)

17 I hope she was one of those (exceedingly rare) ladies with a sweet soul inside that exterior.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

18 The first Karen.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

19 "she wanna pearl necklace."

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

20 LOL. She looks like she just smelled something bad.

Posted by: Tuna at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

21 Well painted. I like the dress and the jewelry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (ix8EF)

22 She must have been really, really wealthy to find a husband, or she was the daughter of a Lord.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (W7XSX)

23 NPG

Lady Ottoline Morrell

by Augustus John
oil on canvas, 1919
27 1/8 in. x 20 1/8 in. (690 mm x 511 mm)
Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1990

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

24 Swallow already...

Posted by: Duke Morrell at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (FGMmt)

25 The first Karen.

No, that would be Karenus Maximus. She was Roman.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (Riz8t)

26 "she paid for that?"

That's what I was thinking. It's one thing to be unattractive, it's another to be evil, and it's yet another thing to commission a portrait that reveals you to be both.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (FEVMW)

27 Nice hat.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (ZdaMQ)

28 A little hatchetfaced, but a ginger and I'm sure she put out.

Posted by: Lowered Expectations at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (oftw2)

29 Does she have lower braces?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

30 velour

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (R11M+)

31 LOL. She looks like she just smelled something bad.
Posted by: Tuna

Sorry. I had Mexican last night.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (hS7lz)

32 It does look like she has something in her mouth, and it looks silvery. Or maybe grayish, and it's her tongue. Which does not augur well for her health.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

33 she smelt it
she dealt it

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

34 Looks like Nancy Pelosi's mother after a bender. Would not hang.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (abIsI)

35 That's one ugly face.

Posted by: dantesed at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)

36 Maybe she married a Gaylord?

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (W7XSX)

37 I really want to know the story behind this portrait.

Posted by: Bert G at December 11, 2025 09:34 AM (VARTN)

38 She's repulsed by you.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)

39 Does she know there's a gorilla lurking behind her?

Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 09:34 AM (Y1sOo)

40 Lady Ottoline Morrell

*********

Title checks out. Hat loooks like a mushrooom.

Posted by: muldoon at December 11, 2025 09:34 AM (/iMjX)

41 Rosa DeLauro, the early years.
Wouldn't hang , this is one of those paintings in horror movies where the eyes follow you.
Thx anyway CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:34 AM (D+mpw)

42 That's one ugly face.

And the really amazing thing is that this is her O face.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2025 09:34 AM (Riz8t)

43 her crotch is a morel garden.

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:34 AM (R11M+)

44 Thank goodness this one has her clothes on...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 09:34 AM (VE6XX)

45 21 Well painted. I like the dress and the jewelry.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

lol! God bless you, AOS's little ray of sunshine!

Posted by: Auspex at December 11, 2025 09:35 AM (Y8DZL)

46 It looks like 19th century Sandra Bernhard.

Posted by: Bert G at December 11, 2025 09:35 AM (VARTN)

47 Ottoline? Her dad had a hell of an ego.

Posted by: huerfano at December 11, 2025 09:35 AM (98kQX)

48 This woman looks thirsty and I have the electrolytes to rehydrate her.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 09:35 AM (1zOXE)

49 Ugly.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 11, 2025 09:35 AM (Kt19C)

50 She should have finished the cookie before she posed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 09:35 AM (0RiMX)

51 Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1990
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

.... what now? How the hell did that play out?

"Oi, you owe us 70,000 quid, m8, pay up."

"Oh yeah? Well whaddya think of THIS!"

"NYAAA! Good heavens! Put that away, man! Fine, you don't owe us anything, just make it stop!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 09:35 AM (Vq1pX)

52 Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (ZdaMQ)

Hi, Piper! You haven't been around much this week. Hope you're doing well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

53 That hat and hair looks like something upper-class women would have worn to the horse races at Epsom or Ascot. See the scene in My Fair Lady where Eliza first displays her new manners and accent, and everybody, including the Hon. Freddy (Jeremy Brett), falls for it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

54 Where is her broomstick?

Posted by: Case at December 11, 2025 09:36 AM (G1OIb)

55 Hemorrhoid's flaring up lady?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 09:36 AM (abIsI)

56 50 it's a gobstopper.

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:36 AM (R11M+)

57 Charing Cross Road 2, St. Martin's Place, London, GB WC2H 0HE
Phone
+44 20 7306 0055

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

58 Trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

No bueno.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 11, 2025 09:37 AM (aZm/F)

59 She's repulsed by you.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025

***
It's mutual

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:37 AM (wzUl9)

60 Two Bagger

Posted by: Boswell at December 11, 2025 09:37 AM (NTVPI)

61 Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-193

was an important patron and society hostess. After travelling widely as a young woman, in 1902 Ottoline married Philip Morrell, a solicitor and later Liberal Member of Parliament. She established herself as a literary and political hostess at their home in Bloomsbury and from 1915 at Garsington Manor, their home near Oxford. Her social gatherings provided a forum for intellectual interaction and opportunities for writers and artists to meet patrons. Visitors to Garsington included Lytton Strachey, Henry Lamb, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, and Augustus John. She met John around 1907 and after having a brief love affair, they became good friends and she helped him gain commissions and connections. From Christine Isabell Oaklander

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:37 AM (ZdaMQ)

62 there is a little face peering out of her moufuss.

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (R11M+)

63 Interesting quote from artist's granddaughter

"John's granddaughter Rebecca John, the leading authority on her grandfather, said in 2024, while praising his earlier work, that "most [paintings since the 1930s] should have been burned. My grandfather went down the drain from the 1930s onwards, drank too much, lost his judgment, and took every opportunity to earn money from portraits of society ladies and the wives of notable men".

Posted by: Tuna at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

64 A courtroom sketch of the dead man's widow and primary suspect maybe?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (0RiMX)

65 You have to admit that the art certainly elicits an emotional response in the viewer. Nobody is going to be indifferent to it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

66 Ugly tree fell on her.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (gbOdA)

67 Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha, The Early Years.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (kgE5c)

68 37 I really want to know the story behind this portrait.
Posted by: Bert G at December 11, 2025 09:34 AM (VARTN)

A strong stomach...

Posted by: Boswell at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (NTVPI)

69 That jaw is certainly masculine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

70 Not a dead ringer, possible relative. YouTube McEnroe vs spectator

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (/6GbT)

71 Not very flattering. I doubt the artist got a tip...or even paid.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 11, 2025 09:39 AM (WPL6O)

72 Hi Bulg! It’s the holidays so busy at work with our 12 days of Christmas sale.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:39 AM (ZdaMQ)

73 Nice hat.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (ZdaMQ)

LOL

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2025 09:39 AM (wVcYX)

74 She was quite the thing in society circles! Multiple love affair, open marriage, and an inspiration for Lawrence's Lady Chatterley.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (g47mK)

75 Hi Bulg! It’s the holidays so busy at work with our 12 days of Christmas sale.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:39 AM

Are you piping right now?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

76 D O N T F O R G E T T O P A I N T Y O U R O T T O L I N E

Posted by: Ralphie's Decoder Ring at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (0RiMX)

77 So, what's the morell of this painting?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

78 17 I hope she was one of those (exceedingly rare) ladies with a sweet soul inside that exterior.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

How is it exceedingly rare for women to have a sweet soul?

So. She’s ugly. So am I.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (mT+6a)

79 Now that I look closely, I see her hair is a dark red, barely visible against the black hat. This changes my reaction a tiny tiny bit. I can imagine that, if the hair color is real, that in her youth she might actually have been -- well, not attractive exactly, but hauntingly memorable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

80 Cruella with a bad hat.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (cYBz/)

81 She was John's fag hag?

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (W7XSX)

82 77 fungus among us

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:41 AM (R11M+)

83 Ottoline got around.

Posted by: huerfano at December 11, 2025 09:41 AM (98kQX)

84
Before all y'all decide to get sporty in your comments here, do make sure to note that it is but a short trip from "Ottoline" to Ottoman".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 09:41 AM (xG4kz)

85
Disconjugate Gaze - a limerick

Lady Ottoline Morrell. I presume
Ooh la la! Hubba Hubba! Va Va Voom!
Her portrait is creepy
The one eye is weepy
While the other follows me 'round the room

Posted by: muldoon at December 11, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

86 The Society Hostess with the mostest, if you know what I mean, wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say no more....

Posted by: Monty Python Party Sketch at December 11, 2025 09:41 AM (oftw2)

87 The ugly chicks only hope that they were "hauntingly memorable."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 09:42 AM (0RiMX)

88 I hope she was one of those (exceedingly rare) ladies with a sweet soul inside that exterior.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

How is it exceedingly rare for women to have a sweet soul?

So. She’s ugly. So am I.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025

***
Nurse, I only meant that, if she had been on the receiving end of jokes and rebuffs when young, she might well have turned bitter and revengeful.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

89 Looks like Dee Snider.

Posted by: Twisted Sister at December 11, 2025 09:42 AM (Pjp4y)

90 Yesterday: Long fingers
Today: Long face

Neigh!

Posted by: Tom Robbins at December 11, 2025 09:43 AM (NuV6c)

91 I bet she knew what she was doing.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 09:43 AM (fexSQ)

92 She almost looks like the Mayor's wife from 'The Music Man'.

Posted by: dantesed at December 11, 2025 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

93 Maybe she married a Gaylord?
Posted by: no one

He was just feminine.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:43 AM (hS7lz)

94 In a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story, the ugliest man he ever met was very generous to the poor and the most beautiful woman he ever met killed her children for the life insurance.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

She may have charming and laughed out loud at the portrait.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 09:43 AM (W7XSX)

95 Bunch of layabout parasites.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 09:43 AM (Vq1pX)

96 Chewing gum. And she is just about to spit it out, into a kleenex of course.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 09:44 AM (W7XSX)

97 Yesterday: Long fingers
Today: Long face

Tomorrow...

Posted by: John Holmes at December 11, 2025 09:44 AM (hS7lz)

98 She’s ugly. So am I.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (mT+6a)

How DARE you.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 09:44 AM (fexSQ)

99 hunnert

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:44 AM (R11M+)

100 Women have souls?

Posted by: President, He-Man Woman-Haters Club at December 11, 2025 09:44 AM (/Xes5)

101 Chewing gum. And she is just about to spit it out, into a kleenex of course.
Posted by: no one

I'll bet she has spitting down to an art form.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:44 AM (hS7lz)

102
Cruella De Vil
Cruella De Vil
If she doesn't scare you
No evil thing will
To see her is to take a sudden chill
Cruella, Cruella
She's like a spider waiting for the kill
Look out for Cruella De Vil

At first you think Cruella is a devil
But after time has worn away the shock
You come to realize
You've seen her kind of eyes
Watching you from underneath a rock

This vampire bat, this inhuman beast
She ought to be locked up and never released
The world was such a wholesome place until
Cruella, Cruella De Vil

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 09:44 AM (enCV9)

103 Yeccch!

Posted by: Margaret Hamilton at December 11, 2025 09:45 AM (0RiMX)

104 hondo

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:45 AM (R11M+)

105 She’s ugly. So am I.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM

Objection!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 11, 2025 09:45 AM (kgE5c)

106 I gift you... The Memes of Thursday!

https://tinyurl.com/6a5yc6sc+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 09:45 AM (ExV1e)

107 >>My grandfather went down the drain from the 1930s onwards, drank too much, lost his judgment, and took every opportunity to earn money from portraits of society ladies and the wives of notable men".

Ingrate. At least he produced something other than biting commentary about dead relatives who could not defend themselves!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2025 09:45 AM (NuV6c)

108 “I need to speak with your manager immediately!”

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at December 11, 2025 09:45 AM (p0/TZ)

109 She’s ugly. So am I.

Posted by: nurse ratched

Throws bullshit flag. 30 yard penalty and loss of all downs.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:45 AM (hS7lz)

110 Come on... every guy commenting has seen this exact expression from a woman at least once.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 09:46 AM (NwnyJ)

111 In a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story, the ugliest man he ever met was very generous to the poor and the most beautiful woman he ever met killed her children for the life insurance.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

She may have charming and laughed out loud at the portrait.
Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025

***
True. In life she might have been one of those people who, in repose, are exceedingly unattractive . . . and yet, when they speak and laugh and move among people, have an irresistible personality that makes others forget about the exterior.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:46 AM (wzUl9)

112 She almost looks like the Mayor's wife from 'The Music Man'.
Posted by: dantesed

Hermione Gingold was way better looking than this chick.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

113 Time heals all things, but is a horrible beautician.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 09:46 AM (W7XSX)

114 70 Not a dead ringer, possible relative. YouTube McEnroe vs spectator
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 11, 2025 09:38 AM (/6GbT)

Amusingly obscure and accurate reference.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 11, 2025 09:46 AM (VnsnO)

115 A blue-eyed redhead dame.

They have ... needs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2025 09:46 AM (wVcYX)

116 111 pretty is as pretty does.

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 09:47 AM (R11M+)

117 The Lady has a Sneer.

Would not hang.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 11, 2025 09:47 AM (lL6v/)

118 Come on... every guy commenting has seen this exact expression from a woman at least once.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Usually when I drop trou...

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:47 AM (hS7lz)

119 A blue-eyed redhead dame.

They have ... needs.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2025

***
Don't I know it.

This woman's eyes have a *tinge* of blue, but seem darker than that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

120 The fee to join the He-Man Woman Hater's Club on the Little Rascals was 44 cents. Things were going quite well, but then Darla Hood came along and ruined it.

Posted by: Darla Was No Hatchetface at December 11, 2025 09:48 AM (oftw2)

121 There has always been Karen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 09:48 AM (A0sqA)

122 Her Salon welcomed every Free Thinker and Fabian Socialist.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 09:48 AM (W7XSX)

123 Is this Gomez Addams' grandmother? The Wiki page has a sketch he used used for an engraving. It is excellent. This painting is a caricature unless it's accurate, in which case I feel sorry for the woman.

Posted by: JTB at December 11, 2025 09:49 AM (yTvNw)

124
Her social gatherings provided a forum for intellectual interaction and opportunities for writers and artists to meet patrons.

Oh. THOSE kind of people. You know, the ones that speak in Sorkinesque turns of phrases and only obliquely reference what they are really trying to say because they are so dreadfully clever, don't you know?

Swells. The ones who would have us tug our forelocks in respect to them if they could enact such rules.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 09:49 AM (xG4kz)

125 > Come on... every guy commenting has seen this exact expression from a woman at least once.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Usually when I drop trou...
Posted by: rickb223
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Right after that goat choking fart.

You all know the kind... you have to lift a cheek so the backpressure doesn't pop and eardrum.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 09:49 AM (NwnyJ)

126 would not hang

Posted by: Gref at December 11, 2025 09:51 AM (5rh/l)

127 I'll bet she has spitting down to an art form.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:44 AM (hS7lz)

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[Trivia you can't use, but maybe there's a limerick in there somwhere:]

"Later Jewish traditions -- such as those found in the Talmud -- began to associate saliva with healing properties, particularly for eye diseases, though this is not attested to in the Old Testament itself.

The use of spittle in healing was more common in later Jewish writings and in Greco-Roman culture, where it was believed to have medicinal value."

"Spittle" would be a good name for a rapper ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 09:51 AM (enCV9)

128 Where's the key to wind up the teeth?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 09:51 AM (LmIVp)

129 Poison Ivy Rorschach, guitarist for The Cramps, had a great psychobilly sneer, but was/is a beautiful redhead.

Posted by: Dames, Booze, Chains, and Boots at December 11, 2025 09:51 AM (oftw2)

130 Lady Ottoline judges you.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: GO ARMY BEAT NAVY at December 11, 2025 09:52 AM (ZxPkt)

131 Scold in painting looks positively Hapsburgian

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 09:52 AM (Dv3i1)

132 "Later Jewish traditions -- such as those found in the Talmud -- began to associate saliva with healing properties, particularly for eye diseases, though this is not attested to in the Old Testament itself.

The use of spittle in healing was more common in later Jewish writings and in Greco-Roman culture, where it was believed to have medicinal value."

Jesus used his spittle to heal a blind man.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

133 Needless to say, no hang
don't want this bitter old crone looking at me all the time

Posted by: Don Black. Message: GO ARMY BEAT NAVY at December 11, 2025 09:52 AM (ZxPkt)

134 Alternate title: "Dangers of Snus"

Posted by: Oglebay at December 11, 2025 09:53 AM (GPa4z)

135 "Spittle" would be a good name for a rapper ...
___

Spittin' out lyrics, homie I'll wet ya!

Posted by: Boston Irish Rapper at December 11, 2025 09:53 AM (Dv3i1)

136 You all know the kind... you have to lift a cheek so the backpressure doesn't pop and eardrum.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 09:49 AM (NwnyJ)

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With an assist from your right hand ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 09:54 AM (enCV9)

137 Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (g47mK)

75 Hi Bulg! It’s the holidays so busy at work with our 12 days of Christmas sale.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:39 AM

Are you piping right now?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 11, 2025 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

One of my instructors took all my morning classes for me so I don’t have to go in until 4p. I do have to remember to do payroll, though.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 09:54 AM (ZdaMQ)

138 Thank goodness she's not topless. I'd imagine her boobies are pale and sad.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 09:54 AM (1zOXE)

139
Scold in painting looks positively Hapsburgian
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Ain't that the truth?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 09:54 AM (xG4kz)

140
23 NPG

Lady Ottoline Morrell

by Augustus John
oil on canvas, 1919
27 1/8 in. x 20 1/8 in. (690 mm x 511 mm)
Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1990
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

1919. Perhaps affected by the war. The loss of many of the best men of her social class. Her disfiguring exposure to mustard gas during a visit to the front lines.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 09:55 AM (azNOR)

141
I have seen the spectre
She has been here, too

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 09:56 AM (xG4kz)

142 "Later Jewish traditions -- such as those found in the Talmud -- began to associate saliva with healing properties, particularly for eye diseases, though this is not attested to in the Old Testament itself.

The use of spittle in healing was more common in later Jewish writings and in Greco-Roman culture, where it was believed to have medicinal value."

Jesus used his spittle to heal a blind man.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

Mom spit is the universal dirty face cleaner.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 11, 2025 09:56 AM (wVcYX)

143 As it is winter, time for Lt Kije:

https://www.classicsforkids.com/podcast/ sergei-prokofiev-4-the-story-of-lt-kij/

[My autistic grandkid loves the famous sleigh ride.]

Fake person and he is always paid: just like our own.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 11, 2025 09:56 AM (lL6v/)

144 "I'd hit that blue dress."

/Bubba Clinton

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 09:57 AM (enCV9)

145 "Her disfiguring exposure to mustard gas during a visit to the front lines."

She earned the VC for saving a dozen men by stopping the shell with her face.

Posted by: PabloD at December 11, 2025 09:57 AM (GALGA)

146 You know WHO ELSE was exposed to mustard gas...

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

147 Mom spit is the universal dirty face cleaner.

Museum secret: "enzymatic cleaning ".

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 11, 2025 09:58 AM (Kt19C)

148 Mom spit is the universal dirty face cleaner.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Omg. How many times did I lick my thumb to wipe dried goop off my boy’s cheeks!!!

Sweet memories! Thank you for that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

149 The OG Hawk Tua Girl

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 09:59 AM (Vq1pX)

150
Colonel Mustard.
In the Parlor.
With the Candlestick.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 09:59 AM (xG4kz)

151 I do have to remember to do payroll, though.
Posted by: Piper

I was the number 1 commenter last week. I think I noted it on my timesheet.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

152 RBF, or RVF (Resting Villain Face)?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 11, 2025 10:00 AM (JCZqz)

153 Thank goodness she's not topless. I'd imagine her boobies are pale and sad.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 09:54 AM (1zOXE)

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Sagacious even?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:00 AM (enCV9)

154 Mom spit is the universal dirty face cleaner.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Our foremothers learned it from cats.

Posted by: Mr. Felix at December 11, 2025 10:01 AM (oftw2)

155
Think of the missed opportunity to stage the greatest ever Resting Bitch Face Off between her and Big Mike!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 10:01 AM (xG4kz)

156 She’s ugly. So am I.

Posted by: nurse ratched

The second part of what she just said is bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

157 All 'Ettes are knockouts. It's in the Bylaws.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

158 Thank goodness she's not topless. I'd imagine her boobies are pale and sad.

Saggy Boobs Rule!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at December 11, 2025 10:03 AM (FGMmt)

159 157 All 'Ettes are knockouts. It's in the Bylaws.
Posted by: Bulg

I'm sold!

Posted by: Stevie Wonder at December 11, 2025 10:04 AM (oftw2)

160 The OG Hawk Tua Girl
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 09:59 AM (Vq1pX)

The hawk tua girl was actually kinda hot. The image in the painting, not so much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

161 Pictured: Self-perceived Portrait of Nobel Laureate Machado who despite all the resolute storm an fury, still couldn't flip and unspillable DQ shake. and the ppv attempts at doing so will be as big a fail as her attempt to distract from the presents under the JeffMass tree -- was a bad trade from the start.

forWAR'd !!!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 11, 2025 10:05 AM (ol/+M)

162 I bet no one was washing their dick in her sink.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 10:05 AM (Vq1pX)

163 Lady Ottoline Morrell

What a hottie. Surprised Joe Mannix hasn't featured her!

Posted by: The Hapsburgs at December 11, 2025 10:05 AM (0ZmKh)

164 You know WHO ELSE was exposed to mustard gas...

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

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Hitler's initial title for Mein Kampf:

"Parable of The Mustard Gas."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:05 AM (enCV9)

165 You can’t ever hate the media enough.

MSM blaring that weekly unemployment claims soared last week.

Uhm yeah it was the week after Thanksgiving. It’s how it works every fucking year. Because few companies don’t do layoffs that week. Or if they do, employees will wait until the next week to file.so there’s always a big drop TG week followed by a surge the week after.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 11, 2025 10:05 AM (9iyS+)

166 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Sees painting. Morrell. If the dog food empire Morrells?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 10:07 AM (2WIwB)

167 oof

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 11, 2025 10:07 AM (36PRH)

168 Right after that goat choking fart.

You all know the kind... you have to lift a cheek so the backpressure doesn't pop and eardrum.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Fist bump

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 10:07 AM (hS7lz)

169 I hope she was one of those (exceedingly rare) ladies with a sweet soul inside that exterior.
>>>>>>Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

Your shallowness is rivalled only by your misogyny.

Posted by: Same Old at December 11, 2025 10:08 AM (YCGTW)

170 Thank goodness she's not topless. I'd imagine her boobies are pale and sad.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 09:54 AM (1zOXE)

=====

Aren't all boobies pale, unless you're a darker-skinned lass or a nude sunbather?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 11, 2025 10:08 AM (r+pQK)

171 And your little dog, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 10:08 AM (Wg6v7)

172 120 wonderful honeymoon?

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 10:08 AM (R11M+)

173 MSM blaring that weekly unemployment claims soared last week.

Totally. Y'all should start pressuring the Fed to lower interest rates, right?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 11, 2025 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

174 You know WHO ELSE was exposed to mustard gas...

Posted by: Bulg

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Championship fans?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 10:09 AM (hS7lz)

175 Lady Ottoline Morrell! Yowser! She looks like she is an inbred Hapsburg.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 11, 2025 10:09 AM (uv8gn)

176 Your shallowness is rivalled only by your misogyny.
Posted by: Same Old

It's not much, but it's honest work.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 10:10 AM (hS7lz)

177 174 You know WHO ELSE was exposed to mustard gas...

Posted by: Bulg
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One of my grandmother's brothers was gassed. He spent the rest of his life in the Old Soldiers Home in NY City. Total lush.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 10:11 AM (Wg6v7)

178 She’s ugly. So am I.

Posted by: nurse ratched

The second part of what she just said is bullshit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

***
What Sponge said!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 10:11 AM (2WIwB)

179 Big fan of pale boobies here. Tanned hussies can go squeeze a breeze.

Posted by: Sam Melonhead, Attorney-at-Law at December 11, 2025 10:11 AM (oftw2)

180 She’s ugly. So am I.
Posted by: nurse ratched

The second part of what she just said is bullshit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

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Seconded!

[It was interesting growing up with extremely low self-esteem for reasons we won't get into -- but I always viewed myself, especially compared to others, as ugly and unattractive even though I was quite athletic and fit.

Anyway, looking back now on old photos (and some 8mm films) it's stunning how good-looking I was (and being on the wrong side of 60 now, how attractive youth is)! Weird having such a warped view of oneself ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:11 AM (enCV9)

181 an inbred Hapsburg.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

I'm reporting you to the Department of Redundancy Department.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

182 Alternate title:

"Who Farted?"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 10:12 AM (iJfKG)

183 94 In a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story, the ugliest man he ever met was very generous to the poor and the most beautiful woman he ever met killed her children for the life insurance.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

She may have charming and laughed out loud at the portrait.
Posted by: no one
=======
True beauty comes from within, not the outside wrappings of flesh. But to maintain that inner beauty, it takes more hard work on self improvement than does a mere outer beauty contracted out to plastic surgeons and beauty products.

It also requires inner happiness and a contentment in who you really are and not seeking external validation.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:13 AM (WDjG6)

184 I hope she was one of those (exceedingly rare) ladies with a sweet soul inside that exterior.
>>>>>>Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025
*
Your shallowness is rivalled only by your misogyny.
Posted by: Same Old at December 11, 2025

***
I'd thank you, SO, but what I meant was it seems rare for someone less than attractive -- male or female -- to have a sweet soul and outlook on life. The all-too-frequent human response to rebuffs from others when young is to grow up sour, bitter, and revengeful. That's all. Some people manage to transcend that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:13 AM (wzUl9)

185 "You said you knew where the man in the boat is."

Posted by: Lady Ottoline Morrell at December 11, 2025 10:13 AM (0sNs1)

186 One of my grandmother's brothers was gassed. He spent the rest of his life in the Old Soldiers Home in NY City. Total lush.
Posted by: Pudinhead

It's been speculated that the reason the Krauts never used chemical weapons in WWII was because Hitler, having been gassed himself, was scared to death of those weapons. They were too much even for him.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

187 Doesn't even qualify as a "handsome" woman. Yikes.
Would not hang. Unless, maybe, I had a bedroom where the in-laws stayed. Maybe.

Posted by: GWB at December 11, 2025 10:14 AM (RFyO4)

188 Otto huh? Who names their kid Otto?

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 10:14 AM (vFG9F)

189 *
Your shallowness is rivalled only by your misogyny.
Posted by: Same Old at December 11, 2025

Of all our favorite misogynists, Wolf isn’t one. He just worded this poorly, it happens. He is a good guy, we aren’t all master wordsmiths all the time.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:15 AM (OoFl2)

190 The hawk tua girl was actually kinda hot. The image in the painting, not so much.
Posted by: Sponge
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And is facing criminal charges and civil lawsuits regarding the collapse of her crypto bullshit.

So ugly inside apparently.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:15 AM (WDjG6)

191 She has an underbite, and is trying to smile.

Unless the artist despised her, he wouldn't have drawn her mouth like that, so it must be a physical deformity, for her to have paid him for this portrait.

Posted by: ju at December 11, 2025 10:15 AM (EgpoY)

192 >Your shallowness is rivalled only by your misogyny.

One look at Hillary's WH x/rated, prophalactic ornamented XMAS tree will forever tarnish your world-view, imaging what the LIBs have planned for the JeffMass tree.

Counterpoint? leak the phone-logs of Bill Clinton's 72hrs of phone sex to Lewinsky, and place him at the location of where ole Jeff spread his version of xmas cheer -- Bill didn't go to the island, the island came to him -- it's why Bill Clinton's lifesized portrait wearing a blue dress was so prominently a prized possession on the fantasy island...

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 11, 2025 10:15 AM (nG5XJ)

193 Radio played a clip of a 20something chick have a major tear laden meltdown because some guy walked past her in the grocery aisle and ripped one off. She will.now need years of therapy according to her

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 10:16 AM (sDNVV)

194 Some people manage to transcend that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
======
It appears your critic failed that test.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6)

195 >>>Aren't all boobies pale, unless you're a darker-skinned lass or a nude sunbather?

Posted by: Jordan61

Whether they're tanned naturally or by toxic chemicals, it shows you have the moxie to be a social influencer in this age.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 10:16 AM (1zOXE)

196 The all-too-frequent human response to rebuffs from others when young is to grow up sour, bitter, and revengeful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

One of my favorite movie lines is from Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera, right after Christine unmasks him:

"Feast your eyes, glut your soul, on my accursed ugliness!"

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

197 She’s ugly. So am I.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Oh my goodness. This is ridiculous. You are gorgeous, we all know it. I hope you were being flip, because you should know it, too.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:17 AM (OoFl2)

198 183
True beauty comes from within, not the outside wrappings of flesh. But to maintain that inner beauty, it takes more hard work on self improvement than does a mere outer beauty contracted out to plastic surgeons and beauty products.

It also requires inner happiness and a contentment in who you really are and not seeking external validation.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:13 AM (WDjG6)
________
That sounds like someone trying to get laid.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 11, 2025 10:17 AM (s0JqF)

199 Alternate title:

"Lady Ottoline Morrell Gives the Side-Eye To Jumped Up Mountebank, Neville Chamberlain"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 10:17 AM (iJfKG)

200 >Otto huh? Who names their kid Otto?
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Otto's parents

Posted by: Don Black. Message: GO ARMY BEAT NAVY at December 11, 2025 10:18 AM (ZxPkt)

201 I believe it was Col. Kurt Schlichter who first asked the hypothetical question (paraphrasing):

Would Trump have the moral and legal authority to blow boats out of the water in the Caribbean if narco-terrorists were transporting mustard gas here for the purpose of killing tens if not hundreds of thousands of Americans (which of course they're doing with fentanyl and opioids in general)?

And would The Anti-American Death Cult Pro-Foreign and Domestic-Terrorist Left still oppose him doing so? [/rhetorical as we all know the answer.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:18 AM (enCV9)

202 Right after that goat choking fart.

You all know the kind... you have to lift a cheek so the backpressure doesn't pop and eardrum.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 09:49 AM

Science has recently proven that women's smell worse than men's.

There is, however a positive result from that. The main compound that provides the mephitic component, hydrogen disulphide, within the body provides cerebral benefits, making women smarter than men.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 11, 2025 10:18 AM (0sNs1)

203 Otto huh? Who names their kid Otto?

Mr. and Mrs. Penn.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

204 Utah’s “Republican” Governor Cox says that he would vote for Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor Shapiro for President.

Nice.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 10:19 AM (abIsI)

205 Ye gads, I hope poor Lady Ottoline didn't pay good money for that. I'd have shot the artist on the spot.

Posted by: Persnickety at December 11, 2025 10:19 AM (jJdyX)

206 >But to maintain that inner beauty, it takes more hard work on self improvement than does a mere outer beauty contracted out to plastic surgeons and beauty products.
----

Ja ja ja
CAN SHE MAKE SANDWICH?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: GO ARMY BEAT NAVY at December 11, 2025 10:19 AM (ZxPkt)

207 198 183 True beauty comes from within, not the outside wrappings of flesh

Hard to imagine the thanksgiving turkey not believing that up until the last moments.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 11, 2025 10:19 AM (4O5fZ)

208 I delighted millions as a comedian and as an artist. Lived to 95, no regrets. And I was no Gene Tierney.

Posted by: Zombie Phyllis Diller at December 11, 2025 10:19 AM (oftw2)

209 There is, however a positive result from that. The main compound that provides the mephitic component, hydrogen disulphide, within the body provides cerebral benefits, making women smarter than men.
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So invest in perfume?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 10:20 AM (Wg6v7)

210 Radio played a clip of a 20something chick have a major tear laden meltdown because some guy walked past her in the grocery aisle and ripped one off. She will.now need years of therapy according to her
Posted by: Ben Had

I saw a clip on Facebook Reels (Instagram) where a guy would walk around by people and squeeze a rubber thingy and it would sound like a wet lumpy one and another guy would get their reactions on camera.

No one needed therapy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 10:20 AM (hS7lz)

211
186

It's been speculated that the reason the Krauts never used chemical weapons in WWII was because Hitler, having been gassed himself, was scared to death of those weapons. They were too much even for him.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:13 AM

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Also, there was certain Allied retaliation in kind. They had mustard gas stockpiles in every theater of the war. German nerve gas was orders of magnitude more poisonous, but the Allies had orders of magnitude more mustard gas. Early version of mutually assured destruction.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 10:21 AM (azNOR)

212 198 shirley valentine

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 10:21 AM (R11M+)

213 That sounds like someone trying to get laid.
Posted by: Eeyore
======
Nope, inner beauty doesn't fade with time, outer beauty becomes wretched and cold without that critical inner fire. Goes for men and women btw.

And the Lord is who really gives us that inner joy and peace as a gift if we let him.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:21 AM (WDjG6)

214 Your shallowness is rivalled only by your misogyny.
Posted by: Same Old at December 11, 2025

Of all our favorite misogynists, Wolf isn’t one. He just worded this poorly, it happens. He is a good guy, we aren’t all master wordsmiths all the time.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025

***
Thank you kindly, Piper!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:21 AM (wzUl9)

215 Wolfus, how is the move to Indiana coming along?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

216 203 that's a good tshirt, o'blammo's image with the words otto penn under.

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 10:22 AM (R11M+)

217 Utah’s “Republican” Governor Cox says that he would vote for Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor Shapiro for President.

==

Seeing and hearing him after Kirk's murder, this does not surprise me one bit.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 10:23 AM (g47mK)

218 Alternate title:

"Lady Ottoline Morrell Gives the Side-Eye To Jumped Up Mountebank, Neville Chamberlain"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 10:17 AM (iJfKG)

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This followed a meeting between the two where Chamberlain famously declared "That is No Piece of Ass for Our Time!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:23 AM (enCV9)

219 So invest in perfume?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 10:20 AM

Or eggs or broccoli. Both are high in sulfur, and every molecule of hydrogen disulphide requires two atoms of sulfur.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 11, 2025 10:23 AM (0sNs1)

220 Otto huh? Who names their kid Otto?

Mr. and Mrs. Bismark

Posted by: dantesed at December 11, 2025 10:23 AM (Oy/m2)

221 I delighted millions as a comedian and as an artist. Lived to 95, no regrets. And I was no Gene Tierney.
Posted by: Zombie Phyllis Diller at December 11, 2025

***
And helped to pioneer women as comics. Before you, there were very few. I can't even think of any right now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:23 AM (wzUl9)

222 Otto huh? Who names their kid Otto?

Mr. and Mrs. Bismark
Posted by: dantesed at December 11, 2025

***
Mr. and Mrs. Palindrome

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:24 AM (wzUl9)

223 When I finally relented and gave up my flip phone for a smartphone the first thing my boys did was install the”fart app.”

Farts are always funny.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 10:24 AM (tQW7H)

224 Also, there was certain Allied retaliation in kind. They had mustard gas stockpiles in every theater of the war. German nerve gas was orders of magnitude more poisonous, but the Allies had orders of magnitude more mustard gas. Early version of mutually assured destruction.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

So it makes sense that that scenario would've been a bridge too far for Hitler, who had experienced mustard personally.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

225 we aren’t all master wordsmiths all the time.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:15 AM

Well, except for BEN ROETHLISBERGER and myself, of course.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at December 11, 2025 10:25 AM (0sNs1)

226 I saw a clip on Facebook Reels (Instagram) where a guy would walk around by people and squeeze a rubber thingy and it would sound like a wet lumpy one and another guy would get their reactions on camera.

No one needed therapy.
Posted by: rickb223
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Leslie Nielsen was famous for tricks like that on the set.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:25 AM (WDjG6)

227 Utah’s “Republican” Governor Cox says that he would vote for Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor Shapiro for President.

==

Seeing and hearing him after Kirk's murder, this does not surprise me one bit.

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 10:23 AM (g47mK)

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Utah is not sending their best.

And here I thought Arizona was the most schizophrenic state in the nation (but that's only because of massive election fraud which EVERYONE acknowledges and NOBODY will do anything about) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:25 AM (enCV9)

228 221 moms mabley

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 10:26 AM (R11M+)

229 Wolfus, how is the move to Indiana coming along?
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025\

***
I have an agent in Owensboro, KY, right across the river from Evansville, who is sending me house listings. Some are uninspiring, some are exciting. My plan is to start the process after the first of the year. Maybe that's not a good time to move north, but I'm not going to wait until March if I can help it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

230 Farts are always funny.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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A humbling reminder that we are all human regardless of what our wealth and social status is.

And in part why it and burping are considered vulgar by the upper crust. It reduces their self perceived status.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)

231 Entirely expected post at Twitchy showing MTG hanging out with Medea Benjamin and Code Pink. Grifter gotta grift

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:27 AM (D+mpw)

232 Is there an app that plays the James Bond lead in music on cell phones? Imma thinking this will make me irresistible to the ladies, even when it's my wife calling me about picking up some half and half.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 10:27 AM (Wg6v7)

233 I have an agent in Owensboro, KY, right across the river from Evansville, who is sending me house listings. Some are uninspiring, some are exciting. My plan is to start the process after the first of the year. Maybe that's not a good time to move north, but I'm not going to wait until March if I can help it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Good luck, you deserve to be happy.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)

234 The White House Press Secretary has an impressive figure

https://x.com/PressSec/status/
1999133545923486194

Posted by: Don Black. Message: GO ARMY BEAT NAVY at December 11, 2025 10:28 AM (ZxPkt)

235 I believe it's only been recently, like in the last decade or so that the US has started to destroy some of the older biological weapons currently stored here in the states. Workers are finding out just how unstable they've become. It's a lengthy and very dangerous process.

Some are/were stored here in KY.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 10:28 AM (NwnyJ)

236 Gotta be Endora's geat grammy. sheesh...ugggoooo...

Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber at December 11, 2025 10:28 AM (pcnhy)

237 94 In a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story, the ugliest man he ever met was very generous to the poor and the most beautiful woman he ever met killed her children for the life insurance.
Posted by: no one

There are also several victims of vitriol throwing...just like uncovered women in London are subject to today!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 11, 2025 10:28 AM (JCZqz)

238 Dude looks like a lady

Posted by: Aerosmith at December 11, 2025 10:29 AM (sKqQm)

239 Farts are always funny.
Posted by: nurse ratched

One of the cobs, I think it was Weird Dave on an ONT, posted a text exchange between a deaf kid and his teacher. The deaf kid had let out a fart in class and then wondered why all the other kids were looking at him, and the teacher had to explain to him that hearing people can hear farts. It was a pretty funny exchange.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

240 My goodness it is WET this morning.

Been raining for the last several days. Everyrhing is drenched.

So thankful not to be living in the basement anymore.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 10:29 AM (tQW7H)

241 Women are smarter than men.

Even in math?

Posted by: Case at December 11, 2025 10:29 AM (G1OIb)

242 True beauty comes from within, not the outside wrappings of flesh. But to maintain that inner beauty, it takes more hard work on self improvement than does a mere outer beauty contracted out to plastic surgeons and beauty products.

It also requires inner happiness and a contentment in who you really are and not seeking external validation.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:13 AM (WDjG6)

Nah, as my Grandmother told my Mom and Sisters,

"Beauty is pain."

She worked out for roughly an hour almost every day of her life. Mostly, on an incline board to help maintain her figure.

It requires a lot of physical and mental discipline to achieve and maintain beauty as you get older.

She wasn't trying to "stay young". She was trying to be at her best throughout her life.

I like that attitude a lot.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 10:29 AM (iJfKG)

243 Not at all flattering.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:29 AM (rQwsY)

244 "And in part why it and burping are considered vulgar by the upper crust. It reduces their self perceived status."

So, I married a gassy woman.

Potty Humor is well-established in our home. lol

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 11, 2025 10:29 AM (6qf1m)

245 I have an agent in Owensboro, KY, right across the river from Evansville, who is sending me house listings. Some are uninspiring, some are exciting. My plan is to start the process after the first of the year. Maybe that's not a good time to move north, but I'm not going to wait until March if I can help it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Good luck, you deserve to be happy.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025

***
I dread the effort that will be involved. I haven't moved since 2001. But I've used up enough time since my retirement with financial arrangements and then my. minor surgery this summer. I gotta get rolling.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:29 AM (wzUl9)

246
Farts are always funny.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 10:24 AM (tQW7H)

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at December 11, 2025 10:30 AM (rQwsY)

247 >>>Or eggs or broccoli. Both are high in sulfur, and every molecule of hydrogen disulphide requires two atoms of sulfur.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher

>I'll have a broccoli omelette and a cup of French roast. Chop-chop, or I'll find a way to endear your mother.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 10:30 AM (1zOXE)

248 231 Entirely expected post at Twitchy showing MTG hanging out with Medea Benjamin and Code Pink. Grifter gotta grift
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Watching politicians up close and from afar never surprise me in their degree of being self absorbed.

Same lesson as the Lord of the Rings, power turns a lot of people into monsters in human form if they do not have underlying character to counter the bad effects.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:30 AM (WDjG6)

249
219 So invest in perfume?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 10:20 AM

Or eggs or broccoli. Both are high in sulfur, and every molecule of hydrogen disulphide requires two atoms of sulfur.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 11, 2025 10:23 AM (0sNs1)

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1. Hydrogen sulfide is H2S (two hydrogens).
2. The main stink compound is skatole (3-methyl indole).

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 10:30 AM (azNOR)

250 🎶Cruella De Ville
Cruella De Ville
If she doesn't scare you
No evil thing will🎵

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:31 AM (rk+24)

251 Potty Humor is well-established in our home. lol
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 11, 2025 10:29 AM (6qf1m)

There’s nothing to do in Moscow but eat, sleep and shit.

Posted by: Mao at December 11, 2025 10:31 AM (rQwsY)

252 I dread the effort that will be involved. I haven't moved since 2001. But I've used up enough time since my retirement with financial arrangements and then my. minor surgery this summer. I gotta get rolling.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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May your quest bring you joy soon. Life is too long to live in a place where you are miserable.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)

253 Gotta be Endora's geat grammy. sheesh...ugggoooo...

Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber

Agnes Moorehead was actually attractive, an odd kind of way.

I mean, she was no Liz Montgomery. But she wasn't ugly, either.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

254 It's cool and sunny today. For a while I thought of hopping in the car and driving out for a coffee. But I have that here. And I'm planning to run out to the 'burbs this evening for my pipe club meeting, so there's no real reason to go out now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:32 AM (wzUl9)

255 Gotta go. Doc appointment far away.

Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:32 AM (WDjG6)

256 Same lesson as the Lord of the Rings, power turns a lot of people into monsters in human form if they do not have underlying character to counter the bad effects.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:30 AM (WDjG6)

You shouldn’t read too much.

Posted by: Mao at December 11, 2025 10:32 AM (rQwsY)

257 "Who farted!?" …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 11, 2025 10:33 AM (ayRl+)

258 And I'm planning to run out to the 'burbs this evening for my pipe club meeting, so there's no real reason to go out now.
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Tell me you're not gay.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 11, 2025 10:33 AM (Wg6v7)

259 Pic looks like that last Spanish Habsburg II in drag.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 10:33 AM (XvL8K)

260 @248 whig, definitely. Populist movements tend to attract such people as well. Nothing against Trump and MAGA itself, but it has churned up several of these clowns

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:33 AM (D+mpw)

261 Utah is not sending their best.

Mormons are not sending their best. A lot of it members seem to have become ... markedly less conservative since somewhere during the Obama admin and Trump's first election. I don't know what's going on inside that church. But like a lot of others, it doesn't seem to be rising to the occasion lately.

Posted by: Red Latter Day at December 11, 2025 10:33 AM (I984p)

262 Same lesson as the Lord of the Rings, power turns a lot of people into monsters in human form if they do not have underlying character to counter the bad effects.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:30 AM (WDjG6)

And even if they have the underlying character, temptation can corrode even that.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:33 AM (rQwsY)

263 257 "Who farted!?" …
Posted by: Dr_No at December 11, 2025 10:33 AM (ayRl+)

Someone who took my advice.

Posted by: Mao at December 11, 2025 10:34 AM (rQwsY)

264 The White House Press Secretary has an impressive figure

https://x.com/PressSec/status/
1999133545923486194
Posted by: Don Black. Message

Did you see the bikini pic of her that someone posted here last week? Yowza!

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

265 Same lesson as the Lord of the Rings, power turns a lot of people into monsters in human form if they do not have underlying character to counter the bad effects.

The scenes/text with Galadriel and Gandalf considering taking the ring are some of the most important items in the whole books

Posted by: Aerosmith at December 11, 2025 10:34 AM (sKqQm)

266 Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:25 AM (WDjG6)

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@whig

I belatedly saw your comment yesterday about having had "perfect pitch" (very cool!) prior to suffering from tinnitus (I now have and hate that) owing to Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) -- which I'd never heard of (and so sorry to hear).

Anyway, you're probably already aware -- but if not (or others are not): I have a good friend who was afflicted with awful psoriasis for a couple of years (I think he was being treated with nitric oxide or something) and his skin would continuously crust up and bleed (he spend the night once and his bed sheets were all bloody).

He stumbled onto somebody (maybe Dr. Eric Berg?) who recommended 50,000 IU of Vitamin D daily -- and it quickly cured his psoriasis!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:35 AM (enCV9)

267 I'm excited for you Wolfus

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:36 AM (9ipOP)

268 Good news, everyone! Newsom has fixed California!

Governor Gavin Newsom
@CAgovernor
We spell D.O.G.E. — O.D.I.
Long before there was D.O.G.E., California was already streamlining government to be more efficient, responsive, and accountable.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

269
Say no more!

In 1912, Lady Ottoline was Vice President of The Eugenics Society, alongside writer and sexologist Henry Havelock Ellis, while Major Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin, was President.

The company one keeps ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

270 Did you see the bikini pic of her that someone posted here last week? Yowza!
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)
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She's naturally attractive but on top of that she clearly works hard in the gym and eats right. Discipline rarely seen in this day and age.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 10:37 AM (3BwY8)

271 Apparently I was late with the Cruella reference.

Figures...

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:37 AM (rk+24)

272 This why they have hijabs.

Posted by: Diane at December 11, 2025 10:38 AM (ENCZp)

273 268 Good news, everyone! Newsom has fixed California!

Governor Gavin Newsom
@CAgovernor
We spell D.O.G.E. — O.D.I.
Long before there was D.O.G.E., California was already streamlining government to be more efficient, responsive, and accountable.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl

Just ask the residents of Pacific Palisades.

Posted by: liarsayswhat? at December 11, 2025 10:38 AM (I984p)

274 Long before there was D.O.G.E., California was already streamlining government to be more efficient, responsive, and accountable.

Every dollar of his high speed rail project was stolen. There isn't a mile of track laid.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:39 AM (sKqQm)

275 Farts are always funny.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 10:24 AM (tQW7H)

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao

If you hold it in, it will travel up your spine to your brain.

That's where shitty ideas come from.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 10:39 AM (hS7lz)

276 "And even if they have the underlying character, temptation can corrode even that."

Indeed. Ring of Power. That's what power does. People can't handle it, so it needs to be treated like a dangerous chemical.

Of course, people don't want to acknowledge this. Just wield it as much and for as long as you can.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 11, 2025 10:39 AM (6qf1m)

277 Hand it to the painter
Goya painted the Spanish Royal family and made the ugly daughter facing backwards

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 10:39 AM (TjuhY)

278 270: tell me about it. My side hustle is a depressing display of the opposite.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:39 AM (rQwsY)

279 He stumbled onto somebody (maybe Dr. Eric Berg?) who recommended 50,000 IU of Vitamin D daily -- and it quickly cured his psoriasis!

At that level you are going to have some significant side effects

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:39 AM (sKqQm)

280 She's naturally attractive but on top of that she clearly works hard in the gym and eats right. Discipline rarely seen in this day and age.
Posted by: ballistic

She popped out a kid not too long ago, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

281 She makes Mrs. Harcourt Fenton Mudd look positively charming.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 10:40 AM (qBdHI)

282 Hell on wheels.

BREAKING: Democrats allowed this Illegal Alien into the U.S. @Uber hired him and now he’s been arrested for sexually assaulting a child in Miami during a ride she requested through the Uber Teens app.

ICE Hold now on Jose Miguel Perez-Molina—
a Democrat imported pedophile.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

283 If you hold it in, it will travel up your spine to your brain.

That's where shitty ideas come from.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 10:39 AM (hS7lz)

Go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors.

Posted by: Mao at December 11, 2025 10:40 AM (rQwsY)

284 Same lesson as the Lord of the Rings, power turns a lot of people into monsters in human form if they do not have underlying character to counter the bad effects.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:30 AM (WDjG6)

And even if they have the underlying character, temptation can corrode even that.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:33 AM (rQwsY)

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[Although wealth doesn't strictly equate to power:]

I believe the first person I heard (decades ago) make the following observation was Dennis Prager:

Wealth tends to amplify character; as in, if you are of good character, becoming wealthy tends to have the effect that you are able to do even more good; and conversely, if you are of bad character, you basically become George Soros ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:41 AM (enCV9)

285 Of course, people don't want to acknowledge this. Just wield it as much and for as long as you can.

One thing lefties sometime cycle on is, "Obviously this thing needs to be done for some good reason. Therefore we need POWER to do it - you see people are stupid and won't do they good thing if they are just asked to do it. But don't worry we are only doing this one good thing and then we'll give the power back"

And of course there is always one more "good thing" they just need to do...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:42 AM (sKqQm)

286 Who farted!?" …
Posted by: Dr_No at December

A craft Brewery I once frequented had a dark lager called Hoof Hearted.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 11, 2025 10:42 AM (8CIFn)

287 Wealth tends to amplify character; as in, if you are of good character, becoming wealthy tends to have the effect that you are able to do even more good;

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Should have noted this too in many ways is the story of Donald J. Trump.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:42 AM (enCV9)

288 Geeks + Gamers @GeeksGamersCom

Amanda Seyfried refuses to apologize for calling Charlie Kirk "hateful" after he was fatally shot in the neck during a TPUSA event event in Utah-

“I’m not fucking apologizing for that. I mean, for fuck’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course. Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualized — which is what people do, of course.” (via @Variety)

X: https://bit.ly/4946hEt

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 10:42 AM (P5BPp)

289 That's a man, baby!

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:42 AM (TN0g+)

290 BREAKING: Democrats allowed this Illegal Alien into the U.S. @Uber hired him and now he’s been arrested for sexually assaulting a child in Miami during a ride she requested through the Uber Teens app.

ICE Hold now on Jose Miguel Perez-Molina—
a Democrat imported pedophile.

She needs to be arrested. Let go of that SWEETHEART who is only here to make a better life for himself!

Posted by: The Left at December 11, 2025 10:42 AM (rQwsY)

291 True beauty comes from within, not the outside wrappings of flesh. But to maintain that inner beauty, it takes more hard work on self improvement than does a mere outer beauty contracted out to plastic surgeons and beauty products.

It also requires inner happiness and a contentment in who you really are and not seeking external validation.
Posted by: whig at December 11, 2025 10:13 AM (WDjG6)
________
That sounds like someone trying to get laid.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 11, 2025 10:17 AM (s0JqF)

From where the cringe expression comes: But....but.....she has a great personality.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 11, 2025 10:43 AM (g8Ew8)

292 The painter decided to turn again
This time with a model positively Hapsburgian
But the result was the same
The painting was lame
But still better than Fat Man on Ottomian

(it's my first limerick, I had to shoehorn in the ending)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 10:43 AM (Dv3i1)

293 BREAKING: Democrats allowed this Illegal Alien into the U.S. @Uber hired him and now he’s been arrested for sexually assaulting a child in Miami during a ride she requested through the Uber Teens app.

He's just sexually assaulting the girls Americans won't. Really it is an act of love

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:43 AM (sKqQm)

294 "Nothing against Trump and MAGA itself, but it has churned up several of these clowns"

Of course. Every movement attracts them, like a magnet attracts iron filings. I remember how the TEA party movement quickly attracted grifters begging for funds for the "Patriotic This" and "Patriot That", and predicting the nation's collapse if you didn't cut them a check ASAP. MTG and Carlson were always loose cannons; we just tended to overlook that fact when, as they rolled around the deck, their muzzles were pointed away from us.

Posted by: Nemo at December 11, 2025 10:43 AM (4RPgu)

295 Amanda Seyfried better be saving up her earnings, because when her looks fade she isn't going to be getting too many jobs based on her character or intellect.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:44 AM (sKqQm)

296 132 Jesus used his spittle to heal a blind man.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

I am convinced he made contact lenses for the guy.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:45 AM (rk+24)

297 261 Utah is not sending their best.

Mormons are not sending their best. A lot of it members seem to have become ... markedly less conservative since somewhere during the Obama admin and Trump's first election. I don't know what's going on inside that church. But like a lot of others, it doesn't seem to be rising to the occasion lately.
Posted by: Red Latter Day at December 11, 2025 10:33 AM (I984p)

I can’t say a thing. Look at the TX HR.

Here’s hoping that human tick, Ken King, can get unseated by John Browning in the primaries.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:45 AM (rQwsY)

298 Dem Rep Kamlager-Dove (CA) goes on tirade about deporting Afghans — says Trump ‘weaponization’ of DC National Guard shoot*ng is ‘repugnant.'

Democrats are more visibly angry over the idea of deportations than they were over the actual shoot*ng.

-
Dove? More like Vulture.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

299 Mormons are not sending their best. A lot of it members seem to have become ... markedly less conservative since somewhere during the Obama admin and Trump's first election. I don't know what's going on inside that church. But like a lot of others, it doesn't seem to be rising to the occasion lately.

Dont a lot of the magic underwear crowd like their EBT and SNAP freebies for their overly large families?

Posted by: Angel Jabroni, the forgotton angel at December 11, 2025 10:47 AM (FGMmt)

300 Every dollar of his high speed rail project was stolen. There isn't a mile of track laid.
____

The Paolo, please pick up the white courtesy phone, please.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 10:47 AM (Dv3i1)

301 Hell on wheels.

BREAKING: Democrats allowed this Illegal Alien into the U.S. @Uber hired him and now he’s been arrested for sexually assaulting a child in Miami during a ride she requested through the Uber Teens app.

ICE Hold now on Jose Miguel Perez-Molina—
a Democrat imported pedophile.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

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What kind of parents (these days, unfortunately, as this shit rarely happened 60+ years ago) or parent (is there a father anywhere?) allows (perhaps it was without their knowledge?) their daughter to be using let alone requesting Uber rides?

The amount of blood on the hands of the Democrat-Communist and RINO GOPee open borders UniParty Scum would coat The Earth several times over ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:48 AM (enCV9)

302 273 268 Good news, everyone! Newsom has fixed ...
Just ask the residents of Pacific Palisades.

Absolutely correct. Only 12 actual homes have been permitted (rapid permit process) with a concomitant penalty fee equivalent to the prior years property tax is construction & permitting has not been completed.

Initial out of pocket cost $50k, additional costs to construction? 10%

https://tinyurl.com/EvilDoktor-GavinUberAlles
Prez/Presumed Presidential Kandidate Kalifornia Psycho - Gavin with his psycho dancin' VP/AOC. What could possibly go wrong?

Light'em up!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 11, 2025 10:48 AM (kEOcX)

303
He stumbled onto somebody (maybe Dr. Eric Berg?) who recommended 50,000 IU of Vitamin D daily -- and it quickly cured ….

If you want to do this, please do it with your doctor. Short term, these doses under medical supervision may be okay. But VIT D toxicity is a thing, tummy upset, fatigue, etc. Plus, if you want to go at those levels, getting them in a shot form is easier.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:49 AM (Wmg4n)

304 Democrats are more visibly angry over the idea of deportations than they were over the actual shoot*ng.

They've already made peace with the fact some of their newcomers will murder/rape heritage Americans. In their mind the votes/graft they are getting from this is more then worth the lives of others.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:49 AM (sKqQm)

305 BREAKING: Democrats allowed this Illegal Alien into the U.S. @Uber hired him and now he’s been arrested for sexually assaulting a child in Miami during a ride she requested through the Uber Teens app.

ICE Hold now on Jose Miguel Perez-Molina—
a Democrat imported pedophile.

She needs to be arrested. Let go of that SWEETHEART who is only here to make a better life for himself!
Posted by: The Left

They are really lucky that we don't just start shooting them.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 10:50 AM (hS7lz)

306 240 TWSS

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 10:50 AM (R11M+)

307 Democrats are more visibly angry over the idea of deportations than they were over the actual shoot*ng.

They've already made peace with the fact some of their newcomers will murder/rape heritage Americans. In their mind the votes/graft they are getting from this is more then worth the lives of others.
Posted by: 18-1

If the wetbacks overwhelmingly voted Republican, the dems would deport all 50 million of them.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 10:51 AM (hS7lz)

308 The painter decided to turn again
This time with a model positively Hapsburgian
But the result was the same
The painting was lame
But still better than Fat Man on Ottomian

(it's my first limerick, I had to shoehorn in the ending)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 10:43 AM (Dv3i1)

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Nice.

I will forever hence refer to the historical event as "The Dissolution of The ~~AutoPen~~ Ottomian Empire."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:51 AM (enCV9)

309 One Season of True Detective had a plot point that the high speed rail project was primarily a venue for graft.

But they were way, way too optimistic picturing it eventually getting built as oppose to ALL of the money being stolen

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:51 AM (sKqQm)

310 That's a Sackville-Morrell if I ever did see one. You can tell by the humps.

Posted by: Odo Proudfoot at December 11, 2025 10:51 AM (7Q0e+)

311 282 Hell on wheels.

BREAKING: Democrats allowed this Illegal Alien into the U.S. @Uber hired him and now he’s been arrested for sexually assaulting a child in Miami during a ride she requested through the Uber Teens app.

ICE Hold now on Jose Miguel Perez-Molina—
a Democrat imported pedophile.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Uber may get thumped pretty hard on this. Not just a lawsuit from the victim, but an in-depth anal prob from state and Federal agents. Does Uber normally let illegals work for them? Is that part of their vetting process? Or, just as likely, many US citizens let illegals drive under their account, with no real Uber screening to prevent. This could be the start of a major overhaul of ridesharing companies.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 11, 2025 10:51 AM (h49qi)

312 If in Texas someone named Browning cannot win a primary over someone named King, and King is not overcoming his name; that will be a bad sign.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 11, 2025 10:51 AM (hhkIi)

313
I see we're doing the Bloomsbury Group this week. I read about those people when I was a teenager of all things.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 11, 2025 10:51 AM (1N/bM)

314
If the wetbacks overwhelmingly voted Republican, the dems would deport all 50 million of them.

Yep. Remember their reaction to Elian Gonzalez

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:52 AM (sKqQm)

315 How much in milligrams is 50,000 IU?

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 10:52 AM (W7XSX)

316 An International Unit (IU) of vitamin D is a measure of its biological activity, with 1 IU equal to 0.025 micrograms (mcg)

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:52 AM (sKqQm)

317 Well, here's a take.

Mark Warner
@MarkWarner
So they can seize an oil tanker, but not a drug boat?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

318 A craft Brewery I once frequented had a dark lager called Hoof Hearted.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup

Named after a race horse.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:53 AM (Wmg4n)

319 307 Democrats are more visibly angry over the idea of deportations than they were over the actual shoot*ng.
...
They've already made peace with the fact some of their newcomers will murder/rape heritage Americans.

Imagine what they'll do when the narco-lords will pay them to take up arms against Trump to make Fentanyl Great (and cheap) again!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 11, 2025 10:53 AM (3DFTl)

320 Lot's of Door Dash drivers are/were illegal aliens.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 10:53 AM (W7XSX)

321 317 Well, here's a take.

Mark Warner
@MarkWarner
So they can seize an oil tanker, but not a drug boat?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

======

The oil tanker is flying a flag, most likely, and protected by sovereign maritime laws.

The drug boat is flying no flag and not protected by any sovereign maritime laws. It's essentially a pirate ship.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

322 DIPs - “Democrat Imported Pedophiles”

“Rape” is the word they are looking for, stop with the euphemisms. “Sexual Assault” can mean anything these days and usually does. “He looked at me”

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 10:54 AM (EAwmw)

323 So they can seize an oil tanker, but not a drug boat?

A few million dollars in cocaine actually dissipates pretty well in the ocean.

I don't think you want to sink an oil tanker though if you can avoid it

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:54 AM (sKqQm)

324 If in Texas someone named Browning cannot win a primary over someone named King, and King is not overcoming his name; that will be a bad sign.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 11, 2025 10:51 AM

Is this about me?

Posted by: King Ranch at December 11, 2025 10:54 AM (0sNs1)

325 They've already made peace with the fact some of their newcomers will murder/rape heritage Americans.

Many of them probably consider it a desirable result...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 11, 2025 10:55 AM (OUMaO)

326 'Ottoline', huh? Is that Admiral Ottoline Morrell from the Biden Administration?

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 10:55 AM (ittVa)

327 If you want to do this, please do it with your doctor. Short term, these doses under medical supervision may be okay. But VIT D toxicity is a thing, tummy upset, fatigue, etc. Plus, if you want to go at those levels, getting them in a shot form is easier.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:49 AM (Wmg4n)

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Thanks for that, Piper. Wifey has been for months daily taking 10,000 UI with K2, Zinc, Magnesium Glycinate, with some fat-based nutrition.

No negative side effects, and possibly good results (hard to say as she's taking numerous supplements like DMSO, collagen, creatine, etc.).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:55 AM (enCV9)

328 GOD NO. TBWNH.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 10:56 AM (iFTx/)

329 An International Unit (IU) of vitamin D is a measure of its biological activity, with 1 IU equal to 0.025 micrograms (mcg)

Please check your arithmetic. By that ratio, 50,000 IU comes to 1.25 milligrams. My multivitamin has 67 milligrams.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 10:57 AM (W7XSX)

330 Its info from the internet, it can't be wrong!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 10:58 AM (sKqQm)

331 Amanda Seyfried refuses to apologize for calling Charlie Kirk "hateful" after he was fatally shot in the neck during a TPUSA event event in Utah-

Somebody mist be desperate for another movie role. Shooting her mouth off to impress the big movie money.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 10:58 AM (2WIwB)

332 320 Lot's of Door Dash drivers are/were illegal aliens.
Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 10:53 AM (W7XSX)

With valid driver’s licenses and car insurance, both of which get checked. So thanks, states who issued them!

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:58 AM (Wmg4n)

333 291 "and huge tracts of land."

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 10:58 AM (R11M+)

334 Come to the HQ for your medical and dating advice!!

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 10:58 AM (pDt9x)

335 These comments are way ottoline.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 11, 2025 10:59 AM (rDZVo)

336 331
Somebody mist be desperate for another movie role. Shooting her mouth off to impress the big movie money.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 10:58 AM (2WIwB)

=====

Her latest, indie movie had a hard time getting sold, though her performance was the central positive aspect (so I've read), so she may actually be gaming for some kind of Oscar buzz.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

337 I would never get in an Uber unless I knew the person who was the driver . You hear terrible stories of people being robed and raped and killed so that there's a ad on the back of a RCC bulletin saying "Before you get in arise share ask SAMI for Stop, Ask, Match, Inform.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 10:59 AM (ix8EF)

338 Okay. I guess you are correct a 50 mcg D3 I have is 2000 IU.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (W7XSX)

339 Mark Warner
@MarkWarner
So they can seize an oil tanker, but not a drug boat?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

What an incredibly stupid man.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (2WIwB)

340 Come to the HQ for your medical and dating advice!!

Slapping a hot iron to it has never failed me!

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (ittVa)

341 Speaks With Forked Tongue's two cents.

Elizabeth Warren
@ewarren
When Trump’s administration stopped making pennies, they left banks, retailers, and consumers unsure how to conduct basic cash transactions.
The result? Inconsistent price-rounding and unequal treatment of customers. I’m pushing for answers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

342 States who let illegals drive should be held criminally liable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 11:00 AM (ix8EF)

343 Noodus CBD

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:01 AM (wzUl9)

344 Come to the HQ for your medical and dating advice!!

Slapping a hot iron to it has never failed me!
Posted by: t-bird

Does that fall under "medical advice" or "dating advice?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

345 She must have really pissed off the artist.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:01 AM (t/2Uw)

346 Yes, it does!

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 11:02 AM (ittVa)

347 I don't give a ---- about rounding off to eliminate pennies.

I rarely use cash as it is.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 11:02 AM (W7XSX)

348
Thanks for that, Piper. Wifey has been for months daily taking 10,000 UI with K2, Zinc, Magnesium Glycinate, with some fat-based nutrition.

No negative side effects, and possibly good results (hard to say as she's taking numerous supplements like DMSO, collagen, creatine, etc.).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 10:55 AM (enCV9)

I am not a medical provider, I just have the nutrition thing 😂. But you should be including your doctor, and thinking about interaction with other meds. Supplements can and do affect how you metabolize things. If your doctor doesn’t help in these spaces, find another one. They exist. Mine is a weight lifter and awesome, which is why I can give my own vit B shots and not pay out the nose for them.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:03 AM (Wmg4n)

349 332. On that Piper, Ace just linked a couple weeks ago a story about how many door dash delivery people are illegals. Someone with DL and insurance gets the Door Dash contract and then subcontracts with illegals on mopeds to do the actual food deliveries.

Probably a good safety measure not to open the door for door dash until the 'driver' has departed. If you want to tip in cash put the money in the door before they arrive.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 11, 2025 11:04 AM (hhkIi)

350 323 cocaine orca?

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 11:04 AM (R11M+)

351 Ban it!

New York Post
@nypost
‘Jingle Bells’ is racist, claims video shared by Joy Reid — sparking Christmas culture war

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

352 349 and it was floated that ice should order an italian beef giardenara stromboli and spaghetti carbonara every hour...

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (R11M+)

353 351 comedian (no idea) comparing "baby it's cold outside" to some filthy rap song (wet pu**y?) is perfect.

Posted by: cmeat at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (R11M+)

354 I hope Lady Maxwell iss aaat least a good cook

Posted by: Jonjay at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (IzaC/)

355 Morrell ,whatever

Posted by: Jonjay at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (IzaC/)

356 Hmm packing a weiner I'd bet.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 11, 2025 11:39 AM (cSNGa)

357 320 Lot's of Door Dash drivers are/were illegal aliens.
Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 10:53 AM (W7XSX)

We did have some DoorDash guys at my store who knew absolutely no English. Key word: did. They seem to have vanished. Deported, maybe?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 01:04 PM (rQwsY)

358 Jennifer Welsh has been around longer than I thought.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at December 11, 2025 01:15 PM (vTTFR)

359 You can’t fool me. That’s a dude.

Posted by: Zumkopf at December 11, 2025 01:38 PM (1Lbh3)

360 Very proud of Habsburg ancestry I bet.

Posted by: Bud Norton at December 11, 2025 02:43 PM (/8Jbh)

361 I'll bet she smells those Freshly Baked Donuts

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 11, 2025 06:28 PM (wGqjj)

362 Otto, really.

Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at December 12, 2025 05:14 AM (kvDvI)

The Morning Report — 12/11/25

Good morning kids. So, on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here as well as in the sidebar and on the outlets listed at the bottom of the post, CBD and I discussed the outstanding leadership of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in terms of revitalizing and reviving the readiness, capability and morale of our armed forces. With the ever present threat for sure posed by the Chi-Coms and a number of other bad actors including Iran, it is vital that President Trump has the absolute cream of the crop in terms of leadership at the Pentagon and so far Hegseth has proven himself quite capable. Now, with the President determined to thwart the influx of deadly fentanyl and other narcotics from overseas (primarily via south and central America, over land and via the sea lanes) that over the past decade and longer has left a staggering body count of dead and wasted lives that is akin to a small war or a very large and sadly ongoing bloody battle. To swipe the hyperbole of the Left when describing the January 6th non-insurrection non-riot, the body count is likely akin to several 9/11 style attacks combined. Add in the pain and suffering of their loved ones and the toll we have taken on so many levels is staggering. Lest we forget, the successful smuggling of these chemical weapons of mass destruction, and that's what fentanyl and opioids in the last analysis truly are, could not really happen without people in place on our shores to facilitate in the offloading and ultimate distribution of them right down to the dime-bag pushers on a street corner. Hence the crucial nature of border and immigration enforcement as well as the general law and order push vis a vis the ordering of National Guard troops to aid and assist local law enforcement in the apprehension of criminal elements, resisted by local politicians who are beholden to the insane policies of defunding the police, and decriminalization of crime by blue shit hole mayors, governors and DAs exclusively of the Democrat/Leftist persuasion.

So the shedding of oceans of crocodile tears for the drug smugglers that the US Navy has blown out of the water is disgusting in the extreme, although quite instructive as to who and what the anti-American Democrat Left actually care about. Hegseth as both a man and as a leader is everything that the Left is not and will never be. He, and of course Donald Trump, who Hegseth represents, is a nemesis to be destroyed. Not just because of that which is reason enough for the Left, but for what he is accomplishing, which to a large extent is the will of the people, but also for his potential future as a national political leader. — no I am not endorsing him for POTUS in 2028, but merely pointing out the salient fact that if he is allowed to continue with his successes without being hindered by his and our enemies, or should he step on a rake down the road (the laughable at best charges of infidelity or some other concocted closet skeleton), he does indeed from where I sit have a shot at national office at some time in the not too distant future (he's only 45)

So all that said, it leads us to our lead story of the day which is yet more action on the high seas in the Caribbean:

The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday.
The tanker’s ownership and origin were not revealed, but Trump said the vessel was “very large” while speaking to reporters on Wednesday. The president did not offer the rationale behind the seizure during his remarks. “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” he said. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video of the U.S. raid on an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday.
The video shows U.S. forces boarding and taking control of the vessel as part of an operation to enforce U.S. sanctions on the sale of Venezuelan oil.
“[T]he Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran,” said Bondi. “For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” she added. “This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely—and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues.”
. . . The decision to seize the oil tanker strikes directly at Venezuela’s main source of revenue, its state-controlled oil industry. The oil it can produce through its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, is often sold internationally to countries such as Iran and China at steep discounts because of the risk of running afoul of U.S. sanctions.

Neither of the links state the final destination of the tanker, but although I cannot find where I read it, I'm fairly sure that I read somewhere that the tanker was bound for Cuba. Oh boy! Chee-Wah-Wah on so many levels if so. First, Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez have been a gigantic pain in our ass for years, let alone the long suffering Venezuelan people who, despite being awash in petroleum are among the poorest in Latin America and the world. But yes young Americans, let's all rush to transform the USA into a socialist paradise on earth, but I digress.

Venezuela aside, a number of South and central American nations are running in the opposite direction, much to the dismay of the Castro regime that still lords over the giant tropical gulag of Cuba. Thank you JFK. As for Venezuela, that regime has a long-standing partnership and close relationship with the mad mullahs of Iran, as well as Xi and the Chi-Coms who are itching to set up shop right on our doorstep to hamper if not strangle us economically, politically and if push comes to shove militarily.

That's why it is refreshing and sane that President Trump as well as Secretary of War Hegseth and Secretary of State Rubio are speaking with one very loud and clear voice in the aggressive reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine.

This excerpt from the White House National Security Strategy released just last month and linked here for your perusal.

Western Hemisphere: The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere. This “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine is a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities, consistent with American security interests.

It would be quite something to finally see Cuba libré after 65 or more years of being a communist slave state, if for no other reason than to see the jug-eared dog-eating piece of shit Barack Obama (who propped up the regime after Fidel was dragged down to Hell) shriek in agony as Donald Trump dynamites the statues of Castro, Lenin and Marx at that Havana reviewing stand, in the same manner as that giant Swastika was blasted off the reviewing stand at the Nuremberg Nazi rally site at the end of World War 2 – I Have a Dream Today!

Of course the treasonous, traitorous venal tyrants in our midst will do their best to prevent that from happening:

I give you a whore who babbles on . . .

During a recent interview with the far-Left Daily Beast, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), one of six Democrat lawmakers who collaborated on the infamous video telling service members they have a duty to refuse “unlawful orders,” made an extraordinary claim. She said they felt compelled to act because:
There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty who — recent veterans, family members of service members — who were coming to us individually and saying two things: One, ‘I’m concerned I’m going to sent in uniform to an American city, you know, like L.A., Chicago, Memphis, and I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?

As CBD and I noted on the podcast, while President Trump perhaps ought to have informed Congress of his intentions to interdict and destroy Venezuelan drug running terrorists on the high seas and that he considers the Maduro regime and Maduro himself as complicit in running drugs and de facto terror leaders in doing so, the fact that he didn't do so beforehand makes little difference to me.

Given who and what the Democrats are, if past is prologue, someone for sure would have spilled the beans to Maduro ahead of time. Even if it meant putting the lives of American military personnel in danger. They hate Trump with the heat of 10,000 suns and hate America itself as much if not more because they, for the time being, have been thwarted in seizing absolute power. When they say "By any means necessary" they're not kidding as we have seen for almost 200 years now.

Sowing mutiny in the ranks. Look what was done to Derek Chauvin who merely did his job as a police officer, and how that affected police morale and recruitment. Luckily Trump and Hegseth are at the top of the heap and the average soldier and officer have little to fear in terms of a politicized attempt to drum someone out of the service for following orders, no matter how ridiculous or loudly SLUTkin and her ilk shriek "WAR CRIMES!" But if God-forbid a Democrat administration once again takes power, then you better believe a Stalinesque purge will sweep through the flag officer corps if not go down the line to just the average dogface for obeying, legitimate orders handed down by the C-in-C Donald Trump.

And so, with no other means to prop up their allies, that is America's enemies, resort to destroying morale and readiness. It's the Chicago/OBAMA way...

Unto my last breath, the greatest threat to America's national security was is and always will be the Democrat Left.

Have a good day.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

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Three People Arrested After Seven Rhode Island College Students Overdose at Party
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: Predictable pushback for calling attention to the threat of jihad and sharia.
Alabama Senator Tuberville Under Fire For Telling Inconvenient Truths
The Muslim Brotherhood’s long game isn’t bombs but burrowing—an influence network shaping campuses, media, and government while Washington looks past the foreign regimes bankrolling it.
Muslim Brotherhood Subversion Targets All of Western Civilization

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
December 9 is a significant date for Jewish people. Why?
Hoboken, NJ, Mayor Apologizes for Flying Palestine Flag on the First Intifada Anniversary
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The media lies even when it doesn't need to.
FACT CHECK: Media Falsely Claims GOP Held Miami for 30 Years
John Stossel: “Justapedia,” says Rindsberg, “was founded by a veteran Wikipedia editor who couldn’t handle the left-wing bias.” “This is exactly what we need . . . people to be able to choose among different sources, so we’re not all forced into the Wikipedia information funnel.”
Wikipedia won’t fix its woke bias — so competitors are on the rise
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Some instructors smeared Israeli and Jewish students as colonists, occupiers, and murderers. One used an introductory astronomy class to rail against 'genocide' in Gaza.
'It's Such a Shame That Your People Survived': Columbia Report Details 'Disturbing' Anti-Semitism From Instructors at Ivy League School

THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Unsealed documents accuse retired Dane County Judge Frank Remington of ghostwriting Judge John Hyland’s order rejecting a dismissal motion.
Documents: Wisconsin Judge In Trump Electors Case Didn’t Write His Own Ruling

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Democrat leaders reportedly view the filing as a political stunt from a struggling Senate candidate.
House Dem Files Articles Of Impeachment Against RFK Jr. And Even Her Own Party Is Trashing Her
As he positions himself as a contender for the Democrat presidential nomination, the governor with the golden résumé is likely to face mounting scrutiny for repeated exaggerations and falsehoods regarding his athletic, academic, and military achievements (So, he's a fraud and a phony - tow key Democrat résumé enhancers right there! - jjs)
Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' on Radical Islam and Was Studying for an Oxford PhD—But His Thesis Is 'Missing' and There's No Evidence He Was Ever a Doctoral Student
POLITICS
It's a message that every single member of our American Congress should be able to agree on, but when there were calls for objections, Sen. Dick Turdbin (D-Ill.) stepped his pretty little self up and did just that.
In a Not so Shocking Move, Senate Democrats Refuse to Condemn Socialism
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
Barghouti is not in prison for his ideology. He is serving five life sentences plus 40 years.
What Celebrities Got Wrong About Marwan Barghouti – He’s No 'Palestinian' Mandela
Can you guess what the goal was?
Hamas Deliberately Hid Tons of Infant Formula and Nutritional Shakes for Children
Those who protect Israel “neither slumber nor sleep.”
IDF Kills 'Palestinian' Islamic Jihad Commander Who Infiltrated Kibbutz on October 7
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
For Operation Spider’s Web to be a success, Ukraine was relying on a group of unwitting Russian drivers to transport their drones to the desired locations, with the truckers believing they were only hauling mobile wooden cabins. . .
Hungover Russians thwart Ukraine’s ‘Pearl Harbor’-style attack on Moscow: report
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The tanker’s ownership and origin were not revealed, but Trump said the vessel was “very large” while speaking to reporters on Wednesday. The president did not offer the rationale behind the seizure during his remarks. “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” he said. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”
US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, President Trump Confirms
Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video of the tanker seizure online on Wednesday.
Trump Admin Drops Video Showing U.S. Forces Swarming Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast
Brazil mine is being developed with U.S. partnership, and US firm now merges mining with REE processing capabilities.
U.S. Strategically Securing Rare Earth Element Supply Chain Away from China
Heavy fighting has displaced over half a million people, with at least a dozen fatalities reported along the Thailand-Cambodia border.
Trump Intervenes in Asian War, Plans Crucial Phone Call as Half a Million Displaced.
Right from the old playbook.
Khamenei’s Lies, Hypocrisy, and the Art of Blaming Others for One’s Own Wars
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Microsoft’s deep entanglement with China, exposed in a new report, shows how the tech giant’s pursuit of profit is undermining U.S. security and handing leverage to a hostile regime.
New Report Exposes Microsoft’s Disturbing Ties To China
In eight glorious years, Reagan canceled American depression and defeatism with sound economic policy and a defense strategy that was stunningly realistic and enormously effective.
Hegseth revives Reagan's defense policy and neocon war hawks hate it
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
A blog post by Congressional Budget Office staff dropped a bombshell: Spending on Medicare prescription drug coverage has exploded.
Medicare Prescription Drugs Could Cost $500 Billion More Than Expected Over The Next Decade
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The record-breaking launches highlight China’s ambition to become a space superpower, with plans to expand its orbital infrastructure.
China Surpasses SpaceX Rocket Launch Record.
The science team labels this “Exposure of North Polar Layered Deposits,” an apt description of the horizontal red and grey and blue layers that dominate the image and make this geology look more like an abstract painting than a natural landscape.
Abstract art produced by nature within Mars’ north pole ice cap (It's no Rothko - jjs)
If anything, these stories illustrate again the corruption in our modern propaganda press. Such stories would have been considered junk four decades ago. Then it was traditional practice that a story needed at least two independent sources, one of which was not anonymous. No longer. Anyone can push any lie, and these news outlets will publicize it, for the sake of clicks.
Unconfirmed anonymous sources at Reuters and Bloomberg claim SpaceX is planning a public stock offering
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The fear of waiting too long, missing out on the right love, or wasting precious childbearing years pushes us to accept any affection — even when it’s fleeting or unhealthy.
Young women's loneliness drives them to 'cuffing season,' temporary romance is not the answer

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Futurism reports that in an attempt to embrace the growing trend of generative AI, McDonald’s Netherlands division collaborated with ad agency TBWA\Neboko to create a 45-second AI-generated Christmas advertisement. However, the fast-food giant’s foray into AI-powered marketing backfired as the ad was met with intense criticism and mockery from viewers for both its “AI slop” features and anti-Christmas message, ultimately leading to its removal from the company’s YouTube channel. The video is available in archive form, and has been reuploaded to YouTube by others:
McDonald’s Calls Christmas ‘Most Terrible Time of the Year’ in AI-Generated Ad
Now Disney seems to be pushing the message that the happiest place on earth is as far away from your family as possible.
Zootopia 2 Teaches Kids They Have Trauma And It’s Their Parents’ Fault
Posobiec said, “I actually have a source who went to school with the Duffer brothers…it was MKUltra experiments…it was a paranormal show. … That’s all it was supposed to be.”
Posobiec: ‘Stranger Things’ Was Supposed to be About MKUltra, then Netflix Turned it into LGBTQ+ Propaganda
Christian Toto:Far-left comic won't name names, but we all know she means Joe Rogan and co. (she's hot and horny for me and CBD! - jjs)
Michelle Wolf: Pro-Trump Podcasters Crave Power

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1 Good. That last thread was unsettling.

Posted by: Case at December 11, 2025 07:15 AM (G1OIb)

2 China is a ridiculous thorn in the ass and its high time America finally told it to fuck all the way off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 07:16 AM (Vq1pX)

3 “There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty … saying … I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?”

Tossing the B$ flag on this. They are in full damage control mode now.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 07:16 AM (0N4FZ)

4 Tossing the B$ flag on this. They are in full damage control mode now.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 11, 2025 07:16 AM (0N4FZ)

So Many. My brain went to imagining the studio audience shouting "how many were there?!".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 07:18 AM (Vq1pX)

5 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 07:18 AM (gbOdA)

6 Thanks, JJ! You rock!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2025 07:18 AM (Cjt/F)

7 Rep Massie wants to put together a bill to remove the US From NATO.

Of course, most of Congress loves the grift that NATO provides, so that is a dead letter.

But, it would be a great response to those Communists who smiled and personally flourished under Biden's hyper-inflation policies when they whine and moan about "Affordability".

Tell Gen-Z they can't buy a house because we are providing the descendants of Nazis with military protection while these same descendants of Nazis aren't working massive hours to pay for it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:18 AM (a4flb)

8 The media lies even when it doesn't need to.
FACT CHECK: Media Falsely Claims GOP Held Miami for 30 Years
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Makes no difference.

Stupid pills replace fentanyl.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 07:19 AM (sQBXy)

9 No tax on tits!

Posted by: Guy who just woke up at December 11, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

10 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 07:19 AM (ExV1e)

11 Oh, tips. Never mind.

Posted by: Guy who just woke up at December 11, 2025 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

12 “There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty … saying … I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?”

I would lean into it and say: "See? These political Retards are doing the enemy's work by sabotaging military readiness. We didn't have this problem until these Retards starting sowing the seeds of mutiny"

This is active sedition, and the Retards are providing the receipts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:21 AM (a4flb)

13 Many people like Newsom, need to be stopped by all means necessary from aiding and abetting child mutilation and murder.

https://tinyurl.com/4nzkhsbc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 07:21 AM (sQBXy)

14 Rats. Just missed the top 10. But I will find the strength to go on.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 07:21 AM (svLOV)

15 I'd be happy with just creating an ATO.

American Treaty Organization.

Let's stop pretending we're just another bullshit country. Get on board, or go pound sand and hope the CCP leaves your crappy little fake country enough scraps to survive on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 07:21 AM (Vq1pX)

16 McDonald’s Calls Christmas ‘Most Terrible Time of the Year’ in AI-Generated Ad

Mc'Donalds Marketing Team: Now do Ramadan or Eid al-Fitr

I dare you.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:23 AM (a4flb)

17 Effective internet ad against Jasmine Crockett:

https://tinyurl.com/ycfjpzav

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 07:23 AM (ix8EF)

18 Slotkin, a CIA plant, is running phase 2 of her color revolution. Thankfully, so far, only the press is in favor; everyone else seems shocked by her open sedition.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 07:24 AM (V6m/5)

19 "The modern court has the chance to restore the 14th Amendment and end the judicially invented version of birthright citizenship."
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Can't wait for the KBJ take on this question.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 07:25 AM (V6m/5)

20 18 Slotkin, a CIA plant, is running phase 2 of her color revolution. Thankfully, so far, only the press is in favor; everyone else seems shocked by her open sedition.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 07:24 AM (V6m/5)

"Revolution of Color!"

- -Ibram X. Krement

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2025 07:26 AM (x0n13)

21 Fun Fact: The French title for Animal House is, American College.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 07:26 AM (XV/Pl)

22 There so many people coming to us, who were on active duty … saying "Resign, you commie bitch!"

Posted by: What really should happen at December 11, 2025 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

23 19 Can't wait for the KBJ take on this question.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 07:25 AM (V6m/5)

I imagine she'll come up with something like "Birth-White citizenship"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2025 07:27 AM (x0n13)

24 Effective internet ad against Jasmine Crockett:

https://tinyurl.com/ycfjpzav
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 07:23 AM (ix8EF)
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Democrats might still nominate her. Which would be tremendous.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 07:29 AM (V6m/5)

25 Democrats might still nominate her. Which would be tremendous.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 07:29 AM (V6m/5)

Turning their OODA loop into OODA spaghetti.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 07:30 AM (Vq1pX)

26 No. I will not identify myself as human. Bite me.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 07:30 AM (vFG9F)

27 the data shows that 81 percent of Minnesota households headed by Somali refugees are on one or more forms of welfare, including 27 percent who are on cash welfare, 54 percent who are on food stamps, and 73 percent who are on Medicaid.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to import more poor people when poor people have put you almost $40 TRILLION in debt?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

28 Early bird special! I was caught unawares. I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole on Saxon/Viking kings and their names: Ethelred the Unready was succeeded by Swein Forkbeard (son of Harald Bluetooth) who was married to Sigrid the Haughty...we've lost a lot by not having official monickers like in the elder days.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 11, 2025 07:32 AM (kpS4V)

29 27 How fucking stupid do you have to be to import more poor people when poor people have put you almost $40 TRILLION in debt?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

Do not conflate stupidity with evil.

And as Milton Friedman observed, you cannot have open borders AND a welfare state. We should have neither, but there you go.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 11, 2025 07:32 AM (x0n13)

30 White is the new fashion color.

The lefty commies disapproves. They are so racist.

Posted by: Case at December 11, 2025 07:33 AM (G1OIb)

31 21 Fun Fact: The French title for Animal House is, American College.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 07:26 AM (XV/Pl)

And Bluto is named Bibendum

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)

32 Hegseth as both a man and as a leader is everything that the Left is not and will never be. He, and of course Donald Trump, who Hegseth represents, is a nemesis to be destroyed.

Just like they want to destroy Andrew Tate.

Can't have Alpha Males as role models to young men.

"Toxic masculinity" or something they only want to see in their swarthy male foreign invaders who come to rape them.

Better to emasculate white men, feminize them, feed them soy rather than red meat, then put them on women's psychotropics (mood stabilizers) and as a last resort cut their junk off and put them in dresses.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:34 AM (9Hs2w)

33
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 07:35 AM (tljrc)

34 "Couple's House Is Only 32 Sq. Ft., But Wait Till You See The Inside" | Sponsored

The internet has been ruined. It's garbage.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage"" at December 11, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

35 "Do not conflate stupidity with evil. "

wisdom for the ages, right there.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2025 07:37 AM (Cjt/F)

36 "Couple's House Is Only 32 Sq. Ft., But Wait Till You See The Inside" |

What did they do? Hollow out a tree?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:38 AM (9Hs2w)

37 The modern court has the chance to restore the 14th Amendment and end the judicially invented version of birthright citizenship.
Can't wait for the KBJ take on this question.

I had a strange feeling I was with cooking gear
I smelled something cookin' and I looked to see
That's when I found out they was a-cookin' me
Great googa mooga, lemme outta here...

Posted by: Kunta Kinte Brown Jackson at December 11, 2025 07:39 AM (FGMmt)

38 @ 28, so very true, Eris!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2025 07:39 AM (Cjt/F)

39 "What did they do? Hollow out a tree?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

Garbage can.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage"" at December 11, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

40 I took one look at the Michelle Wolf article, specifically her pic, and clicked away. I don't need that this early in the morning.

Or at any time of the day, come to that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 07:39 AM (wzUl9)

41 Early bird special! I was caught unawares. I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole on Saxon/Viking kings and their names: Ethelred the Unready was succeeded by Swein Forkbeard (son of Harald Bluetooth) who was married to Sigrid the Haughty...we've lost a lot by not having official monickers like in the elder days.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 11, 2025 07:32 AM (kpS4V)
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I have a huge poster-sized chart showing the complete lineage of the kings and queens of England up through QEII. It's pretty detailed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 07:40 AM (ESVrU)

42 slightly more than 5' x 6'? slightly less than 6' x 6'?

do.
not.
believe.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2025 07:41 AM (Cjt/F)

43 slightly more than 5' x 6'? slightly less than 6' x 6'?

do.
not.
believe.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2025

***
Do they sleep standing up like horses? If so, they both had better be less than 6' tall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 07:43 AM (wzUl9)

44 After the ruling, “independent agencies” flourished – there are at least 19 of them now – moving the country inexorably toward the leftist vision of a powerful central government run by unaccountable “experts” liberated from the whims of voters.

Just looking around I count over 42 agencies and boards that claim to have no real accountability to congress or the President.
75% of the US Government workforce is employed by these “independent agencies”.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

45 “There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty … saying … I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?”
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If an order is obviously illegal you are duty bound not to follow it. If you have qualms about carrying out an order you feel is immoral or wrong, you always have the option as a thinking individual to refuse, but you must be willing to pay the consequences. There was a young officer back in the WoT who felt the Iraq war was wrong and refused to go, then was surprised to be held accountable for his braaaave moral stance. Probably joined to have his college debt paid off.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 11, 2025 07:44 AM (kpS4V)

46

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 11, 2025 07:45 AM (DDJSl)

47 “There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty … saying … I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?”
Slotkin Drops Stunning New Explanation for Releasing ‘Seditious Six’ Video

--

If I were a betting woman, I would state emphatically I believe this to be a complete and total lie. Especially being used as a pretext for their "Seditious Six" video.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 07:46 AM (qBdHI)

48 exactly, Wolfus

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2025 07:46 AM (Cjt/F)

49 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

50 Imagine 2 people trying to live on a 4x8 sheet of plywood. They could probably cram a cat in there too.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

51
We do have such names these days. There's "Kamala the Lush" and her trusty sidekick "Timmy the Tampon".

Have we ever considered that our smart phones have lives of their own? I just swiped its screen and an item that read "How to Name Your Phone" appeared on the screen. I slooooowly turned around and got off of that path real quick!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 07:47 AM (xG4kz)

52 Wages of sin is death.

Wages of failure is a cushy state job.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

53 Ketanji the Kluless

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

54 More than 8-in-10 households headed by Somali refugees in the state of Minnesota are on one or more forms of American taxpayer-funded welfare...

==

But wait, I'm confused. I thought Somalis "built America." How can it be that they can't even support themselves and take care of their own families? /s

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

55 NYPost:

ChatGPT is accused of being complicit in a murder for the first time — allegedly causing the death of a Connecticut mother who was killed by her son after the AI chatbot fed his paranoid delusions, according to an explosive lawsuit filed Thursday. The lawyer behind the case calls the scenario “scarier than Terminator.” And even the chatbot itself admitted to The Post that it appears to bear some responsibility.

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 07:49 AM (Xac3k)

56 I have already named my phone. I call it "You Piece Of Crap".

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

57 "How to Name Your Phone"?

Okay. "Expensive Annoying Piece of Hardware That Is Occasionally Useful"

A little long, but accurate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 07:50 AM (wzUl9)

58 "Addictive Pocket Device"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 07:51 AM (wzUl9)

59 58 "Addictive Pocket Device"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 07:51 AM (wzUl9)

Judges would have accepted "dick".

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

60
There was a young officer back in the WoT who felt the Iraq war was wrong and refused to go, then was surprised to be held accountable for his braaaave moral stance. Probably joined to have his college debt paid off.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

It was equally likely that "he" joined to have his johnson taken off ... at taxpayers' expense.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 07:52 AM (xG4kz)

61
My phone is "OGR."

Omniscient
Glowing
Rectangle

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 11, 2025 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

62 Here is a Japanese High School band playing Sing Sing Sing by Louis Prima from 1936.

https://youtu.be/arLCqkU7Kc0

They play with brio. Only for watching if there is no coffee?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

63 None of these shitbirds were drafted.

Don't re-up next time around, and go find another job if the military isn't right for you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 07:53 AM (Vq1pX)

64
I have already named my phone. I call it "You Piece Of Crap".
Posted by: fd

Hey, that's my laptop's name!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 07:54 AM (xG4kz)

65 And even the chatbot itself admitted to The Post that it appears to bear some responsibility.

Hell to that No.

We are NOT going to give inanimate objects standing in court.

What next, Fido is represented in court because the owner didn't provide treats?

I don't want to assume that AI has moral agency and is held accountable to subjective ethics whims of today's court and emotionally debased society.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:55 AM (9Hs2w)

66 Good morning everyone. Thx JJ.
While I agree that Trump's economy will be going well by the midterms, the Dems bigger problem will be that various Dem factions will continue to do insane things. That will push independents away from radical leftists who will be a lot of the Dem nominees

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 07:55 AM (D+mpw)

67 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 11, 2025 07:51 AM (PrEwq)

We are just so very fortunate that Biden was at the top of his mental and physical game during his Presidency .

Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 11, 2025 07:56 AM (PFs9e)

68 A Georgetown professor was caught on hidden camera calling black conservatives “coons” and saying he “works with stupid white people.”

Jonathan Franklin, a Georgetown professor, went on an undercover date with James O’Keefe, and when he realized he was talking to O’Keefe, he flipped out.

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 07:56 AM (Xac3k)

69 thx, fd, that's it precisely, my brain was still too slow to get there

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2025 07:57 AM (Cjt/F)

70 Testing

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Posted by: Otto Q. Cumber at December 11, 2025 07:57 AM (pcnhy)

71 It has become increasingly difficult for me to understand why anybody still talks about the JEF and his beard. They are the two most loathsome creatures, in-power, to ever inhabit the Capitol. Maybe tied, comparatively, with the fucking Clintons.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 07:58 AM (1zOXE)

72 " And I repeat, I speak of rights. A machine has none. A man must. My client has the right to face his accuser, and if you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine. Indeed, you have elevated that machine above us. I ask that my motion be granted, and more than that, gentlemen. In the name of humanity, fading in the shadow of the machine, I demand it. I demand it!"

Posted by: Captain Kirk's Attorney at December 11, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

73
Someone is thiiiiiis close to learning that "beejers" are not legal currency.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 07:58 AM (xG4kz)

74 Probably, when (if) the Democrats come again to power, they'll want a big show trial for those soldiers who blew up the Venezuelean drug dealers. Maybe they'll try to use the International Criminal Court.

Posted by: PG at December 11, 2025 07:59 AM (1GUBr)

75 'It's Such a Shame That Your People Survived': Columbia Report Details 'Disturbing' Anti-Semitism From Instructors at Ivy League School

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Apply this exact statement from any instructor (lol) at any Ivy League School directed towards black people and let's just see how long they'd last with their flesh still attached to their bones, let alone keeping their employment.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 07:59 AM (qBdHI)

76
Maybe tied, comparatively, with the fucking Clintons.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Duty compels me to point out that the Clintons don't fuck with each other.

They do fuck with others, however.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 08:00 AM (xG4kz)

77 Probably, when (if) the Democrats come again to power, they'll want a big show trial for those soldiers who blew up the Venezuelean drug dealers. Maybe they'll try to use the International Criminal Court.

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Make no mistake. The "Seditious Six" laid the groundwork for just such mass show trial prosecutions once they regain power.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

78 Hilary the Dried up Prune.

Bernie the spoon thief

Bill the deflower of virgins

John the Easter Island refugee

Kamala the laughing hyena

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 08:01 AM (W7XSX)

79 “ If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.”

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

Posted by: Marcus T at December 11, 2025 08:02 AM (pqVDs)

80 Columbia University published its fourth and final anti-Semitism report on Tuesday.

Key Findings:
While we hate Jooz, there are several Ivy League Universities that hate Jooz with more fervor.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

81 Not a shotgun wedding.

Kyle Rittenhouse breaks social media silence to announce marriage as bride totes AR-15 in photos

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 08:03 AM (Xac3k)

82 Barack the Jug Eared Fuck.

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 08:03 AM (Q+gd/)

83 Most galling thing to me about Elissa Slutkin (Deep State-MI) is that she's doing this from a stolen seat.

Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:03 AM (xNHSX)

84 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)

85 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

A prayer for {TiFW} this morning

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:04 AM (9ipOP)

86
Blame has got to be placed somewhere.

I was scrupulously neutral about computing devices until that odious and obnoxious "Clippy" character showed up. And don't get me started on Gates' cursed "below the radar" scum, "sticky keys".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 08:06 AM (xG4kz)

87 Barack the Jug Eared Fuck.

--

In honor of Allen B, I think it was, he's a Stuttering Cluster**** of a Miserable Failure.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

88 Haley Stevens (D- Ick) is a candidate for the Dems Michigan Senate nomination . That's why she's being idiotic. She's trailing badly . Mallory MacMorrow is the leader, a Michigan version of Abortion Barbie. I looked her up and her husband was the content head at Gawker. That senate race will be fun to watch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:06 AM (D+mpw)

89 I got an email this morning for "A Conversation with Kamala Harris". She is coming to town to talk about her book. Here's the text:

"Join former Vice President Kamala Harris for a night of surprising and revealing insights inspired by her #1 New York Times bestselling book, 107 DAYS.

How do we find hope and resilience in the face of adversity? During these special events, Harris will share her powerful and timely message about what it will take to move forward, especially for those feeling disheartened and disconnected from the political process. Harris will talk about her life story, her historic presidential campaign, the experiences that have shaped her personal philosophies, and her path to finding purpose.

With nuance, candor, and a unique perspective, Harris will lead a compelling conversation about how we collectively chart a blueprint that sets an alternative vision for our country now."

Gag. For only $35 you can also get a signed copy of her book.

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

90 I named my phone Phoney McPhoneface.

Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:06 AM (xNHSX)

91 Posted by: Marcus T at December 11, 2025 08:02 AM (pqVDs)

Perhaps consider forwarding it to Jasmine Crockett. For the daughter of a minister she seems to be very irrationally angry towards white people in her state.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 08:06 AM (PFs9e)

92 Iran is so damn tacky.

Put up a green screen or something, anything. Don't just sit there in front of a bare white wall in your stupid chest full of fake medals like a hump.

Make an effort, guys. It's embarrassing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 08:07 AM (Vq1pX)

93 >> There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty who —…

Absolute, total, unmitigated horseshit. The people who get that duty are well trained for it, and to a man and woman will execute that mission faithfully.

If they have any concerns they can take it to the CoC, not seditious politicians. That is their duty.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 11, 2025 08:07 AM (pqVDs)

94 Hegseth got it goin’ on.

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 08:08 AM (o2ZRX)

95 It would be quite something to finally see Cuba libré after 65 or more years of being a communist slave state, if for no other reason than to see the jug-eared dog-eating piece of shit Barack Obama (who propped up the regime after Fidel was dragged down to Hell) shriek in agony as Donald Trump dynamites the statues of Castro, Lenin and Marx at that Havana reviewing stand, in the same manner as that giant Swastika was blasted off the reviewing stand at the Nuremberg Nazi rally site at the end of World War 2 – I Have a Dream Today!
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Damn JJ take a breath!

BTW that swastika was blown off the top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:08 AM (9ipOP)

96 Most people do their book tour before the stupid thing is remaindered. But you do you, lady.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 08:09 AM (Vq1pX)

97 Organizing my Stickies on my iMac, I wrote this in 2016:

The Progressives have shown they want to rule as a Kleptocracy, a Kakistocracy, and a Narcokleptocracy. Note the Oxford comma.

Plus ca change plus cèst la meme chose.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

98 Unto my last breath, the greatest threat to America's national security was is and always will be the Democrat Left.

Preach!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

99
Make no mistake. The "Seditious Six" laid the groundwork for just such mass show trial prosecutions once they regain power.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 08:01 AM

that's the real threat here

iff the leftards take control of the House in the mid-terms, they can start all kinds of witch hunts against service members who "followed (what the demtards consider) illegal orders"

they'll have subpoena power and will be able to drag the military over the coals to purge out the wrong-think

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 08:11 AM (tljrc)

100
Hakeem the Temu Emu

Ask me about my sombrero sale! Huge mark downs! Everything must go! Complementary tortilla chips and hot sauce for our first five hundred customers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 08:11 AM (xG4kz)

101 "For only $35 you can also get a signed copy of her book."

In addition to the $20?

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 08:11 AM (Q+gd/)

102 I used to call it ad-hocracy.

Rule by whim.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 08:11 AM (Vq1pX)

103 Hegseth got it goin’ on.
Posted by: Eromero

And the 'ettes want to see more pictures of him getting out of the ocean wearing only swim trunks, so we gots that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

104 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 08:11 AM (hS7lz)

105 I named my phone Phoney McPhoneface.
Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:06 AM (xNHSX)

Mine is Noneyabidness

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

106 With all the color revolutions the alphabet agencies have tried to inflict right here in the US of A, it wouldn't surprise me if the CIA or similar within the US actually handed Cuba intel that led to the Bay of Pigs.

We've had a lot of Red sympathizers. They're open about it now, and are even getting elected. But how many were subverting the country back then?

Posted by: Another Anon at December 11, 2025 08:12 AM (4h45B)

107 Hegseth and Rubio. Two brilliant choices by our Prez.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 08:12 AM (pDt9x)

108 Mel Tucker thinks Sherrone Moore is an idiot.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 11, 2025 08:12 AM (rJ48h)

109 THE ECONOMY, STUPID

I see a lot of videos on YT where certain economic things are persistently 'misunderstood'.

- People seem to believe that tariffs are affecting the price of food.
- People believe that inflation going down should mean that we have deflation.
- People fail to recognize the impact of tens of millions of people either taking jobs away from citizens or receiving benefits paid for by citizens.
- People fail to recognize the impact of the government requiring businesses to give raises to entry level workers.

I'm not sure how much of this is an op and how much is genuine economic ignorance. It's sad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

110 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 11, 2025 08:13 AM (pd4dZ)

111 A senior IRGC General just admitted on Iranian TV that the team that assassinated #Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was made up of Iranians, trained by Mossad.
Fakhrizadeh was the architect of Iran’s nuclear weapons project
• Killed in 2020 near Tehran in a precision ambush widely attributed to Israel.
What the official revealed on TV:
• No foreign hit squad, Mossad used local collaborators
• Recruits trained abroad in three short courses
• Cost per recruit: €25,000
• Israel built a covert network inside Iran
• Tehran is now executing people out of fear, not strength Iran spent decades claiming Israel was the “external enemy.”
Now it’s admitting the real threat is already inside the regime’s walls.

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 08:13 AM (Xac3k)

112 With nuance, candor, and a unique perspective, Harris will lead a compelling conversation about how we collectively chart a blueprint that sets an alternative vision for our country now."

This is not possible.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

113 Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

😉 I mostly put it up as a response to boob-a-palozza , but yes, he does look good coming out of the water with no shirt .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 08:14 AM (PFs9e)

114 The mystery surrounding the title of and content of Moore's thesis could be resolved with a cursory review of the document. But that, too, poses a problem for Moore. His office could not produce a copy of the document since we began requesting it in early November.

And good luck finding it at Oxford's legendary Bodleian Library, which archives all MLitt theses from the university's graduate students. A senior librarian told the Free Beacon she couldn't find "any trace" of Moore's paper, because he never submitted it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

115 AltonJackson

Congress has been very very careful to neuter the flag officer community. Congress approves all promotions at that level, and seem to be responsible for the rot in the flag officer ranks. Certainly no Patton or Cromwell is allowed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 08:14 AM (u82oZ)

116 Mel Tucker thinks Sherrone Moore is an idiot.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 11, 2025 08:12 AM (rJ48h)

Way to go out on a limb, there Mel. Just because I didn't know who you were before this, doesn't mean you can go so far off the rails like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

117 Good morning Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 08:15 AM (Wc8sE)

118 >>>Mel Tucker thinks Sherrone Moore is an idiot.

Started the day in Schembechler Hall as head football coach, finished the day in a jail cell.

That's rough, man.

Fun fact: Since 2014, when Jim Harbaugh was named head coach, Michigan has had 11 staffers either arrested (7) or banned from the sport for rules violations (4).

Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 08:15 AM (Y1sOo)

119
... in your stupid chest full of fake medals like a hump.

Make an effort, guys. It's embarrassing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

One has to hand it to the top brass in the Norks' military services -- with those oversized hats, they have really got it going on!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 08:15 AM (xG4kz)

120 FenelonSpoke

I was thinking of your response to that video. I noted it for future use.

May you and your dear FenelonSpouse continue to be turtledoves, hand in hand.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

121 Today is International Mountain Day. 🏔️

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

122 I named my phone Phoney McPhoneface.
Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:06 AM (xNHSX)

Mine is Noneyabidness
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

I always name my wifi something referencing some government surveillance group. I suppose I could name my phone "Undercover Officer".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)

123
Fun fact: Since 2014, when Jim Harbaugh was named head coach, Michigan has had 11 staffers either arrested (7) or banned from the sport for rules violations (4).
Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 08:15 AM (Y1sOo)

NO one cares about that. Notre Dame missing the CFP is the 'light your hair on fire' news of the year, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

124 "With nuance, candor, and a unique perspective, Harris will lead a compelling conversation about how we collectively chart a blueprint that sets an alternative vision for our country now."

This is not possible.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)
----
This is because it was clearly written by AI.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 08:17 AM (ESVrU)

125 New CO state law going into effect.

CO SB25-183

In 2024, CO voters approved Amendment 79, which:
1. Repealed the state constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of public funds to pay for abortions; and
2. Added an amendment recognizing the right to an abortion and prohibiting CO state and local governments from denying, impeding, or discriminating against the exercise of that right, including prohibiting health insurance companies from excluding coverage for abortion.

This current bill codifies changes to state law relating to abortion to conform with Amendment 79.

Current law requires the executive director of HCPF to authorize Medicaid reimbursement for family-planning-related services. This act expands the definition of "family-planning-related services" to include abortion care. The act requires the medical services board to include abortion care in the schedule of health-care services available for pregnant persons enrolled in the children's basic health plan [Medicaid].

Posted by: muldoon at December 11, 2025 08:17 AM (/iMjX)

126 Ban Arbor...Classy U

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 11, 2025 08:17 AM (/6GbT)

127 There's always an "FBI Surveillance Van" when I search for Wi-Fi in my area. Weird thing is, it's there no matter where I live.

Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:18 AM (xNHSX)

128
I'm not sure how much of this is an op and how much is genuine economic ignorance. It's sad.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

As planned. An ignorant society is easily controlled.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

129 Today is International Mountain Day. 🏔️
Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/cPlxsQn5xBI

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 08:18 AM (Wc8sE)

130 muldoon!

Good to see you posting.

I think I can break OPSEC to say I had a great time meeting you and yours. It is a golden memory.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

131 There's a boob-a-palooza?
Where?

Posted by: Most guys at December 11, 2025 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

132 ’m concerned I’m going to sent in uniform to an American city, you know, like L.A., Chicago, Memphis, and I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?
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They are such liars. This is like when Obama used to say that he received a "letter". Sure you did, dummy.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 08:19 AM (fexSQ)

133 Morning Horde. Makes so much sense . good info on Slotkin.

Fat girl from a uber wealthy family gets a job at CIA, with the purpose of being a Senator/ CIA agent. Losing on election night, while Trump is crushing it in Mich. No worries, use CIA software to make 500k split tickets

Posted by: Jonah at December 11, 2025 08:20 AM (YCxFk)

134 " Today is International Mountain Day. 🏔️
Posted by: redridinghood"

*gets out mountain gun*

Posted by: fd at December 11, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

135 @111 the Iranians had executed at least 1400 by the end of November. The number is probably much higher. That area is getting sporty as the Iranians are pissed at the Taliban because of dams denying Iran water, the Pakis and Afghans are fighting, the Indians are helping the Afghans to piss off the Pakis, etc, etc , etc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:20 AM (D+mpw)

136 The Bidens never really got a chance to set the high bar like the Obamas and Clintons, because Cadaver Joe was limited to one term. But they were on a trajectory, with Kamala onboard, to capture the flag.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 08:21 AM (1zOXE)

137 You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/cPlxsQn5xBI
Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 08:18 AM (Wc8sE)

Well played, sir.

Comments are awesome. Straight from the top, they're lambasting the RnR HoF because of it being an embarrassing shithole of misery and uselessness.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

138 I really like Jasmine Crockett's origin story, the one where she marched into the prosecutor's office and demanded he hire her because she's black.

1) it's a flat-out lie. Never happened. Could not happen. You don't just get to walk into the prosecutors office.
Fun fact: TX district attorney's are (used to be?) legally allowed to carry/own fully auto weapons.
There's a long history of absolutely not letting people just walk in.
She had an appointment.
If it ever happened.

2) While it sounds great--strong, empowered!--to AWFLs and black liberals, it's total cringe to anyone else.
Please keep retelling it

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 08:21 AM (HXT0k)

139 >> Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 08:06 AM (PFs9e)

You know better than me which parts of the Bible apply to Ms Crockett. And it’s not the good parts.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 11, 2025 08:21 AM (xkNPX)

140 UM's Athletic Director is going to be fired next. Just watch.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 08:21 AM (Y1sOo)

141 The Federalist
@FDRLST
Justice Thomas grills Russia collusion hoaxer Marc Elias about his rambling campaign finance arguments.

“I still don’t understand what you’re saying.”

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 08:21 AM (Xac3k)

142 Jim Harbaugh by all accounts is a decent guy in his private life; Christian family man. BUT… he comes across (at least to me) as such a tool and he left behind a car wreck at Michigan (after winning a title of course)…. Sheesh

Reminds me of Pete Carroll leaving USC right before that place fell apart with NCAA sanctions (BTW all the horrible USC violations are now legal and encouraged)… college ball is a mess

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 08:21 AM (sj4m8)

143 Kumala can't even speak above a first grade level and we're supposed to believe she wrote a book.

Maybe she could write a Dick and Jane book but that's about it.

See Willy
See Willy's willy.

See see see,
See Willy's willy.

Suck, Kumala, suck.
Suck suck suck.
See Kumala suck Willy's willy.

Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:22 AM (xNHSX)

144
Today is International Mountain Day. 🏔️
Posted by: redridinghood

Until they publicly and loudly proclaim their pronouns for all to hear, they're getting exactly Doodly and Squat from this household.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 08:22 AM (xG4kz)

145 As planned. An ignorant society is easily controlled.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

I have tried, in the past, to point out some facts to people but internet ignorance is aggressive and most of them don't want the truth anyway. They just want someone to pat them on the head, say it's not their fault, and give them $100M.

At least some of the girls are willing to give you some video of her banging a half dozen guys in return for the cash.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

146 "My OTHER CIA burner phone."

Posted by: Just don't tell Bob at December 11, 2025 08:22 AM (2Ez/1)

147 Today is International Mountain Day. 🏔️
Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

*whips out dick*

*shoves it in Chasten's ass*

BROKEBACK!!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 11, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

148 For Operation Spider’s Web to be a success, Ukraine was relying on a group of unwitting Russian drivers to transport their drones to the desired locations, with the truckers believing they were only hauling mobile wooden cabins.

Unfortunately, there was a small pool of drivers to choose from during the holiday as hungover drivers took the day off, making it far too risky to carry out the mission, SBU officials told the WSJ.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

149 NCAA and Ann Arbor Socialists wanted Jim Harbaugh gone, after he celebrated the over turning of Roe vs Wade on Twitter

Posted by: Jonah at December 11, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

150 109 THE ECONOMY, STUPID

I see a lot of videos on YT where certain economic things are persistently 'misunderstood'.

- People seem to believe that tariffs are affecting the price of food.

I'm not sure how much of this is an op and how much is genuine economic ignorance. It's sad.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

To be fair to point 1, if the food is an international food, like say chocolate from Germany, tariffs ARE affecting the price of that particular end user food. While food companies will eat most of the tariff, they will try to pass on what they can.

Yet, the reverse happens for American food products other countries are now no longer willing to import b/c of "get even" for our tariffs (see soybeans and China). Supply becomes larger here and drops the cost here, especially the more perishable it is.

So, with food tariffs, you get an uneven effect, and as far as I've seen, that effect has been positive for consumers overall, not negative, b/c we make a TON of our own food.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 08:23 AM (tOcjL)

151
Fun fact: Since 2014, when Jim Harbaugh was named head coach, Michigan has had 11 staffers either arrested (7) or banned from the sport for rules violations (4).

Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 08:15 AM

in my admittedly limited knowledge of college football, I still maintain that michigan football is now, and always has been, the filthiest program in all of college sports

drive past their practice facility and check out the parking lot...not a single "beater" in the lot, the players all drive 3 series BMWs. all of them.

been that way for years

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 08:23 AM (tljrc)

152 @FDRLST
Justice Thomas grills Russia collusion hoaxer Marc Elias about his rambling campaign finance arguments.

“I still don’t understand what you’re saying.”
Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 08:21 AM (Xac3k)

Yeah, I wouldn't exactly label that exchange "a grilling."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

153 I'm not sure how much of this is an op and how much is genuine economic ignorance. It's sad.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 08:23 AM (hS7lz)

154 LinusVanPelt

Kansas State University lost a very good coach because he did not like the new college football culture. He resigned.
When you leave a job paying you millions, you know the work environment is bad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

155 'It's Such a Shame That Your People Survived':
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LMAO these are the people who call *us* Nazis.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 08:24 AM (fexSQ)

156 I’m going to sent in uniform to an American city, you know, like L.A., Chicago, Memphis, and I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?

Well... if you're absolutely certain that they're illegal, refuse the order. As you were trained to do. Of course, if you're wrong... and you're likely wrong, be prepared to spend a bit of time in prison and get an unfortunate discharge. Of course, you could try and convince others to follow your lead... then you'd be shot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

157 123
Fun fact: Since 2014, when Jim Harbaugh was named head coach, Michigan has had 11 staffers either arrested (7) or banned from the sport for rules violations (4).
Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 08:15 AM (Y1sOo)

NO one cares about that. Notre Dame missing the CFP is the 'light your hair on fire' news of the year, you see.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

Duke should complain. If a big conference championship winner doesn't matter, they might as well get rid of the championship games. No one complains when an upset happens in a CC game in college basketball to knock out a deserving team from the bracket. It should be no different here.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 08:25 AM (tOcjL)

158 Ironic that MTG is a devout Pro lifer, and the idiots on the left still embrace her. LOL

Posted by: Jonah at December 11, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)

159
True historical fact: Red Kammie's deep and abiding affair with Venn Diagrams started at an extremely young age when she mistook their characteristic interlocked circles as a "really cool!" variation of Hop-Scotch.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 08:25 AM (xG4kz)

160 Are they propping up Kamala for another run (?) for President, because otherwise I don't see the point of her book tour. It's not as if people don't know who she is or that she needs more money.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 08:26 AM (Nx5jP)

161 Just wait until Sharrone Moore's side slam files her lawsuit against the university. It's going to be wild.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 08:26 AM (Y1sOo)

162
Today is International Mountain Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:16 AM

cues up Mississippi Queen

(for bonus points, can you name a second Mountain song without looking it up? me neither)

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 08:26 AM (tljrc)

163 Nantucket Sleighride is the only other Mountain song I know of.

Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:27 AM (xNHSX)

164 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

An old Royal Navy toast:

Confusion to our enemies!

May we hold our heads up high because we are pragmatic, and avoid failure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

165 Posted by: Captain Kirk's Attorney at December 11, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

Couldn't remember Samuel T Cogley's name?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 11, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)

166 As planned. An ignorant society is easily controlled.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

One thing Brit Lass noticed when she arrived her sometime ago is that Americans didn't know anything - including basic medical shit - compared to her countrymen. Normally I don't take kindly to people shitting on Americans but she wasn't. She just noticed our education is woefully inadequate compared to what she assumed was "normal". Imagine how bad it is now. The Left have kept us in the dark for a long time.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 08:28 AM (fexSQ)

167 What does'nt Gretchen Whitmer take any heat for the scandals at Mich State or UM? Both state schools

Posted by: Jonah at December 11, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk)

168 The Federalist
@FDRLST
Justice Thomas grills Russia collusion hoaxer Marc Elias about his rambling campaign finance arguments.

“I still don’t understand what you’re saying.”
---
Well, the whole argument in favor of the law is stupid.

It's basically "unlimited money to the candidate's party is a bribe, but unlimited money to the candidate's PAC is ... not."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 08:29 AM (HXT0k)

169 The official theme song for Mountain Day should be Joe Walsh "Rocky Mountain Way."

Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:29 AM (xNHSX)

170 > Just wait until Sharrone Moore's side slam files her lawsuit against the university. It's going to be wild.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 08:26 AM (Y1sOo)

I doubt it gets that far. Michigan's attorneys are probably working on a settlement and NDA right now.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 11, 2025 08:29 AM (rJ48h)

171
Kansas State University lost a very good coach because he did not like the new college football culture. He resigned.
When you leave a job paying you millions, you know the work environment is bad.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 11, 2025 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

Nick Saban left the game because of NIL and the portal. It's unacceptable. Even professional athletes can't jump from team to team every year because they got their feewings hurt in practice that one time.

He said he wasn't going to waste his time recruiting a kid, spending tons of money along with the time and effort it takes to make a premier athlete only to see them leave because they didn't get the playing time they 'deserve.'

College football is an absolute mess right now.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the fact that my Red Raiders are in the CFP and ranked in the top 5 for the first time in program history. But that's mainly because they have a booster giving the school millions for NIL money.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

172
What does'nt Gretchen Whitmer take any heat for the scandals at Mich State or UM? Both state schools

Posted by: Jonah at December 11, 2025 08:28 AM

Gretchen Whitmer is the Jussie Smollet of governors

Posted by: AltonJackson | Contractual Obligation Comment at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (tljrc)

173 @114 Moore seems to have a bit of a problem with the truth. Pathetic because what he has done would make a decent resume for anyone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (D+mpw)

174 Sponge, wife is doing well? I hope Grammie is well too

Posted by: Jonah at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

175 To be fair to point 1, if the food is an international food, like say chocolate from Germany, tariffs ARE affecting the price of that particular end user food. While food companies will eat most of the tariff, they will try to pass on what they can.

Yet, the reverse happens for American food products other countries are now no longer willing to import b/c of "get even" for our tariffs (see soybeans and China). Supply becomes larger here and drops the cost here, especially the more perishable it is.

So, with food tariffs, you get an uneven effect, and as far as I've seen, that effect has been positive for consumers overall, not negative, b/c we make a TON of our own food.
Posted by: Nova Local

I'd bet the ones yelling about food costs affected by tariffs are really the ones screaming about how their SNAPS are being cut and how are they gonna feed their 6 ADD children. (All Different Daddies)

They ain't the ones buying imported fru fru chocolates from Germany and fromage from Fwance. Those that are understand how tariffs work.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (hS7lz)

176 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

177 What does'nt Gretchen Whitmer take any heat for the scandals at Mich State or UM? Both state schools
Posted by: Jonah at December 11, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk)

Nothing bad is ever due to a dem… especially a female dem. Kinda like Biden inflation is suddenly Trump’s fault….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (WnEm5)

178 Part D insurers’ bids coming in much higher than expected last year. In a letter last October, the budget gnomes said plan bids increased 42 percent from 2024 to 2025, 16 percentage points higher than the 26 percent hike they expected.

Bidenflation seems to be 16 to 20 percent no matter how you look at it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

179 JJ, I sent you a link yesterday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

180 Right. The Mich QB got 10 million in NIL $ last year. Watch him go back into portal

Posted by: Jonah at December 11, 2025 08:31 AM (YCxFk)

181 “I grew up in a Somali clan-based society … [where] Loyalty to kin was absolute. Loyalty to the nation was theoretical at best,” she writes ... (The Democrat Party is KLAN-based!, with a culture of civic corruption! - jjs)

Hirsi Ali: Americans Must Suppress Somali Culture of Civic Corruption

No need to suppress that culture when we can just deport that culture. Every single last one of them. And then ban indefinitely any immigration from Third World countries.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 11, 2025 08:31 AM (P5BPp)

182 169 The official theme song for Mountain Day should be Joe Walsh "Rocky Mountain Way."
Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:29 AM (xNHSX)

Judges would have accepted Rocky Mountain High.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

183
Ban Arbor...Classy U
Posted by: A dude in MI

Represented in Congress by a Dingell for nearly a hunnert years!

"Three generations of imbeciles is enough!"

-- some SCOTUS justice, sometime in the past

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 08:33 AM (xG4kz)

184 Well played, sir.

Comments are awesome. Straight from the top, they're lambasting the RnR HoF because of it being an embarrassing shithole of misery and uselessness.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

Thought you might like me using a song other than Mississippi Queen.

Iron Maiden concurs with those comments about the RRHOF.

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 08:33 AM (Wc8sE)

185 Mrs. F. read Kamala's book and is confident Kamala has no idea what's in it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:33 AM (A0sqA)

186 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 11, 2025 08:33 AM (53oGX)

187 I'd bet the ones yelling about food costs affected by tariffs are really the ones screaming about how their SNAPS are being cut and how are they gonna feed their 6 ADD children. (All Different Daddies)

They ain't the ones buying imported fru fru chocolates from Germany and fromage from Fwance. Those that are understand how tariffs work.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (hS7lz)

The comments on tariffs are, almost exclusively, on videos about the high costs of dining out. About how McDonalds costs so much now. Chipotle costs so much now.

Not a whole lot of their ingredients are imported.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

188 I get to have my very last goal review meeting today. Yay!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

189 Duke should complain. If a big conference championship winner doesn't matter, they might as well get rid of the championship games. No one complains when an upset happens in a CC game in college basketball to knock out a deserving team from the bracket. It should be no different here.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 11, 2025 08:25 AM (tOcjL)

I don't disagree, but if you're going to do the insane practice of ranking an independent school in your top 10 every year, despite them playing a weak schedule most years, you can't say the conference championships mean so much, especially after Alabama getting absolutely SMOKED in theirs yet still making the playoff, and put every winner in.

I was happy Duke won to actually blow this idiocy of a 'committee' up even more.

It's an absolute mess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Part D insurers’ bids coming in much higher than expected last year. In a letter last October, the budget gnomes said plan bids increased 42 percent from 2024 to 2025, 16 percentage points higher than the 26 percent hike they expected.

Bidenflation seems to be 16 to 20 percent no matter how you look at it.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

I wonder how much of that is coming from Ozempic and the like.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

191 Just for ASS - the reason Venezuelan oil goes to Cuba is that it's the only way that Cuba can keep its antiquated, failing oil fueled electrical grid up. Since Cuba has no money to buy oil anymore, guesses are that some kind of arrangement between Maduro, Russia, and Iran keeps Cuba propped up.

The seizure of this tanker is likely to wreak havoc on Cuba's electrical grid.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 08:34 AM (ZKT7t)

192 The official theme song for Mountain Day should be Joe Walsh "Rocky Mountain Way."
Posted by: Delurker at December 11, 2025 08:29 AM (xNHSX)

Judges would have accepted Rocky Mountain High.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

I happen to be in Colorado currently. Will dial those both up later when driving back to Denver.

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 08:35 AM (Wc8sE)

193 Make no mistake. The "Seditious Six" laid the groundwork for just such mass show trial prosecutions once they regain power.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 08:01 AM

that's the real threat here

iff the leftards take control of the House in the mid-terms, they can start all kinds of witch hunts against service members who "followed (what the demtards consider) illegal orders"

they'll have subpoena power and will be able to drag the military over the coals to purge out the wrong-think
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 08:11 AM (tljrc)

What if the military, then, turns around and tells them that they're sick of their crap and it's "game on". These cretons better think this out before a very bad scenario is acted out.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 08:35 AM (5xuJ/)

194
Iron Maiden concurs with those comments about the RRHOF.
Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 08:33 AM (Wc8sE)

They lost me immediately when Stevie Ray Vaughn wasn't first ballot and didn't enter until YEARS later on the same ballot as f*cking Green Day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

195 I get to have my very last goal review meeting today. Yay!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)
====

Have you prepared your manifesto?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:35 AM (A0sqA)

196 College football is an absolute mess right now.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the fact that my Red Raiders are in the CFP and ranked in the top 5 for the first time in program history. But that's mainly because they have a booster giving the school millions for NIL money.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

I hope Tech wins the whole thing… or Alabama (because of the Saban connection). But it’s getting harder and harder for me to enjoy watching this sport I used to love and grew up with. I saw Troy Aikman made a comment that he donated a good sum of NIL money to UCLA (where he played) and he said “never again” because the kid who got his money (people speculate it was QB Dante Moore) never said thank you and just picked up and left for a better offer at Oregon the next year.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 08:36 AM (WnEm5)

197
Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson
Minnesota Food Plant Worker Exposes Violent, Filthy Third-World Chaos After Mass Somali Hiring

- They urinated and defecated everywhere
- Had to put up signs explaining how to use the bathroom, they ignored them
- Men washing their genitals in the sinks
- Brought in a roast infestation.
- Brought knives into the facility

“There's no rule of law. How do you expect them to integrate with within modern society is beyond me. It's a real problem and it's a major reason why I left Minnesota.”

https://tinyurl.com/485b7h24

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

198 Unemployment claims higher than expected, long term unemployment decreased

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:37 AM (D+mpw)

199 Remember: All campaign finance laws came in to being because the left hated getting beat so soundly by Nixon.

No, no! It wasn't because they are shitty people who have shitty ideas--it was all because one rich guy donated $1,000,000 to his campaign.

The grandfather of the "$100k in Facebook ad swayed the election."

But there has never been a Constitutional basis for campaign finance laws.
Reporting, yes. But spending or donation limits, no.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 11, 2025 08:37 AM (HXT0k)

200 I get to have my very last goal review meeting today. Yay!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)
====

Have you prepared your manifesto?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:35 AM (A0sqA)

I don't follow the joke here so I'm going to assume it's because I said that it would be my last and you're suggesting that I'm going postal?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

201 Mrs. F. read Kamala's book and is confident Kamala has no idea what's in it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:33 AM (A0sqA)
----
What measures did you take to restore Mrs. F.'s IQ after she read that dreck?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 08:38 AM (ESVrU)

202 Sponge, wife is doing well? I hope Grammie is well too
Posted by: Jonah at December 11, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

She is, thanks for asking. She's still on the mend from surgery last week, but starting Jan. 1, she should have a new lease on life and start getting going full speed.

Last I heard, grammie is doing well with her treatments, praise be to God.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

203 I wonder how much of that is coming from Ozempic and the like.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

100%

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

204 @bennyjohnson
Minnesota Food Plant Worker Exposes Violent, Filthy Third-World Chaos After Mass Somali Hiring

- They urinated and defecated everywhere
- Had to put up signs explaining how to use the bathroom, they ignored them
- Men washing their genitals in the sinks
- Brought in a roast infestation.
- Brought knives into the facility

“There's no rule of law. How do you expect them to integrate with within modern society is beyond me. It's a real problem and it's a major reason why I left Minnesota.”

https://tinyurl.com/485b7h24
Posted by: redridinghood

You can't expect fourth worlders to integrate into a first world society.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 08:38 AM (hS7lz)

205 Fast food costs so much because the Aztec who flips the burger is getting $21 and the employer is paying another $12 in benefits.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:38 AM (A0sqA)

206 She is, thanks for asking. She's still on the mend from surgery last week, but starting Jan. 1, she should have a new lease on life and start getting going full speed.

Last I heard, grammie is doing well with her treatments, praise be to God.
Posted by:

Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 08:39 AM (hS7lz)

207 Brought in a roast infestation.

I'm gonna guess that this was supposed to be roach since roasts don't seem out of place at a food processing facility.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)

208 "The official theme song for Mountain Day should be Joe Walsh "Rocky Mountain Way."

Billy the Mountain

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at December 11, 2025 08:39 AM (vFG9F)

209 "- Brought in a roast infestation. "

heh

Posted by: davidt at December 11, 2025 08:39 AM (Q+gd/)

210 2 China is a ridiculous thorn in the ass and its high time America finally told it to fuck all the way off.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Not so fast!!
~ 80% of Congress

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 08:39 AM (Dv3i1)

211 @bennyjohnson
Minnesota Food Plant Worker Exposes Violent, Filthy Third-World Chaos After Mass Somali Hiring

- Men washing their genitals in the sinks

"That the new thing, now? Walkin around, wearin' short dresses, sniffin' cocaine and washin' yo dick in the sink? Well.....why you put it in there? Somethin' wrong wit chu?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

212 Seeing as how Mountain Day falls in Zappa month.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at December 11, 2025 08:40 AM (vFG9F)

213 I get to have my very last goal review meeting today. Yay!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)
---
Goal #1 - Do nothing.
Goal #2 - See Goal #1.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 08:40 AM (ESVrU)

214 Are they propping up Kamala for another run (?) for President, because otherwise I don't see the point of her book tour. It's not as if people don't know who she is or that she needs more money.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 08:26 AM (Nx5jP)

They may not want Trump to know who to target yet. So a lot of it will be fog. Not that the woman doesn't want to run - maybe she does. Also she was definitely "chosen" for a long time - totally corrupt and probably owes lots of favors everywhere - they may still want her in.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 08:40 AM (fexSQ)

215 NO Somalis, NO Afghans, NO Haitians.

Kick ‘em all out.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ)

216 They lost me immediately when Stevie Ray Vaughn wasn't first ballot and didn't enter until YEARS later on the same ballot as f*cking Green Day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

So many egregious examples. Foreigner just got in this year. I stopped keeping track but other notables who just got in or maybe still aren't -- Boston, Frampton, Bad Company.

Whatever. As Alex Lifeson said during Rush's induction -- "Blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah. Blah blah blah blah blah."

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 08:40 AM (Wc8sE)

217 @191 Tom Servo, Cuba's electric grid is down regularly. If they have a major interruption of oil it could collapse completely and be unable to be restarted. It would be an awesome ricochet for Trump and the US if the Cuban communist government finally collapsed because of his policies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:40 AM (D+mpw)

218 What measures did you take to restore Mrs. F.'s IQ after she read that dreck?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 08:38 AM (ESVrU)
====

She took one for the team, but then again is a voracious reader.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:40 AM (A0sqA)

219 "The official theme song for Mountain Day should be Joe Walsh "Rocky Mountain Way."

Billy the Mountain
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at December 11, 2025 08:39 AM (vFG9F)

Voodoo Child

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

220 Young women's loneliness drives them to 'cuffing season,'

And anyone who tries talking about pursuing an actual relationship instead of a feel good fling is berated as out of touch or worse.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 08:41 AM (svLOV)

221 Two enchiladas verdes, rice, pinto beans and crema salad nine dollars. Ice tea, dollar fifty. My go to lunch at local restaurant. Not a chain, needless to say.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 08:41 AM (pDt9x)

222 >>You can't expect fourth worlders to integrate into a first world society.

It's worse. They never intended to assimilate and they are happy to tell you so. Their goal is to create a seperate political power structure to take over the west.

Radical Islam is not a movement of coexistence. It is a movement of domination. They are happy to tell you their plan. It's time the west started listening before it's too late.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 08:42 AM (viF8m)

223 Sponge, my best to your woman. I didn't realize she had been through surgery last week.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 08:42 AM (fexSQ)

224 Three plain tacos in the Mission $11
One Jarritos $3

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:43 AM (A0sqA)

225 Sponge, my best to your woman. I didn't realize she had been through surgery last week.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 08:42 AM (fexSQ)

THAT is an error on my part. I mean to type last MONTH. She had surgery mid November.

But, I still appreciate your sentiment. Very much so.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

226 Goal #1 - Do nothing.
Goal #2 - See Goal #1.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 08:40 AM (ESVrU)

I'm going to tell her that my goal was to attend fewer meetings and that I've failed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

227 Those Somalis are a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with them, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at December 11, 2025 08:44 AM (FGMmt)

228 I don't know what impact Trump is going to have in the Cambodian Thai dust up. Thailand has finally had it with encroachment and is pushing back. I hope someone in his administration has some memory of the Vietnam War and all it's precursors.

Posted by: pawn at December 11, 2025 08:44 AM (EMg+d)

229 Trump needs to get Hirsi-Ali on his team.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 11, 2025 08:44 AM (VnsnO)

230 I'm gonna guess that this was supposed to be roach since roasts don't seem out of place at a food processing facility.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)
*****
It was roach infestation. I left it the way Benny tweeted.
With beef prices as high as they are we could use a roast infestation.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

231 224 Three plain tacos in the Mission $11
One Jarritos $3
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:43 AM (A0sqA)

Food truck, or storefront?

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 08:45 AM (pDt9x)

232 Brisket, flavored with Somali testicles . Weird marketing strategy, probably from the Bud Lite wizards

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:45 AM (D+mpw)

233 Justice Thomas grills Russia collusion hoaxer Marc Elias about his rambling campaign finance arguments.

“I still don’t understand what you’re saying.”
____

Handy tip for those explaining their case to USSC -

KBJ: "I don't understand" = she's an idiot
Thomas: "I don't understand" = you're an idiot

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 08:45 AM (Dv3i1)

234 They're taking about melting pots and cultural enrichment and all that nonsense, and meanwhile the lousy bastards ain't even housebroken.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 08:45 AM (Vq1pX)

235 I think the Calibri change during Biden was just laziness

it's the default font for MS

that's all. they were just lazy and didn't care about things looking good.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 08:46 AM (emBoF)

236
210 2 China is a ridiculous thorn in the ass and its high time America finally told it to fuck all the way off.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

True, but China is dangerous, and still too much intertwined with our economy. As the wicked witch said, these things have to be handled delicately.

On the other hand, Venezuela and Cuba are much closer, are also a constant pain in the ass, and far too weak to be actually dangerous. Knock both of them down first and then get back to China.
Cuba should have fallen in 1989 when the rest of the Soviet Bloc did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 08:46 AM (4Vy0D)

237 233 Justice Thomas grills Russia collusion hoaxer Marc Elias about his rambling campaign finance arguments.

it upsets me that the Court even hosts that turd (Elias). he should have swung long ago.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 08:47 AM (emBoF)

238 Storefront place has been there 50 years

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:47 AM (A0sqA)

239 China was involved in that ghost ship, Tom.

someone posted the track of "ownership" on that thing. it was a wild, winding road indeed.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 08:48 AM (emBoF)

240 I think the Calibri change during Biden was just laziness

it's the default font for MS

that's all. they were just lazy and didn't care about things looking good.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 08:46 AM (emBoF)

You'd think that there would be a way to change the default so that poor, overworked diplomats wouldn't have to spend an extra 2 seconds every time they open Word.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:48 AM (ExV1e)

241 Today is International Mountain Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:16 AM

cues up Mississippi Queen

(for bonus points, can you name a second Mountain song without looking it up? me neither)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 08:26 AM (tljrc)

Rocky Top, On Top of Old Smokey, The Bear Went Over the Mountain?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 11, 2025 08:49 AM (uQesX)

242 I don't know what impact Trump is going to have in the Cambodian Thai dust up. Thailand has finally had it with encroachment and is pushing back. I hope someone in his administration has some memory of the Vietnam War and all it's precursors.
Posted by: pawn at December 11, 2025 08:44 AM (EMg+d)
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Unfortunately, Trump owns this now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:49 AM (A0sqA)

243 Clarence Thomas "grilling" Marc Elias. I like that idea in more ways than one

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:50 AM (D+mpw)

244 238 Storefront place has been there 50 years
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:47 AM (A0sqA)

Remember well a mom and pop chinese food joint I frequented. Best Chinese food I have ever eaten. Multi generational. Watched their kids grow up hanging around the restaurant, then start working there. Szechuan and Hunan style.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 08:50 AM (pDt9x)

245 >- Men washing their genitals in the sinks
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Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: Somali Costanza at December 11, 2025 08:50 AM (NgqoH)

246 Hahahahaha.

johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Candace Owens questions why the Trump administration and Erika Kirk never reached out to her to learn more about her theory on the “French Foreign legion” and the “Egyptian planes’” connection to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“Shouldn’t that concern Erika?”

https://tinyurl.com/5yuhb2py

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

247 /rant
It pisses me off that when we finally have an administration that is fixing all the messes that previous admins started/let fester, and is making things better for the citizens, every power center in the US has gone Defcon 1 to stop it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

248 210 you just gave the McTurtle a stroke

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & GOPe at December 11, 2025 08:50 AM (HeR4S)

249 The Ford Maverick has been named Motor Trend's Truck of the Year.

I'm a little shocked by that, especially since they rebranded their mid size 4-door car from the 70's to a truck that seems to be based on what the Ford Ranger was........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

250 A little info on the seized tanker;

It was flying a flag from a country other than that which it was registered in. That's reason enough for it to be boarded and the crew / cargo detained. It is a common ruse the Chinese, Russians, Iranians and anyone else who's trying to circumvent import restrictions or embargos will employ.

A couple weeks ago a Russian flagged tanker was interdicted by the US Navy and turned away from it's course... towards Cuba. It returned to Venezuelan waters. That story just sort of disappeared.

Same ship? Who knows.

The whole point of the US efforts with Maduro right now is to cripple the economy and create the conditions for an organic, native overthrow of his regime. Just like the Democrats try every time they're not in power here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 08:51 AM (NwnyJ)

251 JJ That's bad for any who has to see that. Wow.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 11, 2025 08:52 AM (ZRzmB)

252 247 /rant
It pisses me off that when we finally have an administration that is fixing all the messes that previous admins started/let fester, and is making things better for the citizens, every power center in the US has gone Defcon 1 to stop it.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

Sadly, with our system all of the good works can be undone every four or eight years. Elections are good, and bad.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 08:52 AM (pDt9x)

253 Idiot Pope says Idiot Things -

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (LifeSiteNews) — Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV denounced part of the Trump administration’s peace plan for Ukraine for supposedly trying to split from its alliance with Europe.

During Pope Leo’s brief December 9 remarks, the Pontiff emphasized that, while he hadn’t read the entire peace plan, he was disappointed that the U.S. appears to be trying to “break apart” from its long-standing alliance with Europe by not including them in the negotiations and criticizing their leadership in various interviews.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 08:52 AM (Dv3i1)

254 Remember well a mom and pop chinese food joint I frequented. Best Chinese food I have ever eaten. Multi generational. Watched their kids grow up hanging around the restaurant, then start working there. Szechuan and Hunan style.
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 08:50 AM (pDt9x)
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Sad to say all of that is going away. Their kids do not want to be in the restaurant business. They are in technology, private equity, and real estate. All of those places are closing one-by-one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:52 AM (A0sqA)

255
(for bonus points, can you name a second Mountain song without looking it up? me neither)

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 08:26 AM

Rocky Top, On Top of Old Smokey, The Bear Went Over the Mountain?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 11, 2025 08:49 AM

should have read "...a second song by the band]/b] Mountain..."

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 08:52 AM (tljrc)

256 Dark-Fleet Tanker At Epicenter Of Iran's Shadow Oil Trade Seized By U.S. Commandos

"The Skipper has been repeatedly linked to sanction evasion tactics, including spoofing and mislabeled Iranian cargoes routed through Asia, raising alarms about ongoing maritime deception...."

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

257
oops

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 08:53 AM (tljrc)

258 A new magnetic “quick-release” hijab has been specially engineered for Britain’s growing number of female Muslim police officers, allowing the garment to instantly detach if grabbed during arrests, so that it cannot be used to choke the wearer while still preserving “modesty.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

259 You'd think that there would be a way to change the default so that poor, overworked diplomats wouldn't have to spend an extra 2 seconds every time they open Word.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:48 AM (ExV1e)
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Hey! It's the most productive work they do all day!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 08:54 AM (ESVrU)

260 OT, but even little boys like Hooters

https://tinyurl.com/mrj9sv37

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 08:54 AM (wA+Z+)

261 First there was an International Mountain Day, then there wasn't.

Posted by: Donovan at December 11, 2025 08:54 AM (Q+gd/)

262 I think the Calibri change during Biden was just laziness

it's the default font for MS

that's all. they were just lazy and didn't care about things looking good.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 11, 2025 08:46 AM (emBoF)

Normally I would say it's laziness but if the Left is doing it, it's likely nefarious and worth bucking against. There certainly is an "official" quality to serif fonts that doesn't exist in others. I like the legibility that comes with calibri and segoe ui but it's always worth reversing whatever the Left does so I'm for it.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 08:54 AM (fexSQ)

263 >I get to have my very last goal review meeting today. Yay!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

I've been following your retirement saga. I scheduled my "hey I'm retiring by the end of Q2" meeting with my CIO first week of Jan.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 08:55 AM (NgqoH)

264 London — Sperm from a donor who unknowingly carried a cancer-causing gene has been used to conceive nearly 200 babies across Europe, an investigation by 14 European public service broadcasters, including CBS News' partner network BBC News, has revealed.

Some children conceived using the sperm have already died from cancer, and the vast majority of those who inherited the gene will develop cancer in their lifetimes, geneticists said.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

265 THAT is an error on my part. I mean to type last MONTH. She had surgery mid November.

But, I still appreciate your sentiment. Very much so.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 11, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

Ah well yes, good to know she hasn't had to go through more crap. In any event my best to her and you.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (fexSQ)

266 The Skipper has been repeatedly linked to sanction evasion tactics, including spoofing and mislabeled Iranian cargoes routed through Asia, raising alarms about ongoing maritime deception...."
Posted by: SMOD

He always has that uncharted desert isle where he can hide out, too, complete with Ginger and Maryanne.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

267 Illegal orders = Make your men take this poison jab, no dissent allowed, religious or otherwise

Legal order = fire on that unflagged boat bringing drugs into America

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

268 “Shouldn’t that concern Erika?”

https://tinyurl.com/5yuhb2py
Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)
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I have heard more and more references to Candace as evil, which I'm not sure I would apply to anyone really. Who can know someone's heart but hashem?

But with her I'm willing to consider it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (A0sqA)

269 Ken Burns was just on Maria's show. He's a yutz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (D+mpw)

270 A millennium of wearing the stupid things and you dumbasses still haven't figured out the slip knot. Awesome.

No surprise, i guess, from a people who can't even grasp the concept of indoor plumbing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (Vq1pX)

271 255 Nantucket Sleighride for sure weekly. Mississippi Queen whenever I need to get up quick and get moving.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & GOPe at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (HeR4S)

272 >253 Idiot Pope says Idiot Things -

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Hey kind of forgot that 'render unto Caeser' thing...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (NgqoH)

273 Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 11, 2025 08:52 AM (ZRzmB)

Hello, Sir. Good to see you.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

274 "Candace Owens questions why the Trump administration and Erika Kirk never reached out to her to learn more about her theory on the “French Foreign legion” and the “Egyptian planes’” connection to Charlie Kirk’s assassination."

If she gets any more self-empowered she'll explode. What a psychopath.

Tim Pool's deconstruction of her lies about him were well done.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 11, 2025 08:57 AM (VnsnO)

275 But with her I'm willing to consider it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (A0sqA)

Everyone is evil.

Some people just more noticeably so.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 08:58 AM (Vq1pX)

276 London — Sperm from a donor who unknowingly carried a cancer-causing gene has been used to conceive nearly 200 babies across Europe, an investigation by 14 European public service broadcasters, including CBS News' partner network BBC News, has revealed.

There was a story a while back about a doctor that ran a sperm clinic that just used his own sperm instead of the people he claimed were donors.

The news had the outrage from the mothers that had used his service, which i guess makes sense, but also the children.

But if your father was Random John instead of Doctor Skeevey you'd be a different person not you...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 08:58 AM (sKqQm)

277 Legal order = fire on that unflagged boat bringing drugs into America
____

Yeah, but I feeeeeelll like that is illegal, or should be.
-Retarded Liberal Seaman Apprentice

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 08:58 AM (Dv3i1)

278 269 Ken Burns was just on Maria's show. He's a yutz
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (D+mpw)

I liked his Civil War series. It seems he took the Stephen Iing Road. Never take the Stephen King Road.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 08:58 AM (pDt9x)

279 There [were] so many people coming to us"

Laugh, I thought I'd die...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 08:58 AM (XuXeR)

280 Ken Burns was just on Maria's show. He's a yutz
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (D+mpw)
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We turned her off.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:58 AM (A0sqA)

281 I have heard more and more references to Candace as evil, which I'm not sure I would apply to anyone really. Who can know someone's heart but hashem?

But with her I'm willing to consider it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 08:56 AM (A0sqA)
*******
There's always an exception to every rule.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

282 During Pope Leo’s brief December 9 remarks, the Pontiff emphasized that, while he hadn’t read the entire peace plan, he was disappointed that the U.S. appears to be trying to “break apart” from its long-standing alliance with Europe by not including them in the negotiations and criticizing their leadership in various interviews.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 08:52 AM (Dv3i1)

Trump responded that, while he hadn’t read all of the pontiffs remarks, he was disappointed that the Pope was spending so much time commenting on shit which was outside his area of concern.*

* I may have made this up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

283 Re Cambodia and Thailand: Why can't these little shithole countries just sit down with a map and draw a boundary line that everyone can agree on?

"OK, you want this little shithole village? Fine, it's yours. We want this little shithole village, any objection? Fine, it's ours."

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

284 More than 85 percent of the utilities surveyed confidentially by research group Strider Technologies are using inverter devices made by companies with ties to the Chinese government and military. Many cybersecurity experts warn that the devices are vulnerable to hacking that can set off cascading outages.

gleen enerly

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

285 There's always an exception to every rule.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)
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Even Rule #1?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 09:00 AM (ESVrU)

286 I paid no attention to Candace Owens when she was a thing and an equal amount now. However reading what everyone here and elsewhere are saying , the Nemesis awaiting her will be ugly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:00 AM (D+mpw)

287 >Even Rule #1?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 09:00 AM (ESVrU)

You just have to accept you're going to ride the ride once you punch the ticket.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 09:01 AM (NgqoH)

288 Every food processing plant is subject to FDA inspection. I would be looking to see who bought off the inspector

Posted by: Ben Had at December 11, 2025 09:01 AM (sDNVV)

289 There's always an exception to every rule.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)
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Even Rule #1?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 09:00 AM (ESVrU)

Heather Graham is my exception

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 09:01 AM (KDPiq)

290 "OK, you want this little shithole village? Fine, it's yours. We want this little shithole village, any objection? Fine, it's ours."
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)
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Le Duc Tho, is that you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 09:02 AM (A0sqA)

291 Honestly, before he was murdered Charlie Kirk was not on my radar at all.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 09:02 AM (pDt9x)

292 With Candace and Tucker, my first instinct is that someone got them with money or threats. But maybe it's as simple as they were always whacked, and for a brief moment in time, their whackedness lined up with mine.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 11, 2025 09:02 AM (Dv3i1)

293 Even Rule #1?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 11, 2025 09:00 AM (ESVr
******
Yep.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

294 I've been following your retirement saga. I scheduled my "hey I'm retiring by the end of Q2" meeting with my CIO first week of Jan.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 08:55 AM (NgqoH)

Congrats! One thing I've learned having given 10.5 weeks of notice is that I wish I'd given 4.5 weeks of notice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

295 Any response to Pope Kyle should be to ask what he's doing about the genocide of Christians in Muslim lands and to get back to us when he's solved that problem

Posted by: 18-1 at December 11, 2025 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

296 Europe is still reeling from Donald Trump’s decision to label the continent “decaying” and its leaders “weak”. But are the likes of Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron doing much to disabuse the US president of this notion?
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The Brit newspaper Telegraph agrees with Trump.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 09:04 AM (153Lh)

297
I did not know that, among his many fatuous titles, the Bishop of Rome had laid claim to "Defender of the NATO".

Zombie Henry VIII smiles about that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 11, 2025 09:05 AM (xG4kz)

298 Sounds like the dudes in jaunty hats who yell things like de oppresso liber have either been slacking off over there, or getting their orders from some severely vaccinated people in the five sided nuthouse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 09:05 AM (Vq1pX)

299 >>Pope Kyle

Pope Bob, Kyle's not here.

Posted by: The Vatican at December 11, 2025 09:06 AM (Y1sOo)

300 Europe has been decaying since just prior to WWI . Everything since has just been formalized destruction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:06 AM (D+mpw)

301 Pope Bob, Kyle's not here."

Dave's not here either...

Posted by: man at December 11, 2025 09:06 AM (XuXeR)

302 >Congrats! One thing I've learned having given 10.5 weeks of notice is that I wish I'd given 4.5 weeks of notice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

Thanks. Mrs. Meta told me I should be prepared to be walked out of the building. I responded I can pack anything I care about into a small cardboard box and be out in three minutes. I am opting to give 6 months - I am in a very niche role and finding a back fill might take a bit of time. Taking the high road. My company has been very good to me.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 09:07 AM (NgqoH)

303 There's always an exception to every rule.
Posted by: redridinghood

Even Rule #1?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Yes. As long as you use Garrett's name.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:08 AM (hS7lz)

304 Newsom Posts AI Slop Video of Trump, Hegseth, and Miller in Handcuffs — Despite Championing Anti-Deep Fake Laws

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 09:08 AM (RHGPo)

305 I have always pointed out that we have had multiple periods in our history where it looked like we were headed in the wrong direction and soon be finished. The 60’s and early 70’s being one of those periods. The present always looks worse to the people than what has occurred in the past.

That said , I have to admit that I don’t believe there have been so many political leaders ever that openly express their hatred of America as there is today.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 09:09 AM (KDPiq)

306 World War I was the mortal wound for Europe, as comment 300 indicates. Besides the blood letting it destroyed the spirits of their best.

Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 09:09 AM (pDt9x)

307 María Corina Machado Escapes Venezuela in Speedboat via the Curacao Route to Attend Her Nobel Peace Prize Awards Ceremony

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

308 Fire on the mountain, lightning in the air
Gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there

Posted by: muldoon at December 11, 2025 09:09 AM (/iMjX)

309 For what it may be worth to you, and the settle a bet, Mountain did a great version of Jack Bruce and Pete Brown's "Theme for An Imaginary Western." So that's three.

There were two sports scandals at Michigan State. One involved that Olympic training doctor, the other was thuggery among the football players. We're nestled between Columbus and Ann Arbor, so malcontents here wish a pox on both houses, and used to say that MSU was the "quality" program in Michigan. So that one really hurt. The CMU Chippies are still pretty stout fellows.

I don't see how the NCAA noble-savage mythos of the "student athlete" survives the transfer portal and NIL. I grew up anti-Sport, and may have to go back to it. This will go down hard because my wife is commissioner of a fantasy league.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 11, 2025 09:09 AM (zdLoL)

310 @308 muldoon , thx for the Marshall Tucker reference

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:11 AM (D+mpw)

311 In the spirit of the holidays, we need boobies in the art thread.

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lactation of the women.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 09:11 AM (1zOXE)

312 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Minneapolis Mayor Frey: "I was the first one to let the IsIamic call to prayer, 5x per day"

https://tinyurl.com/2p9tx9cc

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

313 The intelligence service of Denmark, a NATO ‘ally’ currently under the rule of left-liberal globalists, has caused quite the stir across Europe and the globe after it labeled the United States as a potential security concern, a stunning shift for a country long conditioned to defer to NATO orthodoxy.

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

314 If you don't want someone to actually read what you've written, you use a Sans Serif font. The end tends to skim over the letters when they don't have the little marks to link them together. Calibri is sans serif, Times Roman is serif.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 11, 2025 09:11 AM (+mUZM)

315 I think the murder of the Romanovs is where Europe started to slide

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at December 11, 2025 09:11 AM (ZxPkt)

316 Speaking of Popes, here's a picture of Pope Benedict as a little boy and what he wrote for Advent. From nc register site:

https://tinyurl.com/2jxyj67u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 09:12 AM (Nx5jP)

317 World War I was the mortal wound for Europe, as comment 300 indicates. Besides the blood letting it destroyed the spirits of their best.
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 09:09 AM (pDt9x)

Europe had been in continuous war since European countries were created. I think the Cold War was the longest period of no war .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 09:12 AM (KDPiq)

318 Batshit Crazy Michigan Dem Rep Files Impeachment Articles Against RFK Jr., Accuses Him of Abandoning “Science” and Endangering Americans

Posted by: SMOD at December 11, 2025 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

319 I am in a very niche role and finding a back fill might take a bit of time. Taking the high road. My company has been very good to me.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 09:07 AM (NgqoH)

That was me. Company wasn't as good to me as it could have been but it was good enough.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

320 @312 Frey doesn't seem to A) realize he's Jewish and B) his fate when the Muzzies take over

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:14 AM (D+mpw)

321 Current temp in west metro Denver is 63F

this is December, right?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at December 11, 2025 09:15 AM (ZxPkt)

322 Speaking of Popes, here's a picture of Pope Benedict as a little boy and what he wrote for Advent. From nc register site:

https://tinyurl.com/2jxyj67u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 09:12 AM (Nx5jP)
******
I wish he had been pope for a longer time.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

323 When are we going to get a pope that isn't a benchwarmer? Up your game, padre!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 09:16 AM (1zOXE)

324 World War I was the mortal wound for Europe, as comment 300 indicates. Besides the blood letting it destroyed the spirits of their best.
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 09:09 AM (pDt9x)

Read a book about the Battle of the Somme. It was pure madness… not really war, it was mass murder. Because of the way the BEF was organized, the young boys/men of entire communities were wiped out in a matter of hours. That Haig guy, not sure how he could live with himself

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 09:16 AM (5MZNC)

325 Down South we are going to be 70 for a high but going to get the polar vortex come Monday and have a brief period below freezing .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 09:17 AM (KDPiq)

326 >>There were two sports scandals at Michigan State. One involved that Olympic training doctor

The doctor, Larry Nassar, was not employed by MSU's athletic department. He was employed by the university's department of medicine. It wasn't a "sports scandal."

Posted by: one hour sober at December 11, 2025 09:18 AM (Y1sOo)

327 Thur Hi 64 down here by the bay.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:18 AM (gbOdA)

328 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 11, 2025 09:16 AM (5MZNC)

The perfect storm of advanced weaponry and old school tactics.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 09:18 AM (KDPiq)

329 >323 When are we going to get a pope that isn't a benchwarmer? Up your game, padre!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 09:16 AM (1zOXE)

When all you have are Cardinals Euroweenie and American Commies to choose from this is what you get. I wanted the pipe hittin' African Cardinal to be elected.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 09:18 AM (NgqoH)

330 Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

He did seem like a very erudite and caring man of faith.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 09:19 AM (Nx5jP)

331 Dana Loesch put together a montage of Tucker asserting he's never met people or doesn't know them coupled with clips of him talking to them on his show. Likewise, he often alleges he knows people like Bill Ackman but in fact has never met them.

He lied about his father in the CIA and told a very detailed and dramatic story about a plane crash he was in that was a lie.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 11, 2025 09:19 AM (VnsnO)

332 “We’re the only great country that lets other people just come in without vetting them and deciding whether they’re really going to help the economy of America,” Lutnick said Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“Let’s bring in the top of the best,” he said. “Let’s help them grow America and build America. Why should we take people who are below average? It just doesn’t make any sense.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:19 AM (gbOdA)

333 Europe had been in continuous war since European countries were created.

I think the Cold War was the longest period of no war .
Posted by: the way I see it

That's because those that could war were dead, thanks to I & II.

Those that couldn't/wouldn't war were all that was left.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:20 AM (hS7lz)

334 That Haig guy, not sure how he could live with himself
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

A lot of memoirs were written by the leaders afterward in an attempt to shift the blame for what happened.

Give Churchill credit. He was not mostly to blame for the Gallipoli disaster, but he took the blame for it, resigned from the government, and went off to the trenches of the Western Front. You'd never see that kind of thing today.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

335 Tucker Stossel et al believe their own shit

Someone I work on daily not to do.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)

336 There's a dragon with matches
loose on the town
Take a whole pail of water
just to cool him down
Fire, fire on the mountain

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

337 something not someone

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:22 AM (gbOdA)

338 Ultimate proof that AI is a crazy bubble has arrived, as Disney announces it is investing $1 billion it doesn't have in OpenAI and signing up to allow it's IP be used in the ChatGPT "Sora" image generation tool.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 11, 2025 09:22 AM (plCXF)

339 You can't want a flood of illegals AND bitch about the economy or the country. You get one or the other.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 09:23 AM (fexSQ)

340 @324 Linus, in the early nineties I had a legal secretary from England, about 60 years old . One day she asked if I had been watching the PBS documentary on WW I. I said yes and she asked if they covered the Battle of the Somme last night. I said yes and she said good I taped it last night. I asked about her interest and responded ' well you see my father's eldest brother Reggie was killed in the first day of the Somme. My response "huh?". He died fifteen years before she was born. I am a history head, but that blew me away

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 09:23 AM (D+mpw)

341 > Down South we are going to be 70 for a high but going to get the polar vortex come Monday and have a brief period below freezing .
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Here in KY...
Saturday night - 6F
Sunday - 14F
Sunday night - 1F

And it ain't even winter yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 11, 2025 09:24 AM (NwnyJ)

342 JetBlue unveils first ever airport lounge, BlueHouse. Here’s what’s inside

I imagine it is a cross between a WaHo and Mels Dinner with more surly waitresses and EBT customers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:24 AM (gbOdA)

343 That Congresswoman Steven’s is another goblin-faced chubster just like Slotkin and Tliab. Michigan is not sending their best.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 11, 2025 09:24 AM (R86kT)

344 Morn' all...Just wondering if Stateless has been around.. I think that's the name... He had a problem with his brother over a house ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 09:26 AM (VE6XX)

345 He did seem like a very erudite and caring man of faith.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 09:19 AM (Nx5jP)
******
Yes.
I do pray that Pope Leo gets red-pilled as to how evil the Democrats are. He first needs to be shown how the Democrats are destroying families and children by pushing gender ideology on them and sexualizing them in school.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

346 >342 JetBlue unveils first ever airport lounge, BlueHouse. Here’s what’s inside

I imagine it is a cross between a WaHo and Mels Dinner with more surly waitresses and EBT customers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 09:24 AM (gbOdA)

I flew JetBlue out of PHL once. It was...something.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 11, 2025 09:27 AM (NgqoH)

347 Trump needs to get his ass over there to the Vatican and get the Pope rolling in the right direction. It has to happen.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 09:27 AM (1zOXE)

348 Posted by: redridinghood at December 11, 2025 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

Yes indeed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 09:28 AM (ix8EF)

349 They weren't gonna let any normal pope in. It was never gonna happen. Chicago was the clue.

Posted by: ... at December 11, 2025 09:28 AM (fexSQ)

350 Some elected GOP shitheels are wondering why the turnout in the Miami mayoral race was so low. Gee, I wonder why.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 09:28 AM (abIsI)

351 Sure, there's a lot of craziness in the news. But the GOP will save the Republic at midterms!

* ducks *

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 11, 2025 09:28 AM (pd4dZ)

352 Morn' all...Just wondering if Stateless has been around.. I think that's the name... He had a problem with his brother over a house ?
Posted by: It's me donna

That issue got resolved in his favor (he got the house). He has been pretty upbeat since then as a result. Haven't seen him here in a few days, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

353
That issue got resolved in his favor (he got the house). He has been pretty upbeat since then as a result. Haven't seen him here in a few days, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

That's why I asked..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 11, 2025 09:29 AM (VE6XX)

354 During a recent interview with the far-Left Daily Beast, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), one of six Democrat lawmakers who collaborated on the infamous video telling service members they have a duty to refuse “unlawful orders,” made an extraordinary claim.

------------

Next you'll be telling me that another one of the Seditious Six is the wife of treasonous traitor Jake Sullivan.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 09:29 AM (enCV9)

355 Cold broad up

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (hS7lz)

356 347 Trump needs to get his ass over there to the Vatican and get the Pope rolling in the right direction. It has to happen.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Send Melania over with the jawbone of an ass in her hand to beat his face in if he doesn't listen to reason.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 11, 2025 09:31 AM (abIsI)

357 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

358 The Supreme Court Should Overturn Wong Kim Ark

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Sum Ting Wong > Wong Kim Ark

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 11, 2025 09:33 AM (enCV9)

359 He was employed by the university's department of medicine.

You go to hell. He was employed by the US Olympic Committee, and my daughter is a member of an Olympic team.
Shut up and sit down. It was a sports scandal, dickless.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 11, 2025 09:37 AM (zdLoL)

360 The same media that yelled “CHEAP FAKES” about videos showing Joetato being a dementia patient uses unnamed sources to lie about any and all people associated with POTUS Trump.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 09:48 AM (xvV+O)

361 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

"...President determined to thwart the influx of deadly fentanyl and other narcotics from overseas..." 👍

The tip of the iceberg, locally -
CBP officers seize nearly 7 lbs. of meth at Delco (Pa) shipping facility. 5 days ago (Shipment heading to the Netherlands)

FBI, Philadelphia police conduct gang, drug trafficking bust in Kensington (a decade long operation distributing Fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin.) Oct. 25

Delaware (state) detectives and the FBI have seized a significant fentanyl stash in a major drug bust, likely saving lives. June '25

6 arrested after undercover drug operation in Delaware County. Mar 2025 (Cocaine)

The local Health Department (a C19 funding creation): DELCO REVIVE! - LEARN TO SAVE A LIFE WITH NARCAN, TEST STRIPS, AND TRAINING.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (NFX2v)

362 Slotkin, a progressive political creation, a front, a Democratic Party efforts to both sway & control military, veteran votes.

New Republic, February 11, 2020, 'Pete Buttigieg and the Democrats’ Veteran Problem'
For years, the party has pushed for lackluster military candidates and a "camouflage wave." In 2020, many veterans on the left have different ideas.

Open Secrets, VoteVets.org, Independent Expenditures 2024

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (NFX2v)

363 Outside of the mainstream media -

>Facebook - Vets for Slotkin, 337 followers, 34 following

>Kyland Young Instagram reposted by Slotkin -
1d
(in part) Last month, the day after Veterans Day, I had the opportunity to meet with Senator Slotkin at a town hall hosted by @votevets. Since caring for veterans shouldn’t begin and end on a holiday — and so many hosted by @votevets. Since caring for veterans shouldn’t begin and end on a holiday — and so many need support throughout the year! 235 likes

Kyland Young is a young influencer normally with a large following.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (NFX2v)

Daily Tech News 11 December 2025

Top Story

Had a thunderstorm roll through last night and some of the lightning strikes came pretty close, but it passed without event. Or so I thought.

When I went to turn off the lights in the kitchen, it got very dark and very quiet. The only light remaining was the clock on the oven; everything else had lost power. And when I went downstairs to reset the breaker, it wasn't having it.

Put the fridge on an extension cord overnight - the rest of the house had power - and left it for the morning.

This morning I unplugged absolutely everything, reset the breaker - which now accepted its fate - and plugged things in again one at a time, waiting for it all to go phut.

Got down to the bar fridge and the dishwasher, which are on the same plug somehow. Took a deep breath, and plugged them in.

They work. Everything works.

I dunno.
Operation Bluebird wants to steal Twitter's trademark from Twitter. (The Verge) (archive site)
We have built a social platform that will look familiar to those that used legacy Twitter, but with new tools that provide a safer experience and empower the user to decide what types of content they engage in.
It's a hugbox for crazies.

Like Bluesky. But we already have Bluesky. For now; it's dying pretty swiftly.
Intellectual property attorney Douglas Masters says he is doubtful that Operation Bluebird's claims will be successful. "I don't know that the record ultimately will show that even though they [X Corp.] switched to X, that they intended to give up all of their commercial use and rights in the word Twitter," Masters tells The Verge.
Well, yeah. You can go to twitter.com right now and it works.

Tech News

Is it a bubble? (Oaktree Capital)

A whole lot of words to say "yes".
Cryptographers have proved that AI security will always have holes. (Quanta)
In a recent paper, researchers found one of the more delightful ways to bypass artificial intelligence security systems: Rephrase your nefarious prompt as a poem.
It's a bit like saying colanders will always have holes. Yes. We know.
Amazon has changed the way DRM is applied to self-published ebooks... For the better. (Tech Crunch)

If you choose not to apply DRM, Amazon now allows the author to select open formats like EPUB and PDF
Meet the world's smallest AI supercomputer. (WCCFTech)

It's pocket-sized - or at least coat pocket sized - and has a custom 12 core ARM processor, an NPU capable of 190 trillion operations per second, and 80GB of RAM.

It will be shown off at CES. No pricing yet, but 80GB of RAM suddenly costs a fair bit of money.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: And more, much more than this, I did it my way, or no way at all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 04:01 AM (sQBXy)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

3 st

Posted by: a dude in MI at December 11, 2025 04:02 AM (+I6Y/)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

5 Nice score, BD!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:02 AM (RuTUS)

6 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 11, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

7 Pixy how are the kids making out under their overlords in Australia?

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 04:03 AM (Ia/+0)

8 Good morning.

"Look on my Works, ye Vegemighty, and despair!"

-- Aussiemandias

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 11, 2025 04:03 AM (4/ps2)

9 >>>This morning I unplugged absolutely everything ... and plugged things in again.... Everything works.

Like the man says!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

10
I'm mystified by the un-Twitter that wants to be Twitter. Like, they want to be mistaken for Twitter for purposes of gathering accounts, except that they don't want anyone to mistake them for Twitter.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 11, 2025 04:08 AM (1N/bM)

11 Yay, a Fluffy Nuggets, Jr., sighting!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:08 AM (RuTUS)

12 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 04:15 AM (MmTZZ)

13 Loverboy - Turn Me Loose

MPPPP will be liking some of the B&W clips in the video!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:17 AM (RuTUS)

14 7 Pixy how are the kids making out under their overlords in Australia?
Posted by: Skip

They've either learned that the controls only exist on apps, not on the web, or they're going crazy and calling the mental health support lines.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 11, 2025 04:17 AM (BLOW1)

15 Loverboy - Turn Me Loose

He is really singing his heart out.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:19 AM (RuTUS)

16 I saw Loverboy live at Killian's in Ybor City (Tampa). Around 1995 or so. They were REALLY good. I was kind of surprised. By the time 1995 rolled around, there time had long since passed. Still, they put on a hell of a show and sounded fantastic.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 04:24 AM (MmTZZ)

17 I have a friend going through a divorce and I believe that song would resonate in a good way.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:27 AM (RuTUS)

18 16 I saw Loverboy live at Killian's in Ybor City (Tampa).
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 04:24 AM (MmTZZ)

They're on tour!

https://loverboyband.com/pages/tour

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:29 AM (RuTUS)

19 They've either learned that the controls only exist on apps, not on the web,
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 11, 2025 04:17 AM (BLOW1)

One of the lessons of the social media era was that a lot of .com bloggers and content providers went “in-house” at Facebook, Twitter etc. and suddenly became very susceptible to censorship and content moderation. They lost their independence and frequently were deplatformed. I wonder if the new censorship regime will drive creators back to creating their own websites to avoid that fate?

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 11, 2025 04:30 AM (km+Lu)

20 Hence another nugget from the same era

https://tinyurl.com/57n9upah

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 11, 2025 04:34 AM (km+Lu)

21 20 Hence another nugget from the same era

https://tinyurl.com/57n9upah
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 11, 2025 04:34 AM (km+Lu)

They (38 Special) are also on tour!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:44 AM (RuTUS)

22 Woman overcomes her grumbling and anger by a new way of praying. James 4:6-10:

https://tinyurl.com/4djd7j2p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 04:44 AM (looXz)

23 I wonder if the new censorship regime will drive creators back to creating their own websites to avoid that fate?

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 11, 2025 04:30 AM (km+Lu)

We'd probably already be at that point, for conservatives/right, if Elon hadn't bought Twitter.

Before then, the trend was to create "freedom of speech" social media alternatives like Gab, Parler, Truth Social, Rumble, etc.

As AI gets better at creating websites, I suspect people will go back to blogging more, like Substack has been pretty successful at.

If we could somehow create a standardized system of federated/p2p ways to do social media, like Bluesky and Mastadon do, then people could create their own blog/social media portal for themselves that can't be blocked by corps or governments as easily.

Instead people will have to individually block users they don't want to interact with. Which is the way it should be instead of faceless corp/gov moderators doing all the banning based on political correctness and expediency.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 04:45 AM (6ydKt)

24 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Yeah, I'm still up - I figure I am too wound up tonight to sleep. Not scared or anything like that - I have had so many surgeries in my lifetime that there really isn't any fear associated with it any more.

Plus, since I have a medical port, I won't have to have an IV, which is ALWAYS the part that I dread. I have tiny baby veins, and the pre-op folks can never get an IV to work on me.

One time I woke up to find that the OR staff had relocated the IV in my foot! I think the vein in my arm had blown not long after they knocked me out....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 04:46 AM (SRRAx)

25 Miracle at the airport . Fairhpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/ykbzbynz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 04:49 AM (looXz)

26
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 11, 2025 04:50 AM (tljrc)

27 Good morning. TIFW😊

Will be praying for you and your medical team today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 04:50 AM (looXz)

28 >>>It's a hugbox for crazies.

Good idea to have them all in one place, maybe. Well, not "all," but "many."

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:50 AM (RuTUS)

29 Morning all. Prayers Teresa.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2025 05:04 AM (cNcja)

30 Never heard of a foot IV, but then medical operations are not my Forte

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)

31 I am reading a lovely book for Advent and Christmas called "Jesus Listens" by Sarah Young.
She says in one devotional that she searches for signs of the Lord's presence everyday. "Sometimes You communicate with me in grand, unmissable ways-"Coincidences that are clearly the work of Your hands.At other times I get more subtle glimpses of you. These are often so personal that other people wouldn't even notice them. Yet these
Subtle signs bring me profound joy. "

The more attentive I am , the more I can find You in the details of my day. So please help me to stay alert- being on the lookout for for delightful displays of your presence ."

She also reads scripture where she sees God most clearly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 05:13 AM (lQ+/f)

32 Killian's in Ybor City (Tampa), LoverBoy. Everytime I listen to the musical interlude before the comments I get that feeling that time is marching on. I used to hang out in Ybor City and had a good time everytime. Now I think most of the music I know is unknown to the youngsters of today. We are or soon to be just a cranky old man, saying 'back in the day'. I don't even know what music is popular today like in the days of good music videos on MTV.

Posted by: Colin at December 11, 2025 05:14 AM (wlQdF)

33 Hit that Twitter link for fun and first thing that popped up for me was a video of US commandos being dropped on a Venezuelan oil rig and taking it over. This is big; the US is cutting off all of Maduro's external income.
Those who've been crying that Trump is going to invade Venezuela don't understand at all; there's no need for a physical invasion. Cut off all their financial lifelines, which are just Oil and Drugs, and Maduro will fall.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 05:14 AM (ZvtE+)

34 Clear and windy, was howling some when I got up

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 05:16 AM (Ia/+0)

35 Good morning from the GPROMD where it's in the 30s and the wind is making attempts to bypass my coat. Today is the end of my work week as tomorrow is the company party and I could not see the logic of making several trips during the day.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 05:17 AM (svLOV)

36
30 Never heard of a foot IV, but then medical operations are not my Forte
Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)

Wife had one put in the back of her hand once; that left behind bruising for about 2 or 3 weeks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 05:17 AM (ZvtE+)

37 Maduro's palace is right next door to the Venezuelan national bank. He probably has a secret tunnel right into the vault so he can help himself when ever he needs some more gold. Going to be hard to get rid of him. Maybe I watch to many James Bond movies.

Posted by: Colin at December 11, 2025 05:21 AM (wlQdF)

38 From the Verge article:

A post on Operation Bluebird’s LinkedIn page suggests the startup would use AI for fact-checking and moderation.

This is already proving to be a huge problem on YouTube with AI taking out videos left and right that had no real basis to be removed.

They're going to make this move based on some theory that AI is not biased, which is BS as they've all been trained on internet data and a lot of academic papers.

AI's entire 'brains' are filled to the brim with leftist mush and they'll act accordingly based on whatever moral, ethical, and legal values it's trained on - so yeah, AI-AWFLs is what you'll end up with moderating the internet.

Even Grok isn't immune to left-wing bias.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 05:24 AM (6ydKt)

39 Apparently, yesterday the House voted to get rid of one of Trump's EOs. Does anyone know which one?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 05:25 AM (ExV1e)

40 About 7 hours ago, my notebook decided to stop charging the battery. Down to 10%. Oh shit. Tried the usual stuff. No go.

WTF? Bad power supply? Bad connector? This sucks.

Completely disconnected everything, powered down, plugged in power supply. Powered up 30 minutes later. Now it's charging.

Next up, I suspect will be my iPhone 8. Time to bite the checkbook and begin upgrading.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 05:28 AM (1zOXE)

41 Trump is not lethal. Everybody has figured that out so all they need to do is wait.

Posted by: Accomack at December 11, 2025 05:31 AM (/Chlc)

42 Next up, I suspect will be my iPhone 8. Time to bite the checkbook and begin upgrading.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 05:28 AM (1zOXE)

iPhone 8? Respect. I usually upgrade every six years when the wife's electronics start to die.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 05:32 AM (ExV1e)

43 I feel Turned Loose now. Now for some coffee to maintain it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 05:33 AM (0ZmKh)

44 Good morning.

I woke up and decided that I wanted to understand the legal justification for the tanker seizure.

"You've been a bad tanker!"

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 05:33 AM (W7XSX)

45 Now, we have a tanker and sailors that get to be lawyered up and adjudicated.
Just fly a drone into the fucking thing like everyone else.

Posted by: Accomack at December 11, 2025 05:35 AM (T8bqm)

46 Prayers ascending for Teresa.

Posted by: fly gal at December 11, 2025 05:37 AM (lDvhi)

47 Loverboy? Tread lightly, if I remember correctly, Ace has this thing about Loverboy, and no doubt Garrett plays into this equation somewhere.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 05:37 AM (1zOXE)

48 >>>They work. Everything works.

I dunno...

You may have too many motors on the same circuit. Motors cause 500%-2000% current draw on startup, called "inrush current". Only lasting a few milliseconds, but long enough to pop the breaker.

Turn the motors on one at a time, which you did, and voila.

I read your posts every day PM. Nerds rule.

Posted by: eyesky at December 11, 2025 05:39 AM (ARJcl)

49 G'mornin' everyone!

just replaced the battery in Mrs Eez's iPhone 8 a few weeks ago.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2025 05:40 AM (Cjt/F)

50 41 Trump is not lethal. Everybody has figured that out so all they need to do is wait.
Posted by: Accomack at December 11, 2025 05:31 AM (/Chlc)

He runs things up the flagpole.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 05:43 AM (RuTUS)

51 just replaced the battery in Mrs Eez's iPhone 8 a few weeks ago.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

No small feat! I did that once- 5gs?- holy cow you have to have fine motor skills. Those are the tiniest connectors.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 05:44 AM (0ZmKh)

52 Psalm 16:11-

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 05:44 AM (7RYym)

53 A US judge issued a warrant allowing the seizure of that tanker 2 weeks ago, for helping Iran to violate sanctions a couple years back, i believe.

And no,, you do not want to blow up a ship carrying over a million barrels of oil. Besides the environmental catastrophe, that's throwing over 60 million dollars worth of cargo away for nothing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 05:45 AM (YJ3wl)

54 It’s bad enough getting BS from a human being but there is something particularly annoying about computers that have incorporated 100% outright nonsense into a declarative assertion of fact, idiots always want the “last word” and apparently intend for computer algorithms to do it for them on a constant basis.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 05:46 AM (F3yTM)

55 Those are the tiniest connectors.
——-

I was more impressed with the hold down fasteners. 2 different size screws, barely large enough to see without a magnifier. Do not drop them, or forget it. I can’t even imagine how they are manufactured.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 05:50 AM (F3yTM)

56 The tech thread. Appropriate. Could not get my pain med asked for just after midnight. They ere blaming hospital HAL. Doesn't help me any, and Tylenol don't do shit.
Grab a good day, someone, my isn't being used

Posted by: From about That Time at December 11, 2025 05:52 AM (GaiW2)

57 Kind action by a high school football player. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/33vd9xm7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 05:52 AM (7RYym)

58 54 It’s bad enough getting BS from a human being but there is something particularly annoying about computers that have incorporated 100% outright nonsense into a declarative assertion of fact
Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 05:46 AM (F3yTM)

"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 05:52 AM (RuTUS)

59 57-Meant "Sunny Skyz" site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 05:55 AM (7RYym)

60 56 The tech thread. Appropriate. Could not get my pain med asked for just after midnight. They ere blaming hospital HAL. Doesn't help me any, and Tylenol don't do shit.
Grab a good day, someone, my isn't being used
Posted by: From about That Time at December 11, 2025 05:52 AM (GaiW2)

Will do!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 05:56 AM (RuTUS)

61 Your breaker may have been damaged by the lightning surge. You might want to get it checked before it fails.

Posted by: nraendowment at December 11, 2025 05:59 AM (CdNQR)

62 Good paper on the AI boom.

It's laid out well with all the history on booms, the pros and cons of currently investing in AI, and at the end some very pointed questions about how this will affect society due to unemployment from AI taking over certain jobs.

It's a massive bubble, yes, but previous bubbles have shaped the world as we know it, and AI has the potential to change the world like no other previous technological advancement and at a much faster pace than ever before.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 05:59 AM (6ydKt)

63
Good morning, Hordians. An interesting day for Her Majesty and The Big Dummy. TBD doesn't get shown until 2:15 today but Her Majesty will be in AKC Delegate meetings all day. Dummy's co-owner will be taking care of him today, but I have no idea who's grooming him for the ring.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 06:01 AM (tgvbd)

64 In the distance- Genesis 37:8

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/4kcyh46v

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 06:03 AM (7RYym)

65 Good morning, everyone. Actually got some decent sleep last night, though as always I'd love to have more. Hope you all have a great Thursday.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 11, 2025 06:04 AM (WPL6O)

66 Good luck to Big Dummy so he can start a new winning streak.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 06:08 AM (6ydKt)

67 Breakers can get weak due to age, tripping prematurely, they wear out basically.

Good to “exercise” them. Snap them open & closed when the main breaker is off. Tough to get quality electrical parts these days.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 06:08 AM (F3yTM)

68 Evening to Pixy with his gremlin-laden electricity (a bar fridge? Wow, sounds like Sinatra in Vegas in the Fifties!), and morning to others just staggering out of bed or up early for ungodly reasons. I managed to clock almost seven hours' sleep last night, and was dreaming something -- though I can't recall anything of it -- when Stirling began walking on me and trilling.

They're fed, I'm drinking coffee. What more d'ya want?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

69 heh

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
13h
"Calibri font. Bad font. A nasty font. It should have never been an official font, but the auto-pen, as I like to call him wanted it. So we're getting rid of it."

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 06:11 AM (RuTUS)

70 I don't recall "Turn Me Loose" when it was new, but I've been hearing it on the '80s oldies FM station here. Had no idea who performed it.

We had one station for a while which broadcast the artist and title onto my in-car "stereo" (old-fashioned word) as each song played. That was great, but that one's gone. The station I listen to repeats the station call letters, frequency, and slogan, plus a one-line ad for whoever has bought that segment of time -- usually some injury lawyer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

71 I just read the ONT, so I will comment further on low grade crude oil.
Several 29s ago J. paul Getty was a famous billionaire. He built his wealth by purchasing low grade crude at such a price that the extra refining cost was well worth it.
As a teenager, I worked at one of his “ Flying A” gas stations, before the chain was acquired by Mobil.

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 11, 2025 06:13 AM (1FEc1)

72 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 11, 2025 06:14 AM (2Ez/1)

73 68 They're fed, I'm drinking coffee.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

Kitty cats working for the US government?!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 06:15 AM (RuTUS)

74 Apparently, yesterday the House voted to get rid of one of Trump's EOs. Does anyone know which one?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 05:25 AM (ExV1e)

Story I saw said it was one regarding Fed unions, but I did not read it, and I don't recall the EO in the first instance.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 11, 2025 06:16 AM (dK+Kv)

75
"Calibri font. Bad font. A nasty font."

I use Calibri 11 in all my spreadsheets. But I've always been a low-life loser.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 06:16 AM (tgvbd)

76 Today I need to call the pipe-and-cigar shop to see if they will hold the monthly Pipe Club meeting tonight. I think 12/11 was the day they had announced last month. Naturally I don't want to drive all the way out there only to find it's next Thursday.

Otherwise, not much on tap today. Miss Linda thinks she is coming down with a cold. I gave her some ivermectin and took some myself, just to be safe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

77 @9 m.
I unplugged everything and plugged it back in again.

That's what I do to my computer when it goes down.
Hey, it works most times.

Posted by: Case at December 11, 2025 06:18 AM (G1OIb)

78 They're fed, I'm drinking coffee.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025
*
Kitty cats working for the US government?!
Posted by: m at December 11, 2025

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I *wish* they were on the govt. payroll. Even having them paid only in cat food would be nice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

79 Good to see that amazon is finally playing nice with EPUB. Dealing with Amazon's format(s) when I was doing a lot of Ebook work was a hassle. There was a severe lack of documentation and tools that worked reliably. Since EPUB is an open standard, tools abounded. One of my favorites was Atlantis Word Processor, which looked and felt like Word 2003 but had a tiny footprint in memory and storage, and amazing backward compatibility, making it usable on computers decades old. It supports EPUB as a native save format. And quite inexpensive too.

For a while, it looked like Microsoft was going to do the same EPUB support for Word. The original versions of the Edge browser using their own engine allowed it to act as an EPUB reader and had some nice features for that. Support for that feature set was dropped when they switched to using the Chrome engine. I always felt that was a mistaken bit bit of cost cutting by Microsoft.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 11, 2025 06:20 AM (/0z9K)

80 >>>They're fed, I'm drinking coffee. What more d'ya want?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

>Get your ass to Mars! Get your ass to Mars!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 06:20 AM (1zOXE)

81 Most breakers (as i understood it a few years ago)trip from heat building up during overload or over-amp events. Once they cool down they'll reset normally. Overheating can make them extra sensitive to heavy loads.

Posted by: Qix at December 11, 2025 06:21 AM (3nea4)

82 Speaking of small computers, picked up two Seeed Quarks, these are full Linux capable SOC that measure 1.75x1.5x0.5, has a color screen, a mic, 2 usb ports, WiFi, Bluetooth, micro sd, currently running a web server on it to test.

Also picked up a Lilygo T-Display S3 and am running Bruce Firmware on it, and playing around with that.

With my impending retirement, I’ve decided that I will go full time geek and try to recapture the enthusiasm of youth when I first got into computers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 06:24 AM (XV/Pl)

83 After offloading and selling the oil, that seized tanker could be grounded at Gaza as the beginning of a “Mulberry” harbor.

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 11, 2025 06:25 AM (1FEc1)

84 Breakers can get weak due to age, tripping prematurely, they wear out basically.

Just had to replace a big double-breaker for my well. Turned it off for the first time in possibly 40 years. It just would not re-engage. Felt like something mechanical just wouldn't catch. Fortunately, Lowe's had the exact replacement. (Did you know that breakers attach to proprietary rails? I didn't! Make sure you get the correct brand)

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 06:30 AM (0ZmKh)

85 The seized tanker should be renamed and reflaged.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 06:30 AM (W7XSX)

86 Oh, to get a Letter of Remarque to go privateering.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 06:31 AM (W7XSX)

87
Oh, to get a Letter of Remarque to go privateering.
Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 06:31 AM (W7XSX)

All Quiet on the Caribbean Front

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 06:33 AM (tgvbd)

88 It ain’t about oil.

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 06:34 AM (o2ZRX)

89 Most breakers (as i understood it a few years ago)trip from heat building up during overload or over-amp events. Once they cool down they'll reset normally. Overheating can make them extra sensitive to heavy loads.

Dittos with having all the motors start at the same time.

With a storm, the voltage may have dropped as the grid tries to balance for a damaged circuit and the electricity is coming from somewhere further.

In Texas, and I imagine elsewhere due to the incorporation of lead following wind/solar, by law, suppliers have a wider range of deviation from 60Hz (50Hz for Australia)

All these things can add up (including the hot circuit) to having breakers trip.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 06:34 AM (a4flb)

90 Hector Berlioz is 222 years old today. Yay!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 11, 2025 06:35 AM (WPL6O)

91 @82....try to recapture the enthusiasm of youth when I first got into computers.

They didn't have computers when I was a youth. They were thrust into my face at middle age. So I depend on IT guys I know to help me out.

Posted by: Case at December 11, 2025 06:37 AM (G1OIb)

92 It ain’t about oil.
Posted by: Eromero

Proof? The media says it's about oil.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 06:37 AM (0ZmKh)

93 From About That Time, I didn't realize that you were just n the hospital - is everything okay? I will pray that you are able to get out of there very soon!

And I noticed that Jim has a surgery planned for next Monday - what's up with that? Prayers will be ascending for you as well! 😊💕🙏

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 06:38 AM (SRRAx)

94
Hector Berlioz is 222 years old today. Yay!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 11, 2025 06:35 AM (WPL6O)

Genius without talent, it was said of him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 06:39 AM (tgvbd)

95 92 It ain’t about oil.
Posted by: Eromero

Proof? The media says it's about oil.
Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 06:37
The ‘media’ says men can be women.

Posted by: Eromero at December 11, 2025 06:39 AM (o2ZRX)

96 A tripped breaker is doing what it was designed to do. Breakers also become "weak" due to hysteresis. Frequent thermal overloads break down the capacity to perform.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 06:40 AM (1zOXE)

97 40 About 7 hours ago, my notebook decided to stop charging the battery. Down to 10%. Oh shit. Tried the usual stuff. No go.

WTF? Bad power supply? Bad connector? This sucks.

Completely disconnected everything, powered down, plugged in power supply. Powered up 30 minutes later. Now it's charging.

Next up, I suspect will be my iPhone 8. Time to bite the checkbook and begin upgrading.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 05:28 AM (1zOXE)

If your laptop is several years old or more the battery could be running out of juice. Not uncommon.

Depending on your laptop you might be able to replace the battery yourself if you can find the battery pack for it somewhere to buy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 06:41 AM (6ydKt)

98 What you want to do is find yourself a nice big paper clip.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 11, 2025 06:41 AM (Vq1pX)

99 It’s bad enough getting BS from a human being but there is something particularly annoying about computers that have incorporated 100% outright nonsense into a declarative assertion of fact.

I grew up with all kinds of people around me BS'ing about this or that, so when computers do it, its sort of expected.

Nowadays, read through any X threads, and there is a large community of people who completely inverse reality and with full authority tell you things that you know for a fact are not true.

Furthermore, the culture has stepped away from Theory of Mind and doesn't know to ask questions, yet feels that their own emotions are receipts for a "fact" to be true that they just made up.

Three generations of failed public education has resulted in most people struggling with things that were almost reflexive decades ago. Probably the worst aspect is the deconstruction of the language such where for most people certain thoughts are not possible because they don't have the vocabulary.

So, to me, AI has become my best friend because so many around me can't keep up or don't have the foundation to participate in the topics I care about.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 06:46 AM (a4flb)

100 Whichever typography firm came up with Calibri might have been disappointed at first to learn State was axing the use of their font, but they should cheer up soon because now that Rubio, and by extension Trump, have decided that Calibri is bad, every petty lefitst in the country will start using Calibri to own the cons.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 06:47 AM (6ydKt)

101 87, LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2025 06:49 AM (Cjt/F)

102 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 11, 2025 06:49 AM (bQ4nt)

103 I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Comic Sans at December 11, 2025 06:50 AM (2Ez/1)

104 Good morning, old dog ,and all !

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 06:51 AM (rZCVI)

105 Good morning, Fen.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 11, 2025 06:51 AM (bQ4nt)

106 How the SgtMjr stole Xmas:

https://tinyurl.com/m4d7p7b9

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 11, 2025 06:52 AM (y7zkd)

107
Someone's stomach clock has never adjusted to the time change.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 06:53 AM (tgvbd)

108
Pixy, has your kitchen power circuit got a separate local ground fault interrupt breaker?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 11, 2025 06:54 AM (iTNuP)

109 Whichever typography firm came up with Calibri might have been disappointed at first to learn State was axing the use of their font, but they should cheer up soon because now that Rubio, and by extension Trump, have decided that Calibri is bad, every petty lefitst in the country will start using Calibri to own the cons.

I absolutely hope that happens. When I heard that State was changing their fonts, my first thought was, it is sort of like tinting the stationary with a color to understand what set of biases and assumptions are behind the communication itself.

I would like to think, anytime I see Calibri, it is from people who immediately self-identify as a retard, and from there I can have context to the drivel that follows.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 06:54 AM (a4flb)

110
I dunno.

You'll have to burn your house down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 06:55 AM (tgvbd)

111 Morning all. Morning Pixy.

I would replace that breaker toot-sweet.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 11, 2025 06:55 AM (1Nv0l)

112 At NY Post:
Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, aka “Fantasma,” crossed into the US illegally from Mexico in 2022 after allegedly bribing his way out of a Honduran jail — but his extended taste of freedom was finally dashed on Monday when federal agents nabbed him in Nebraska, according to the Department of Justice.

It’s unclear which California DMV office issued the illegal migrant a license.

BULLSHIT
They know the following:
Who was logged on
Where they logged on
What documents were used to confirm ID
When to the second the ID was approved
When the DL was printed and mailed

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 06:55 AM (gbOdA)

113 It ain’t about oil.
Posted by: Eromero

Proof? The media says it's about oil.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 06:37 AM (0ZmKh)
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Just like in Iraq and Afghanistan over 20 years ago.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 06:56 AM (sQBXy)

114 All communication should be done in a Nerd Font, Preferably Meslo.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 06:57 AM (XV/Pl)

115 Frequent thermal overloads break down the capacity to perform.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 06:40 AM (1zOXE)

This could be what happened to my motivation.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 11, 2025 06:58 AM (km+Lu)

116 I would like to think, anytime I see Calibri, it is from people who immediately self-identify as a retard, and from there I can have context to the drivel that follows.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 06:54 AM (a4flb)

I'm gonna have to object to that just because I know that Hadrian is a self-proclaimed loser but I certainly wouldn't consider him a retard.

Big Dummy on the other hand is like a male model; cute & playful but vacant between the ears.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:01 AM (6ydKt)

117 Times New Roman is God's Chosen Font. Fight me if you must.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 07:02 AM (svLOV)

118 GOP releases first ad against Jasmine Crockett. It is disturbing that there were so many comments by Democrats calling for violence against Republicans

https://tinyurl.com/cbkjdx53

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 11, 2025 07:03 AM (ix8EF)

119 A tripped breaker is doing what it was designed to do. Breakers also become "weak" due to hysteresis. Frequent thermal overloads break down the capacity to perform.

For thermal-magnetic breakers (the most common residential), hysteresis deals more with the ability to reset, its the actual mechanical toggling and arcing that causes premature wear on a breaker.

That is, don't use the breaker as an on/off switch. I've been told that residential breakers are rated to be used for manual operation about 6-10 times their fault-clearing rating.

I guess what is implied there is that fault-related clearing wears out breakers quicker than manual operation.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:05 AM (a4flb)

120 Greetings from the Carolinas.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 11, 2025 07:06 AM (XqFM2)

121 >>>Frequent thermal overloads break down the capacity to perform.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 06:40 AM (1zOXE)

This could be what happened to my motivation.

Posted by: Pete Bog

>This swings both ways; either the breaker doesn't trip and it welds its self together, blows up and catches fire, or you get nuisance trips and can't keep it functioning because the linkage is worn out.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 07:06 AM (1zOXE)

122 I'm gonna have to object to that just because I know that Hadrian is a self-proclaimed loser but I certainly wouldn't consider him a retard.

Basically Hadrian is driving a Subaru but not a lesbo, right?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:07 AM (a4flb)

123 GOP releases first ad against Jasmine Crockett. It is disturbing that there were so many comments by Democrats calling for violence against Republicans

How much are you willing to wager that these people calling for violence against strangers have never gotten punched in the face?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:08 AM (a4flb)

124 I bake sourdough bread and every other time, instead of making one 1000g loaf, make three 333s, resulting in three softball sized mini-loaves. I just had a morning eggwich, two slices from a mini-loaf, lightly toasted, and in between, an egg, cooked in a cereal bowl in the MW for 30 seconds, then a small slice of very very sharp white cheddar on the egg, another 20 seconds in the MW, and the eggwich is ready for ten drops or so of tabasco. This, with a hot mug of Folgers Black Silk coffee. Yum. Two kinds of tangy, one from the sourdough, another from the cheese, nicely accented by the salty hot pepper.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 11, 2025 07:11 AM (KiBMU)

125 99 ... the culture has stepped away from Theory of Mind and doesn't know to ask questions, yet feels that their own emotions are receipts for a "fact" to be true that they just made up.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 06:46 AM (a4flb)

Candace Owens starts a lot of assertions with, "I feel." Might circumvent some lawsuits; I dunno law.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)

126 Basically Hadrian is driving a Subaru but not a lesbo, right?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 07:07 AM (a4flb)

I don't know actually.

He's from Texas so I'm assuming he drives a big pickup truck with bull horns on the hood.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

127
Big Dummy on the other hand is like a male model; cute & playful but vacant between the ears.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:01 AM (6ydKt)

The Big Dummy is like one of those old-time British aristocrats: can't add 2 and 2 but has perfect manners and is a true gentleman.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 07:13 AM (tgvbd)

128 124 I bake sourdough bread and every other time, instead of making one 1000g loaf, make three 333s, resulting in three softball sized mini-loaves. I just had a morning eggwich, two slices from a mini-loaf, lightly toasted, and in between, an egg, cooked in a cereal bowl in the MW for 30 seconds, then a small slice of very very sharp white cheddar on the egg, another 20 seconds in the MW, and the eggwich is ready for ten drops or so of tabasco. This, with a hot mug of Folgers Black Silk coffee. Yum. Two kinds of tangy, one from the sourdough, another from the cheese, nicely accented by the salty hot pepper.
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 11, 2025 07:11 AM (KiBMU)

Yum, indeed.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 07:16 AM (RuTUS)

129 Two kinds of tangy, one from the sourdough, another from the cheese, nicely accented by the salty hot pepper.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 11, 2025 07:11 AM (KiBMU)

*look down at his Jimmy Dean microwaved egg mcmuffin in shame & disappointment*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:16 AM (6ydKt)

130 JJ up.

Posted by: Case at December 11, 2025 07:17 AM (G1OIb)

131 DOJ: Since January, the [Civil Rights] division has lost about 75% of its attorneys.

Translation:
Republican president have improved civil rights of Americans.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 11, 2025 07:18 AM (gbOdA)

132 The Big Dummy is like one of those old-time British aristocrats: can't add 2 and 2 but has perfect manners and is a true gentleman.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 07:13 AM (tgvbd)

He'd make a perfect Prime Minister then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 07:18 AM (6ydKt)

133 >>>*look down at his Jimmy Dean microwaved egg mcmuffin in shame & disappointment*

Posted by: SpeakingOf

These muffins / biscuits are a staple when commuting, working on the road out of town.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 07:19 AM (1zOXE)

134 Times New Roman is God's Chosen Font. Fight me if you must.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 07:02 AM (svLOV)

But do it in a proper font.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 11, 2025 07:22 AM (dK+Kv)

135 99 Nowadays, read through any X threads, and there is a large community of people who completely inverse reality and with full authority tell you things that you know for a fact are not true.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 11, 2025 06:46 AM (a4flb)

Part of this inverse-reality world (the part that's not their "lying," maybe!) falls into the category of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 07:46 AM (RuTUS)

136 Pixy, where do I submit tech questions about the blog? E.g., I read the blog using Brave on a Galaxy S9 (old, I know, but it works). I could zoom to the center column; the text would format to the larger size and wrap to shorter lines. On Monday (I think), the center column text no longer zooms the same; it's smaller (too small for my weak eyes) such that I must rotate my phone to landscape to read the contents. Firefox always has behaved this way, which is another reason I use Brave. Probably, some setting I have dorked up.. Appreciate any advice. Thanks.

Posted by: Brian Douthitt at December 11, 2025 08:24 AM (iJZ+o)

137 The ‘media’ says men can be women.
Posted by: Eromero

Yep. And that Joe Biden got 81 million votes.

Posted by: t-bird at December 11, 2025 09:01 AM (0ZmKh)

138 https://x.com/kmcnam1/status/1998966004118880640?s=20

Posted by: DorseyHill at December 11, 2025 07:34 PM (v0NoV)

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - December 10, 2025 [Frosty Rex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: "The Strip" by polynikes - Thank you!!]

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"This is easy to understand. Doof has Thursday night, Weird Dave does memes on Friday night (but he used to do Thursday night), Doof (also known as Disco) posts on Sunday night with posting stats and a fashion report from Piper, TRex (also known a Dino) has the Pittsburgh scanner on Wednesdays, Doof has Tuesday night (formerly done by Doggo), the three D's (Disco, Dino and Doggo) host Club ONT on Saturday (which is now is open from time to time with a limited menu in other ONTs upon request), and Monday is a rotation between MisHum (who used to do ONTs five nights a week) and CBD. Launch times are predictable unless they're not. Got it?"

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Wednesday ONT Department of Fine Art

This is the Winter Egg, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II from the firm of Faberge, and presented to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, on Easter Day, 1913.

The naturalistic design is not the only outstanding thing about this egg. The approach to materials, too, is rare and peculiarly timeless. Rock crystal, from which the shell and the base are made, is not the most lavish choice - and it had been used in previous eggs to create a kind of ovoid display case. But the Winter Egg is different. Transparent quartz is deployed here, because in the right hands it can be made to emulate both hoar-encrusted glass and jagged ice. A beautiful material has been rendered priceless by the artistry invested in it, by an ineffable human touch.
There are, of course, plenty of precious metals and gems in the egg, too - but always they serve the design. The trickling meltwater on the craggy base is made of platinum, while the sparkling effect of the whole ensemble is produced by the careful placement of minuscule diamonds, more than 4,000 of them in all.
The surprise inside the egg is a separate work of art, and also a feat of botanical mimicry. The wood anemones are arranged informally in a woven basket that is made of platinum and set with rose-cut diamonds. Some of the windflowers - as wood anemones are also known - are fully in bloom, some still half-closed. Their pale petals are of white quartz, and at the centre of each head is a demantoid garnet set within a gold stamen. The leaves on the golden stems are carved from pale green nephrite. Source: Christies

One of 50 made. Only 43 survive.

Sold at auction recently for USD$30.2 million. Where are you going to find another one for sale?

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The Wednesday ONT has no time for hidden musical themes. Just turn the volume up:

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Some days are better than others...

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Jesus will be at the Club ONT Christmas party on Saturday. Will you? Don't miss it and get a mark on your permanent record.

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ONT Department of Military History

On November 4, 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet," flying A-1H Skyraider Bu. No. 135297, NE/572, from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway, carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type... it was a toilet!
Also unique to this mission is the fact that this aircraft was named "Paper Tiger II" (a temporary name used for just this one flight.)
The following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20, 1965.
"I was a pilot in VA-25 on the 1965 Vietnam cruise.
572 was flown by CDR C. W. "Bill" Stoddard. His wingman in 577 (which was my assigned airplane) was LCDR Robin Bacon, who had a wing station mounted movie camera (the only one remaining in the fleet from WWII.)
The flight was a Dixie Station strike (South Vietnam) going to the Delta. When they arrived in the target area and CDR Stoddard was reading the ordnance list to the FAC [Forward Air Controller], he ended with "and one code name Sani-Flush." The FAC couldn't believe it and joined up to see it. It was dropped in a dive with LCDR Bacon flying tight wing position to film the drop. When it came off, it turned hole to the wind and almost struck his airplane. It made a great ready room movie.
The FAC said that it whistled all the way down.
The toilet was a damaged toilet, which was going to be thrown overboard. One of our plane captains rescued it and the ordnance crew made a rack, tailfins and nose fuse for it. Our checkers maintained a position to block the view of the air boss and the Captain while the aircraft was taxiing forward. Just as it was being shot off we got a 1MC message from the bridge, "What the hell was on 572's right wing?"
There were a lot of jokes with air intelligence about germ warfare. I wish that we had saved the movie film. CDR Stoddard was later killed while flying 572 in Oct. 1966. He was hit by three SAMs over Vinh." Source

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Bonus points if you know why an "E" was added to the toilet bomb.

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ONT Department of History and Languages

Hat tip: OrangeEnt

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REMINDER

Saturday's Hobby Thread requires Horde participation. We are honoring the Christmas ornament. Please send photos of ornaments from your collection to the Hobby Thread email address. What qualifies?

Could be something sentimental, something you made as a child or an adult, something special given to you, something you picked up on your travels, something whimsical or fun, something particularly novel, something really old, something handmade, something intricate or fancy, something irreverent and cheeky, etc.

Don't worry about sending your "favorite." We all know that many ornaments are treasures for different reasons.

If there is a story behind your photo, send a brief description. I may edit or inappropriately embellish, so be warned.

Send individual photos - one ornament for each photo (unless there is a cohesive set that go together). No limit, but the humble Hobby Thread only has so much space to work with.

If you don't usually drop into the Hobby Thread, this weekend would be a good time to stop by and say hello. It is going to be fun.

THANK YOU!

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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was from Chicago? Apparently so.

From Wikipedia:

Robert L. May created Rudolph in 1939 as an assignment for Chicago-based Montgomery Ward. The retailer had been buying and giving away booklets for Christmas every year and it was decided that creating their own book would save money. May considered naming the reindeer Rollo or Reginald before deciding upon using the name Rudolph. May chose a reindeer because of his daughter's love of the deer at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, IL. May also said he was treated like Rudolph as a child. In its first year of publication, Montgomery Ward distributed 2.4 million copies of Rudolph's story.

While May was staring out his office window in downtown Chicago, pondering how best to craft a Christmas story about a reindeer, a thick fog from Lake Michigan blocked his view - giving him a flash of inspiration. "Suddenly I had it!" he recalled. "A nose! A bright red nose that would shine through fog like a spotlight."

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid and and Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all - LEROY!!!

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

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TSO for the big ONT finish.

Amazing that TSO started as a side project from Savatage. Songs like Prelude to Madness are thinly disguised orchestra metal. Warning: 80s Savatage isn't for everyone. Take in small doses.

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1 Gabe: “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus."

Mary: "I thought it was supposed to be Immanuel."

Gabe: facepalm 🤦

Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 1:23 v Luke 1:31 — ~~argue~~ discuss

Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and' at December 10, 2025 10:01 PM (zKAC0)

2 Hmmm. Anyway.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 10:01 PM (U/Byj)

3 Evening all.

Posted by: Joyenz at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (2F0/Y)

4 There's nothing like a hot woman in a wifebeater shirt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (COQGW)

5 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (MmTZZ)

6 This is the Winter Egg, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II from the firm of Faberge, and presented to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, on Easter Day, 1913.

Nicholas II spent too much time chasing Faberge eggs and not enough time killing commie rabble-rousers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (COQGW)

7 Hey, Frosty!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (77rzZ)

8 Sold at auction recently for USD$30.2 million. Where are you going to find another one for sale?

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who bought it I wonder...

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (g47mK)

9 Thanks for the ONT.

I wonder if polynikes chose a specific era of rhe Strip?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (zZu0s)

10 Caller told him that if he shows up and tries anything, he'll bayonet him.

Found the Pittsburgh Moron!

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (nhCoE)

11 7 Hey, Frosty!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM
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Hey Bulg!!

Posted by: TRex - mid-week dino at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

12 Welp, tomorrow is the big day – surgery to remove part of my liver is scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm CST, and expected to take around 3 hours. The surgeon will also be using heat ablation on the remnants of the other small tumors which are also in my liver. I think the current plan is just to take 1 (of

lobe of the liver.

He will also be taking a few lymph nodes to see if the cancer has progressed outside of the liver, but so far none of the imaging over the past year has shown any lymphatic involvement.

He isn’t anticipating any surprises, and thinks that I should be able to go home in 5-7 days after surgery. We plan on traveling to South Texas on the 20th to have Christmas with both of our older daughters and their families.

I have always recovered remarkably quickly from surgery, and we are hoping/expecting that this one will be no different.

All of the Christmas presents this year are “wrapped” in the festive cardboard boxes/mailing envelopes they arrived in, as the chemo made me tireder than I realized when it came time to start wrapping everything. (Continued....)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)

13 Nicholas II spent too much time chasing Faberge eggs and not enough time killing commie rabble-rousers.

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his reign was doomed from the start me thinks...even his mommy did not think he was a good monarch...

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (g47mK)

14 Sold at auction recently for USD$30.2 million. Where are you going to find another one for sale?

I'll give you 500 bucks for it, right now.

Posted by: Antiques Roadshow at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (COQGW)

15 Yes, I am in fact lurking.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (VmDLh)

16 Willowed:

Trump HAS to go after these GOPe pretenders who haven't gotten the memo:

Washington — Republican moderates in the House revolted against leadership on Wednesday as they seek to force a vote on expiring health insurance premium tax credits — an issue that could have major political ramifications for the party in next year's elections.

Facing an end-of-year deadline, Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania introduced a discharge petition to try to bring a bill to the floor that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies by two years. A handful of GOP moderates quickly signed on.

The move is the latest rebellion by rank-and-file Republicans to force votes on issues that leadership would rather avoid.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (Cjcf6)

17 Boobs
( . ) ( . )

Italian boobs
( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (xcxpd)

18 There's nothing like a hot woman in a wifebeater shirt.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (COQGW)

Disagree: when she's in one of my shirts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (zZu0s)

19 I seem to remember Malcolm Forbes had the largest collection of Faberge eggs outside the Hermitage.

Posted by: browndog kicking up dirt at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (3sXRv)

20 ...Fortunately, I purchased some Christmas-y labels with individual family members’ names on them, so those are plastered all over the boxes and mailers.

We are bringing wrapping paper and accessories with us as usual for the girls to wrap their presents (they send them to our house so that they don’t have to carry them on the plane), so they may decide to wrap everything for me when they get to town 🤣🤣🤣

I will try and have Paul update everyone when I am in recovery – he should be posting something on my Facebook page. He may stay overnight in the hospital with me, but I will probably be in ICU overnight, just because I won’t be done with surgery aftermath until early evening. He may just decide to drive home (surgery is in Dallas) and come back on Friday morning.

Anyway, prayers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

***Important Update***

My doctor called with a proposition in case he has to bail on liver resection – he can implant something called an HAI pump, which can deliver medication directly into the liver. I asked if we could do both 🤣🤣🤣

Will know more tomorrow.

Apparently my case is already considered “outside the box”. Of course…🙄🙄🙄 (Cont.)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (SRRAx)

21 I have things I could send into the hobby thread. But they would not be magnificent or fabulous.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (6p0Jv)

22 Back before the Soviet collapse - I think - there was a travelling exhibition of a dozen or so of the Faberge eggs. Was lucky to catch it. Amazing really.

Spent a fair amount of time in Leningrad and of course explored the Hermitage a fair bit (it was a 20 minute walk) but don't recall seeing any of the eggs.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (U/Byj)

23 This is easy to understand.

That photo slays me.

It's me and my wife when I try to explain THAC0 to her and insist that ascending AC is for innumerate children.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (UGyV5)

24 ...Oh, and surgery is scheduled for 2:30 pm and should last 3-4 hours if all goes according to plan. So you probably won't get an update from Paul until tomorrow evening sometime - didn't want anyone to worry too soon!

Thank you SO MUCH for all of the prayers - we really do appreciate it! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)

25 I'm glad TRex explained how the ONT schedule works. I've been getting confused.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (ESVrU)

26 Nicholas II was an idiot, but only a supergenious could’ve saved Russia from communism at that point. Maybe Trumpov.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (77rzZ)

27 Prayers for Teresa and Paul.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:09 PM (6p0Jv)

28 I like Savatage.

I'm not as sure about Italian horror movies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:09 PM (xcxpd)

29 Evening, all! I'm usually around for the Hobby Thread on Saturdays. Ornaments? The one I remember best from my childhood was a Grumpy Santa, a ceramic figurine with an eternal black scowl. Not sure where Mom found it -- maybe at Woolworth's. she might still have had it when she passed away, but if so, I missed it among her things when I cleared the apartment out.

I wish I could find one like it now. Wonder if eBay has one . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (wzUl9)

30 The surgeon will also be using heat ablation on the remnants of the other small tumors which are also in my liver.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)
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Make sure those hot irons are from the official AoSHQ medical stores...

We'll be praying for you!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (ESVrU)

31 Spent a fair amount of time in Leningrad and of course explored the Hermitage a fair bit (it was a 20 minute walk) but don't recall seeing any of the eggs.

I believe I saw several in the Kremlin museum a few years ago, but I might have been drunk.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (COQGW)

32 Prayers up Teresa! You are clearly "outside the box"!!

Posted by: TRex - praying dino at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

33 I like Savatage.
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The band?

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)

34 Good luck, Teresa. We'll all be pulling for you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (zZu0s)

35 IIRC Coca Cola started a Christmas advertisement with Santa Claus that provided our current view of him. Prior to the advertisement he was shown a lot different.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (KDPiq)

36
Good luck Teresa, you're in our prayers!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (w6EFb)

37 Everyone is praying for you, Teresa!

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (OoFl2)

38 Blue Man Group — great way to start off a holyday season ONT. Frosty Rex.

MiladyJo and I got to watch them, Saturday night and Sunday matinee, in their original show in NY. Astor Place Theatre in 1991 says Wiki? Guess so. We had a good time in NY. Won't be going back.

Posted by: mindful webworker - how we got there is a whole nother story at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (zKAC0)

39 Nice content, TRex, thank you!

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (OoFl2)

40 Nicholas II was an idiot, but only a supergenious could’ve saved Russia from communism at that point. Maybe Trumpov.

==

he was not an idiot per se, just a man not suited for the job, surrounded by vicious and dirty intrigues, collapsing empire, wars, enemies all around and a rotting social structure; it was meant to collapse

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (g47mK)

41
You got it, Teresa.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (H1HTt)

42 TiFW - prayers for an uneventful surgery and speedy recovery.

Posted by: PabloD at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (GALGA)

43
My 95 yr old mother had another platelet crash right before Thanksgiving. They changed around the medications they're giving, and he platelets didn't dip below normal range for a week, so that's good.

She also seems to be perkier and more aware.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

44 *** "The Strip" by polynikes
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I like it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (Hm8Vv)

45 21 I have things I could send into the hobby thread. But they would not be magnificent or fabulous.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM
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Submissions are required to be neither magnificent or fabulous.

Still no macaroni art yet...

Posted by: TRex - glimmers of hope dino at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

46 You wanna know the source of the Bolshevik Revolution?

Peter the Great.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (77rzZ)

47 Thank you SO MUCH for all of the prayers - we really do appreciate it! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)

Wishing you all the best, Teresa. You are one tough lady, and you will beat this thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (npFr7)

48 Oh no!

Zarah Sultana MP
@zarahsultana
Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

Lives are at immediate risk.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

49 Nicholas II spent too much time chasing Faberge eggs and not enough time killing commie rabble-rousers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (COQGW)

Nicky was done in by his own aristocracy who thought the Czar and his court were too reactionary and backward to be cool like those Europeans who understood state socialism and industrialization, like Bismarck and the Wedgewoods

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (rbvCR)

50 33 I like Savatage.
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The band?
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)

Yes?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (xcxpd)

51 I'm glad TRex explained how the ONT schedule works. I've been getting confused.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (ESVrU)

Want to fill in for me some time?

Great stuff tonight, Dino!

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (XvF0J)

52 Lives are at immediate risk.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

Say hi to Bobby Sands!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (rbvCR)

53 Faberge eggs...I think I've seen one in some museum. Maybe it was a copy.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (g47mK)

54 IIRC Coca Cola started a Christmas advertisement with Santa Claus that provided our current view of him. Prior to the advertisement he was shown a lot different.

Like this

https://tinyurl.com/yvykejny

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (COQGW)

55 Top photo: "The Strip" - Vegas, yes? We were there once.

Maybe hidden click shoulda been Viva Las Vegas?
https://youtu.be/B6WnnZRSKYs

Posted by: mindful webworker - (not Viva Las Vegas) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (zKAC0)

56 Thanks for the mighty, mighty, mighty Wednesday Night ONT, T-Rex!

Sometimes the Pittsburgh scanner seems waaaay too good to be true!

Love the crystal egg. Fabulous!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (kB9dk)

57 Huh. Odd. On my phone, i keep getting random lib video suggestions. Never click on em, but they keep popping up.

Does not happen at home.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

58 Wait! I think it was in Las Vegas!

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (g47mK)

59 I went to Las Vegas once: as a 13 year old on a church choir trip. Our bus broke down there, so we had to spend the night while it was repaired. For some insane reason, the adults let us loose on the strip. My group found circus circus and had a blast, but the rest of the 140 of us got up to the Lord only knows what.

We did not have a church choir trip the next year.

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (wLjpr)

60 Everyone is praying for you, Teresa!
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Absolutely! May God bless and heal you!

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (Cjcf6)

61 Seriously, I don't know if I've ever seen such a confusing mix of quality and crap as Italy puts in their cinema.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (xcxpd)

62 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (lUFok)

63 Paper Tiger II story...It gives flashbacks to that mash episode where Hawkeye tries towing the latrine to North Korea. Albeit for different purposes.

Posted by: Rex B at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (r6f6k)

64 Teresa in Fort Worth, get well soon!

Posted by: Don Black. Message: GO ARMY beat Navy at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)

65 Bellagio.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (g47mK)

66 Still no macaroni art yet...

Posted by: TRex - glimmers of hope dino at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

*pops up head.*
*maybe?*
Thank you, Mr Dino.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (6p0Jv)

67 Want to fill in for me some time?

Great stuff tonight, Dino!
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (XvF0J)
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I doubt I could ever do the ONT justice.

The Disco, the Dino, and the Doggo are awesome, if only for the alliteration.

I'm pretty comfortable in my own corner of the AoSHQ media empire.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)

68 Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

Lives are at immediate risk.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

I hope their hospital rooms are downwind from a barbecue joint.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (npFr7)

69 Prayer up, Teresa!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (77rzZ)

70 Like this

https://tinyurl.com/yvykejny
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (COQGW)

Is that rasputin?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

71
She also seems to be perkier and more aware.
Posted by: publius

Good, that's the right direction.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:16 PM (H1HTt)

72 >I wish I could find one like it now. Wonder if eBay has one . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (wzUl9)

I have a few very old Polish glass ornaments from my mother. The glass is impossibly thin. Mrs. Meta and I began collecting ornaments anytime time we'd travel. It's fun to reminisce while decorating the tree.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 10:16 PM (GTqXr)

73 IIRC Coca Cola started a Christmas advertisement with Santa Claus that provided our current view of him. Prior to the advertisement he was shown a lot different.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025

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Coca-Cola did, and then 7UP started their "Man From Uncola" campaign, using their concept of 7UP as "The Uncola."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9)

74
Lives are at immediate risk.

/nods indifferently

And who put their lives at risk?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (H1HTt)

75 I'm pretty comfortable in my own corner of the AoSHQ media empire.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)

The pimp hat helps

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (xcxpd)

76 And thanks TRex, Mr Moki and I look forward to the Wednesday ONT each week - the Pittsburgh Police scanner is a gift that keeps giving!!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (wLjpr)

77 39 Nice content, TRex, thank you!

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM
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Thank you!

Posted by: TRex - workout dino at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

78 Teresa! {{{}}} Your wishes are the Hordes commands.
You go girl!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (TfUTr)

79 https://tinyurl.com/yvykejny
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (COQGW)

Is that rasputin?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

Juan Valdez

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (COQGW)

80 I'm pretty comfortable in my own corner of the AoSHQ media empire.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)

The pimp hat helps
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (xcxpd)
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It's not as comfortable as it looks. But it is very stylish!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:18 PM (ESVrU)

81
hunger strikers...have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

oh, then crisis averted
because now they're in hospital, their stunt is over

because the hospital isn't going to not feed them

and the whole thing was a big fucking stupid waste that accomplished nothing

FUCKING IDIOTS

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (H1HTt)

82 56 Thanks for the mighty, mighty, mighty Wednesday Night ONT, T-Rex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM
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[Respectful and grateful bow in the direction of LS]

Posted by: TRex - dino says danke! at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

83 Teresa, I'll be thinking good thoughts about you tomorrow and waiting for your Paul to update us. Good luck!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (wzUl9)

84 It's not as comfortable as it looks. But it is very stylish!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:18 PM (ESVrU)

It definitely marks you as a suave and debonair man of the world.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)

85 Winter Egg… presented to his mother… on Easter Day, 1913

Wrong Jesus holiday. Couldn't hold this one back until Easter, huh?

Well, the winter part fits the season. In the Northern hemisphere, at least.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Excused at December 10, 2025 10:20 PM (zKAC0)

86 76 And thanks TRex, Mr Moki and I look forward to the Wednesday ONT each week - the Pittsburgh Police scanner is a gift that keeps giving!!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM
***
When real life is so entertaining, who needs fiction? Can't make this stuff up!

Posted by: TRex - dino on duty at December 10, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

87 because the hospital isn't going to not feed them

and the whole thing was a big fucking stupid waste that accomplished nothing

FUCKING IDIOTS
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (H1HTt)

Give them those Olestra potato chips. And Haribo sugar-free Gummi Bears.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:21 PM (npFr7)

88 his reign was doomed from the start me thinks...even his mommy did not think he was a good monarch...
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (g47mK)

Unfortunately for Russia, Nicholas listened a little too much to his wife, Alexandra. And her choice of 'psychotic religious adviser' wasn't so great, either.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)

89 I like Savatage.
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The band?
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)

Yes?
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I belonged to a guitar forum that kicked me out when I didn't go along with the "guitar companies are price gougers" when COVID money suddenly showed up and drove prices upward.

Prior to getting kicked out, I was on good terms with a regular who earned my respect by acknowledging that Ritchie Blackmore had played a huge and ongoing influence on the metal guitar scene via both Deep Purple and Rainbow. Blackmore was his SECOND favorite guitarist. The guitarist from Savatage (Chris Oliva) was his favorite.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (Cjcf6)

90 wolfus, you were asking about Lois Bujold books, and I said after the Nood was called:

The hardest one to read is Mirror Dance, it is downright brutal. Start with Warrior's Apprentice, A Civil Campaign or Captain Vorpatril's Alliance to get your toes wet. She is as good a prosist as David Drake, but they are like Drake was writing Restoration novels.
her first two books in the series about Cordelia are a bit rough, much better than most first books, but she was still shaking out her universe.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (rbvCR)

91 51 Great stuff tonight, Dino!

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM
***
Thank you, Disco!

Hey, do you think JQ needs help putting up more lights for the Club ONT Christmas party on Saturday?

Posted by: TRex - drinkerating dino at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

92 I don't understand hunger strikes.

"Give me my way, or I'll starve myself!" Ok.

Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?

Have a sandwich. Or don't. I don't care.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (UGyV5)

93 I was doing some online shopping and wow do some internet site use intentionally unattractive models.

It seems counterproductive because as you are looking at a range of products you aren't going to take the time to differentiate "ugly mode/nice shirt" from just ugly shirt...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:23 PM (sKqQm)

94 E for Excellence

Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 10:24 PM (YwEeS)

95 Pre-Book Thread content: At the library this evening, I picked up two non-fiction items, a biography of Larry McMurtry and one of C.S. Lewis. I plan to dive into one or the other once I finish my current Anthony Horowitz mystery. It occurred to me that I know very little about McMurtry's early life or how he came to be published in the first place, let alone how his stuff caught the attention of Hollywood.

As for Lewis, I know more about his life than I do his work -- and I don't know much about his life. Basically anecdotes, and that he preferred a pipe tobacco called Three Nuns.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:24 PM (wzUl9)

96 G’night, All. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

97 Prayers continue Teresa and Paul.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (kB9dk)

98 Evening.

Savatage is fucking outstanding.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (1Yy3c)

99 For those who were curious where I got the idea for putting a ribbon on a male TRex, go to the 6, 16, and 20 minute mark.

https://youtu.be/prPyAPrOliM

If you like British humor, this series is a hoot!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)

100 wolfus, you were asking about Lois Bujold books, and I said after the Nood was called:

The hardest one to read is Mirror Dance, it is downright brutal. Start with Warrior's Apprentice, A Civil Campaign or Captain Vorpatril's Alliance to get your toes wet. She is as good a prosist as David Drake, but they are like Drake was writing Restoration novels.
her first two books in the series about Cordelia are a bit rough, much better than most first books, but she was still shaking out her universe.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025

***
This library had a bunch of her stuff, but none of those that I recall. I'll be out at the big suburban library on Saturday morning and can have a look.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (wzUl9)

101 I wonder if the Whistling Toilet of Doom succeeded in taking out any Viet Cong?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)

102 Thank you for the ONT T-Rex!
Doof thanks for the pickleball info, it will be put to good use.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:26 PM (TfUTr)

103 The head strapped to the wing pylon was used to illustrate the bomb shortage that was occurring while LBJ and McNamara was saying there was no bomb shortage.

The "E" is for excellence. Can't you just feel the sarcasm for it being placed on the toilet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (2GVsD)

104 98 Evening.

Savatage is fucking outstanding.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM
***
I'm pleased to know that Savatage finds favor among the Horde. I wasn't sure about including it.

Posted by: TRex - deep cut dino at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

105 Hey, do you think JQ needs help putting up more lights for the Club ONT Christmas party on Saturday?

Posted by: TRex - drinkerating dino at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq

I volunteer to help JQ drunkorate. No one at home enjoys the colored lights and Blow Mold santa .

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (6p0Jv)

106 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)

Best possible luck and blessings to you tomorrow, TiFW. I'll sure send up a prayer, but be advised I might not have a lot of pull up there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (COQGW)

107 The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving.

They have a nice touch. Well done.

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 10:28 PM (0ZmKh)

108 Amazing that TSO started as a side project from Savatage.

TSO's first big hit, "Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24," was originally on Savatage's album "Dead Winter Dead." A concept album set during the Bosnian War.

"CE/S" was a tribute to "The Cellist of Sarajevo," Vedran Smailović, who would go out and play cello solos in the middle of the ruins of Sarajevo while it was under siege.

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:28 PM (nhCoE)

109 Excellent choice for the lurker link, TRex. Thanks for another fun and informative ONT.

Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 10:28 PM (41CYW)

110 88:And her choice of 'psychotic religious adviser' wasn't so great, either.
Posted by: RickZ

I had a huge coc......I was the perfect advisor, jerk!

Posted by: Rasputin at December 10, 2025 10:29 PM (MmTZZ)

111 Teresa in Fort Worth, have a Dr consultation at 1pm CST tomorrow. Should be done well in time to be praying for you afterward. God guide your surgeons and crew.

Your dealing with your cancer has been inspiring.

Posted by: mindful webworker - CST for the cyst? at December 10, 2025 10:30 PM (zKAC0)

112 The company Brengun makes a 1/48 resin kit with the toilet and decals for the Skyraider. BRL 48040.

So grab a Monogram or a Tamiya 1/48 Skyraider and go to town.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:30 PM (2GVsD)

113 Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

Lives are at immediate risk"

Well... bye.

Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 10:31 PM (XuXeR)

114 88:And her choice of 'psychotic religious adviser' wasn't so great, either.
Posted by: RickZ

I had a huge coc......I was the perfect advisor, jerk!
Posted by: Rasputin at December 10, 2025 10:29 PM (MmTZZ)

Not to mention, you could hardly kill the guy. He just kept ticking!

Posted by: V. Purishkevich at December 10, 2025 10:31 PM (COQGW)

115 I wonder if the Whistling Toilet of Doom succeeded in taking out any Viet Cong?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)

Sounds like the opening of the series 'Dead Like Me', a toilet seat flying down from the Mir Space Station killing Ellen Muth, the lead character.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)

116 Golly, who would have guessed that the UK's problems had UK participants that were totally onboard and "benefiting" from it?

Can we just sever relations with the UK unless they reform?

Andy Hughes
@AndyHughesCrime
EXCLUSIVE: A Met officer was accused of running a VIP paedophile ring, which included an MP and a judge, that sexually abused young girls in care.
A Met whistleblower claims it was “covered up” by the force.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:32 PM (Cjcf6)

117
The picture of the guy explaining and the expression on the girl's face does not foretell a continuing relationship.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:32 PM (tgvbd)

118 I love the old Bond movie titles

And Jesus at customs

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:32 PM (eZ5tL)

119 That dude is showing that chick his knife hand, she probably went all bird hand and this is what happens when you go bird hand.

You will respect my knife hand!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 10:33 PM (XV/Pl)

120 Is the toilet plane an F6F?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:33 PM (COQGW)

121 Prayers up for you, Teresa. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 10, 2025 10:34 PM (+8v88)

122 Alright, which of you jokers put lard in the IV's?

Posted by: Hospital admin who has enough problems at December 10, 2025 10:34 PM (TfUTr)

123 Rasputin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODmWkQkgm_g

Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (2GVsD)

124 Prayers for you and your family Teresa. You are one strong and optimistic lady. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Prayers for complete success of the surgery, record healing with no complications that leaves the docs amazed, and a great Christmas with your beloved family.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (WONhk)

125 Nope. It's an A-1 Skyraider. "Vietnam" was the giveaway.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (COQGW)

126 Cicero

No. It is a Douglas AD-6/A-1H Skyraider.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (2GVsD)

127 Festive ONT Mr. Rex!⛄🎄🎁

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (aa8rj)

128 Teresa,
Thank you for the reminder, will definitely be praying for you. Yes, you are "outside the box", I've never heard of anyone with your diagnosis having this surgery. And I pray that it is a huge success and you are with us for many more MoMes

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

129 112 The company Brengun makes a 1/48 resin kit with the toilet and decals for the Skyraider. BRL 48040.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:30 PM
***
for you:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2env24

Posted by: TRex - scaled down dino at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

130 Unfortunately for Russia, Nicholas listened a little too much to his wife, Alexandra. And her choice of 'psychotic religious adviser' wasn't so great, either.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)

I've read a little about Rasputin, and the situation was not ...monosemantic. He was very possibly maligned, as Marie Antoinette was. Much intrigue surrounded the czar, many interests pulling in all directions. Rasputin did seem to have some healing abilities. He wanted to improve the plight of peasants, the common folks. He was shrewd, was popular with some at court, and maybe provided unvarnished opinion to the royal couple.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:36 PM (g47mK)

131 🎶 🎹 amateur hour again
Guess this is as good a day as any to drag this out:

Rudolfo
The Culturally Insensitive Pseudo-Hispanic Version
(should play from 1:10 in the video)

https://bit.ly/rudy-red-nose

Posted by: mindful webworker - CST for the cyst? at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (zKAC0)

132 No. It is a Douglas AD-6/A-1H Skyraider.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (2GVsD)

Shoulda read the text. It says it right there.

Anyway, I don't think the Hellcat had hard points like that.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (COQGW)

133 The Fabrege egg is spectacular. I love snowflakes!

I think whoever first named hoar frost "hoar" vs fairy frost or beauty frost is a nitwit. I think it is a rude name for something so beautiful.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (WONhk)

134
I mean, have you ever been stuck in a conversation with someone who just talks and talks and never really has a theme of what they're talking about and goes down all kinds of little side trails that don't link up with the rest of what they're saying and they just like the sound of their voice and think they're so smart you'll be impressed by the never-ending cascade of words and....

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (tgvbd)

135 Teresa, praying for ya

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (DoBxX)

136 Praying for you Theresa, and thinking of I out as well.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (M4qcY)

137 127 Festive ONT Mr. Rex!⛄🎄🎁

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM
***
Thank you! Your wobbly table is available if you want it. Limited menu tonight though.

Posted by: TRex - host dino at December 10, 2025 10:38 PM (IQ6Gq)

138 Regarding Pierce Brosnan, there's apparently a comic book based on the concept of Old Man Bond (by another name) that may be being adapted, and may be starring him.

Nerdrotic thought he was cleverly not disclosing that while disclosing that, so it seems there's a pretty good chance it's true.

Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (vSvIl)

139 Honestly, I've never understood the logic of hunger strikes. You -- my opponent on some issue if not my outright enemy -- endanger your own health or life because I won't do what you want me to do? Yeah, that'll sure show me.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (3nLb4)

140 You know he's evil because it's right there in his name. Rasputin.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (UGyV5)

141 Well, I guess its time for Trump to blast and/or tariff...Denmark.

The intelligence service of Denmark, a NATO ‘ally’ currently under the rule of left-liberal globalists, has caused quite the stir across Europe and the globe after it labeled the United States as a potential security concern, a stunning shift for a country long conditioned to defer to NATO orthodoxy.

The new intelligence assessment claims Washington, under the Trump administration, is aggressively reasserting its national interests—something globalist governments in Europe have thus far not been prepared to deal with.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (Cjcf6)

142 Doggo! Saw your comment from last night's ONT this morning. Let me see if I have this right: you three have agreed to have a Santa at Saturday night's Club ONT party - but you will be seating him OUTSIDE? In the cold? I know, next to a fire - but this is Santa we are talking about. And did I mention it's COLD outside?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

143 Lives are at immediate risk.

Well, that's a dang shame. Anyway.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)

145 (WONhk)

134
I mean, have you ever been stuck in a conversation with someone who just talks and talks and never really has a theme of what they're talking about and goes down all kinds of little side trails that don't link up with the rest of what they're saying and they just like the sound of their voice and think they're so smart you'll be impressed by the never-ending cascade of words and....
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (tgvbd)

Is one of the possible answers "every woman I'm related to"???

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (M4qcY)

146 137 TRex

Thanks T! However, I'm saving myself for Saturday 🤪...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (aa8rj)

147 Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

Lives are at immediate risk.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

Banana anyone?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (COQGW)

148 Doggo! Saw your comment from last night's ONT this morning. Let me see if I have this right: you three have agreed to have a Santa at Saturday night's Club ONT party - but you will be seating him OUTSIDE? In the cold? I know, next to a fire - but this is Santa we are talking about. And did I mention it's COLD outside?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Heck, seat him at our table, while not good, I myself have been spectacularly mediocre.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)

149 seating him OUTSIDE? In the cold? I know, next to a fire - but this is Santa we are talking about. And did I mention it's COLD outside?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Wait until you see the fire.

Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (41CYW)

150 T Rex the other bombs being carried by the Skyraider drives home the point there was a bomb shortage.

It was the same Korean War bombs aboard Forrestal that killed so many. The more modern bombs have a 30 second delay you could say before cooking off. All these old bombs did not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (2GVsD)

151 and the whole thing was a big fucking stupid waste that accomplished nothing

FUCKING IDIOTS
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

Yeah, something tells me that they never intended to actually starve to death. The posers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

152
The new intelligence assessment claims Washington, under the Trump administration, is aggressively reasserting its national interests—something globalist governments in Europe have thus far not been prepared to deal with.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (Cjcf6)

___________

Apparently the duty of the US is to shut up and do what the EU says. To which I say, piss on that noise.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (tgvbd)

153 I thought I had some nice ornaments as my parents would get one every year.. then I found Henry Ford museum has them all on display.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (/lPRQ)

154 142 Doggo! Saw your comment from last night's ONT this morning. Let me see if I have this right: you three have agreed to have a Santa at Saturday night's Club ONT party - but you will be seating him OUTSIDE? In the cold? I know, next to a fire - but this is Santa we are talking about. And did I mention it's COLD outside?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10

You know, some of us have copies of the keys to the new ballroom addition. We could relocate him upon making a command decision. Only thing they can do is stamp our meal card no dessert, JQ would ignore that anyway.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (Wmg4n)

155 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (2GVsD)

156 Give them those Olestra potato chips. And Haribo sugar-free Gummi Bears.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That would unfairly punish hospital staff.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (0Htd1)

157 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.

Oh. That explains why I don't get it.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 10:45 PM (3nLb4)

158 Good news, there are five more people who won't need Ozempic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:45 PM (2GVsD)

159 Who was hunger strike guy in the late 70s early 80s? Bobby so and so or Gary? irish. Sinn Finn? I remember that. Hope he died.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:46 PM (6p0Jv)

160 Savatage is fucking outstanding.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus

I'm pleased to know that Savatage finds favor among the Horde. I wasn't sure about including it.
Posted by: TRex - deep cut dino

Be sure!

The counterpoint vocals that show up in some TSO songs? That was a Savatage thing, too.

First heard near the end of "Chance," in 1994:

https://youtu.be/pqWg3QRAMSA

And in the closer of the Dead Winter Dead concept album, "Not What You See":

https://youtu.be/PR17ynfz8qI

"Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24" is DWD's penultimate track.

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE)

161 {{{TiFW}}}

Prayers ascending!

Wishing you a pain-free recovery and a Merry Christmas.

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

162
Dang, just looking at the weather station data, I had a quite a pressure drop today, going from 30.06" to 29.67". Wonder my ears didn't pop...

Back during that winter storm of the century in '93, which set low pressure records all over the SE and east coast on up north pretty good, it fell so fast, some did swear their ears did pop.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (w6EFb)

163 I'll be going on a Hunger Strike until 7AM EST. Good night, will post on The Morning Report, if I survive.

Posted by: Full, Up To Here at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (oftw2)

164 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Whine to the u.n. who will send a strongly worded letter to President Trump...who will wipe his ass with it.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (TfUTr)

165 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Taunt us a second time?

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE)

166 A comedy in 2 acts:

Act 1

92 I don't understand hunger strikes.

"Give me my way, or I'll starve myself!" Ok.

Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?

Have a sandwich. Or don't. I don't care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (UGyV5)

Act 2

144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (UGyV5)

167 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
-----

Ok, so Trump should do a couple of things:

1. Symbolically "donate" the oil to The Strategic Reserve.

2. Then "donate" the tanker to the Naval Academy as a training vessel.

The left will howl, but they always howl. Those who get what's going on will love it.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (Cjcf6)

168 166 A comedy in 2 acts:

Act 1

92 I don't understand hunger strikes.

"Give me my way, or I'll starve myself!" Ok.

Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?

Have a sandwich. Or don't. I don't care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (UGyV5)

Act 2

144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (UGyV5)

I guess I'm indecent...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

169 Maybe we should drop a toilet on Maduro

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (2GVsD)

170 Hey, do you think JQ needs help putting up more lights for the Club ONT Christmas party on Saturday?

Posted by: TRex - drinkerating dino at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq

I volunteer to help JQ drunkorate. No one at home enjoys the colored lights and Blow Mold santa .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (6p0Jv)
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Sure! Bring your favorite decorations!

TRex, you found that special box of lights in the store room, didn't you?

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (rdVOm)

171 Your tanker, it's mine. It's my tanker.

Posted by: Orangeman, Lord of the Oceans at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (COQGW)

172 167 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
-----

Ok, so Trump should do a couple of things:

1. Symbolically "donate" the oil to The Strategic Reserve.

2. Then "donate" the tanker to the Naval Academy as a training vessel.

The left will howl, but they always howl. Those who get what's going on will love it.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (Cjcf6)

Use it to transport illegal aliens back home?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

173 Teresa in Fort Worth...

May God be with those entrusted with your care...

Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 10:49 PM (XuXeR)

174 Prayers up for Teresa and Paul.

Posted by: KT at December 10, 2025 10:49 PM (7vIsy)

175 Trump makes it a sea going golf course of course.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)

176 I will be looking for epithets in AoSHQ nics now.

Posted by: KT at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (7vIsy)

177 You know, some of us have copies of the keys to the new ballroom addition. We could relocate him upon making a command decision. Only thing they can do is stamp our meal card no dessert, JQ would ignore that anyway.
Posted by: Piper
*******
Girlfriend! Yes, please. Seriously, what are they thinking? I dropped off the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, and now they want it back. I left the receipt near the cash register and hope someone picks it up before Saturday at noon, when they close. I'd do it, but I'm busy with cookie dough, icing and sprinkles for dozens of cookies...I'm beginning to feel like you on Sunday night!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq)

178
Use it to transport illegal aliens back home?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

________

Operation Magic Carpet 2!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (tgvbd)

179 Hunger strike... bah, pikers. They should hold their breath instead.

I'd gladly assist, with duct tape and clothespins!

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

180 Commie / Third World prisons preempt hunger strikes.

Posted by: No Soup For you !! at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (KDPiq)

181 Is it just me or does the blonde with the impressive...aahhh...bewbs look less than happy to be where she is? And with the dudes hand on her neck?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

182
A Mel Tucker / Sharonne Moore podcast / radio show is more than what you want.

It's what America needs.

Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (Y8DZL)

183 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.

Oh. That explains why I don't get it.
Posted by: Oddbob

It might be a Gen X thing. We were told to finish our meals and not waste food because there were starving children in Africa.

So some political such-and-such intentionally not eating his food has to be evil, right? Think of the children!

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)

184
I was reading that Trump 1.0 wanted to seize Venezuelan tankers, but the RINOs and cucks balked. Trump 2.0 learned his lesson about putting the right people in.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (w6EFb)

185 Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?"

Sure. There was this lady who said "won't somebody help that poor man? "

Might have been in a movie....

Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (XuXeR)

186 170 TRex, you found that special box of lights in the store room, didn't you?

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM
***
Yes! I plugged them in and they looked marvelous! Then I stepped on one of the bulbs and the whole string went out. Damn vintage light strings. Sorry about that. There may be others in the storeroom, but I didn't look out of fear of doing more damage.

Posted by: TRex - clumsy dino at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

187 The intelligence service of Denmark, a NATO ‘ally’ currently under the rule of left-liberal globalists, has caused quite the stir across Europe and the globe after it labeled the United States as a potential security concern, a stunning shift for a country long conditioned to defer to NATO orthodoxy.

Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

188 Dear Denmark

We are cancelling the extended warranty on your F-35s.

The USA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (2GVsD)

189 Girlfriend! Yes, please. Seriously, what are they thinking? I dropped off the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, and now they want it back. I left the receipt near the cash register and hope someone picks it up before Saturday at noon, when they close. I'd do it, but I'm busy with cookie dough, icing and sprinkles for dozens of cookies...I'm beginning to feel like you on Sunday night!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq)

I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (Wmg4n)

190 Is it just me or does the blonde with the impressive...aahhh...bewbs look less than happy to be where she is? And with the dudes hand on her neck?

Judging from the seating and his shirt, they're at a baseball game and he's mansplaining the infield fly rule.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (3nLb4)

191 Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

And butter cookies are right out!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (COQGW)

192 Savatage wasn't bad; I prefer the original Grieg piece.

https://youtu.be/OqvHWUZZdP0

I actually like the entire Peer Gynt suite.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (ynpvh)

193 Who was hunger strike guy in the late 70s early 80s? Bobby so and so or Gary? irish. Sinn Finn? I remember that. Hope he died.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:46 PM (6p0Jv)

Yep. Bobby Sands and his diet.

Sinn Fein (Shin Fain). Proper commie rat bastards they are.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)

194 Sounds like the opening of the series 'Dead Like Me', a toilet seat flying down from the Mir Space Station killing Ellen Muth, the lead character.
Posted by: RickZ

Heh. I thought the same. We binge-watched the whole series earlier this year. Enjoyed it. Decided not to watch the follow-up movie to avoid disappointment.

Posted by: mindful webworker - reap what you sew at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (zKAC0)

195 Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.
Posted by: nerdygirl

And sugar cookies in those metal cans.

Posted by: Danegeld at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (oftw2)

196 I am going on a hunger strike until the Somalians aren't retarded. Ot until I need a sammich.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (6p0Jv)

197 144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Hunger strikes work on decent people? Uh, oh.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

198 187 The intelligence service of Denmark, a NATO ‘ally’ currently under the rule of left-liberal globalists, has caused quite the stir across Europe and the globe after it labeled the United States as a potential security concern, a stunning shift for a country long conditioned to defer to NATO orthodoxy.

Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)

199 You know, some of us have copies of the keys to the new ballroom addition. We could relocate him upon making a command decision. Only thing they can do is stamp our meal card no dessert, JQ would ignore that anyway.
Posted by: Piper
---------

Here's the "outdoor" space. Thought I posted it the other night?

https://tinyurl.com/4y2v6rzy

****Don't worry, Doof! Pic was taken before I added COLORED LIGHTS and put up the plexiglass panels for wind-block****

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (rdVOm)

200 I wish to go on hunger strike
Like fearless leader ace
No eat for days

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (tcsrY)

201 I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.
Posted by: Piper
**********
Excellent, have none of those. Let me get thru tomorrow and I'll list what I'll be bringing.
I think we need to be considered for the dental plan...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (IQ6Gq)

202 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

You think "decent people" would resort to this "rectal feeding"?!
Just glad that lobster wasn't on the menu...

- GITMO Prisoner No 153

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (/lPRQ)

203 Dear Denmark, we are enacting a no fly zone and naval blockade of Greenland.

Yours truly,

The United States of America.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (g47mK)

204
155 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (2GVsD)

Hey Anna, I posted this in the previous thread, but nobody in media has noticed or understood what just happened - most brilliant move by Trump and Hegseth yet. 3 primary effects:
1) this tanker was headed for Cuba, which has an antiquated, failing oil powered system for all of their power production. The loss of this tanker might cause the grid to go down for the entire island (again)
2) Maduro desperately needed the money from this shipment for his associates and other expenses, since the loss of the drug boats is hurting him and his partners badly.
3) this ship was part of the Russian "shadow fleet" so it was a nice little way to kick Putin in the teeth as well.

That's a lot of billiard balls to get moving with one little shot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (M4qcY)

205
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow.
Posted by: Piper

You shake the cookies and "snow" flies?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (H1HTt)

206 In other military news, Boeing has finished converting the 127th and last F-16 to QF-16 drone status.

The US have more QF-16 drones than some nations who operate the F-16 with pilots.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (2GVsD)

207 183 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.

Oh. That explains why I don't get it.
Posted by: Oddbob

It might be a Gen X thing. We were told to finish our meals and not waste food because there were starving children in Africa.

So some political such-and-such intentionally not eating his food has to be evil, right? Think of the children!

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)

I was told about the starving children in China...Maybe that was pre-1980...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

208 You think "decent people" would resort to this "rectal feeding"?!
Just glad that lobster wasn't on the menu...

Looking forward to Pineapple Night!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (COQGW)

209 So why did we seize the oil tanker? Were their drugs onboard?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (sKqQm)

210 Tom Servo

Don't forget Maduro is in bed with the Mullahs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (2GVsD)

211 Yep. Bobby Sands and his diet.

Sinn Fein (Shin Fain). Proper commie rat bastards they are.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)

That's the guy! I remember the helpful media counting down the days he was hungry. Oh noes.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (6p0Jv)

212 I am going on a hunger strike until the Somalians aren't retarded. Ot until I need a sammich.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Heh!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (TfUTr)

213 >> this tanker was headed for Cuba, which has an antiquated, failing oil powered system for all of their power production.

Just reading that while Cuba has publicly condemned the imperial US military build up, they are privately talking about "what the region will look like without Maduro".

They've already got the message.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (w6EFb)

214 Alright, y'all hunger strikers asked for it!

https://youtu.be/VUb450Alpps

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (nhCoE)

215 Is Raul Castro still alive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

216 You knwo you could make a decent movie about a retired Bond.

Have him chilling in a retirement home when he finds out there is a plot by a new version of Spectre to kill off the elderly via a fake vaccine and he has to stop Faucifinger and Bidenfeld from killing off a bunch of people...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (sKqQm)

217 205
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow.
Posted by: Piper

You shake the cookies and "snow" flies?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (H1HTt)

In theory and on paper, yes.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (Wmg4n)

218 does anybody use venezuelan oil besides US and chinese?

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (L8VMA)

219 Soup's first encounter with those cookies will be very funny.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (2GVsD)

220 Is Raul Castro still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

As far as I know, but Diaz-Canel Singao is probably still in charge

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (rbvCR)

221 216 You knwo you could make a decent movie about a retired Bond.

Have him chilling in a retirement home when he finds out there is a plot by a new version of Spectre to kill off the elderly via a fake vaccine and he has to stop Faucifinger and Bidenfeld from killing off a bunch of people...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (sKqQm)

If only Brian Dennehy was still alive...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (ynpvh)

222 I was told about the starving children in China...Maybe that was pre-1980...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

223 I guess I'm indecent...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

But morons are allowed to not wear pants, so it's okay.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (0Htd1)

224 [Grateful making note to self to tell Santa on Saturday that she was not involved in any way in the decision to have him outside...would never do that to "the man" who has the list and checks it twice}

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

225 "Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel sent a message on Saturday to the authorities and people of Venezuela, reaffirming the island’s support for the South American nation in the face of U.S. hostility."

of course

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (rbvCR)

226 I would think the Ethiopians would still be feasting on Sally Struthers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

227
Has grammy winger been around?

Rev was bad shape, last I heard.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (H1HTt)

228 209 So why did we seize the oil tanker? Were their drugs onboard?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (sKqQm)

Is that a parrot on your shoulder, Captain?
-reporter at press conference

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (bss/y)

229 219 Soup's first encounter with those cookies will be very funny.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (2GVsD)

He has been stealing stockings and killing them all day. He is still traumatized currently from my sneeze that resulted in a scared cat accidentally landing on him.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (Wmg4n)

230 Posted by: TRex - clumsy dino at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM
------

That's okay. Those were old but not especially valuable.

No, there should be a few strings of these in there, I was saving them for you!:

https://tinyurl.com/2hfrh4t6

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)

231
144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (UGyV5)

I guess I'm indecent...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

Did she mean easily deceived people? Cause decent people would tell that brat to stop emotionally blackmailing others.

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (wLjpr)

232 219 Soup's first encounter with those cookies will be very funny.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (2GVsD

And he got a pup cup from Starbucks today. They thought he was adorable.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (Wmg4n)

233 Did you record the cat performing a landing the dog?

Were arrestor claws used?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (2GVsD)

234 223 I guess I'm indecent...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

But morons are allowed to not wear pants, so it's okay.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (0Htd1)

Yeah, I was sitting there in the recliner, watching TV without my pants...the trouble came in when they kicked me out of the store.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (ynpvh)

235 "Possessor of Splendor", you know, the fella that came up with that one was...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (Exvay)

236 I was told about the starving children in China...Maybe that was pre-1980...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.
Posted by: RickZ

Ok mom, feel free to mail them my portion of whatever this lower middle class glop is.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (TfUTr)

237 Has grammy winger been around?

Rev was bad shape, last I heard.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (H1HTt)

Seems like I saw grammie a couple weeks ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (bss/y)

238 Dear Denmark, we are enacting a no fly zone and naval blockade of Greenland.

Yours truly,

The United States of America.
-----

Love it. Of course we could just announce that we were no longer committed to the defense of nations who didn't respect the very rights our nation was founded on.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)

239
Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?

Am I being too cynical & paranoid?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (H1HTt)

240 [Grateful making note to self to tell Santa on Saturday that she was not involved in any way in the decision to have him outside...would never do that to "the man" who has the list and checks it twice}
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
--------

Don't panic, Grateful! See my @199

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

241 Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel sent a message on Saturday to the authorities and people of Venezuela, reaffirming the island’s support for the South American nation in the face of U.S. hostility.

How nice. It must be like walking through scary dark alley and realizing that David Hogg is right there at your side.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (COQGW)

242 And he got a pup cup from Starbucks today. They thought he was adorable.

they have to say that, even muslim baristas

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (L8VMA)

243 233 Did you record the cat performing a landing the dog?

Were arrestor claws used?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025

No, I didn’t realize just sneezing would cause that chain of events. No claws, but very nasty language like somehow it was Saijo’s fault.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:04 PM (Wmg4n)

244 How nice. It must be like walking through scary dark alley and realizing that David Hogg is right there at your side.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (COQGW)

And he brought his backstabbin' knife.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:04 PM (bss/y)

245 Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?

Am I being too cynical & paranoid?

everything is an op these days, trust nobody unconditionally

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (L8VMA)

246
And sugar cookies in those metal cans.

Posted by: Danegeld at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (oftw2)

I thought those all had sewing stuff in them - ours NEVER had cookies!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (wLjpr)

247 242 And he got a pup cup from Starbucks today. They thought he was adorable.

they have to say that, even muslim baristas
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (L8VMA)

I don’t think we have those in Alabama and I will have you know he is disgustingly cute. 😂

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (Wmg4n)

248 Am I being too cynical & paranoid?

"No matter how cynical I get, I can never keep up."
-- Lily Tomlin

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (3nLb4)

249 222 I was told about the starving children in China...Maybe that was pre-1980...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

It was the starving children of Cambodia in the early 70s. I remember the TV commercials

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (6p0Jv)

250 230 No, there should be a few strings of these in there, I was saving them for you!:

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM
***
Outstanding! They will add a touch of class to the place. I'm sure you'll find a good place for them!! Thank you!

Posted by: TRex - light up my life dino at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

251 [Grateful making note to self to tell Santa on Saturday that she was not involved in any way in the decision to have him outside...would never do that to "the man" who has the list and checks it twice}
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
--------
Don't panic, Grateful! See my @199
Posted by: JQ
***********
Thank goodness someone is taking this seriously...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

252 Just a little tweaking:

"Live and Let Die- (Do-not-Resuscitate)"

Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (dIske)

253 It was the same Korean War bombs aboard Forrestal that killed so many. The more modern bombs have a 30 second delay you could say before cooking off. All these old bombs did not.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The Forrestal? I was there...
- Some old dude who happened to be in our open office when a few of us were joking on John "My Turn" McCain.

Old dude answered they question, "Didn't he also almost sink an aircraft carrier?"

Old Dude told us hiw his flight just got back from a mission when shit hit the fan...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)

254 I don’t think we have those in Alabama and I will have you know he is disgustingly cute

business is slow for sbux

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (L8VMA)

255 215 Is Raul Castro still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma

As much as you can be at his age and situation.

If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.

Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)

256 246
And sugar cookies in those metal cans.

Posted by: Danegeld at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (oftw2)

I thought those all had sewing stuff in them - ours NEVER had cookies!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (wLjpr)

Hah! Yeah, I know. Reminds me when I was in Mexico visiting my maternal grandmother and great-grandmother...my Mom said when we heard the music (the popsicle guy, it turned out), she told us NOT to go outside as it was the tax man...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)

257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (0Htd1)

258 Hey there everyone. Just finished hitting golf balls at an indoor simulator. Now enjoying a frosty cold beverage at the bar. Is it too late to bring one of these simulators in for the party on Saturday?

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (XvF0J)

259 does anybody use venezuelan oil besides US and chinese?
----

Someone earlier today pointed out that their oil is rougher than ours and requires a higher level of refining.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (Cjcf6)

260 Nicholas II was kinda doomed.
His grandfather, Alexander II, was a reformer who liberated the serfs, was still assassinated by radicals despite his liberalism.

So Nicholas’ father, Alexander III, was quite the reactionary after his father was killed and he proceeded to crack down hard on the radicals and revolutionaries for decades.

By the time Nicholas was crowned the die was cast for revolution. WWI pretty much ended any chances things would turn out differently.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (6ydKt)

261 It was the starving children of Cambodia in the early 70s. I remember the TV commercials

radio?

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (L8VMA)

262 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (0Htd1)

I'm so happy for her about that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)

263 when we heard the music (the popsicle guy, it turned out), she told us NOT to go outside as it was the tax man...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)

The tax man had a jingle???? In Jordan the music van was for propane tanks!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (wLjpr)

264 Venezuelan crude IIRC has a very high Sulphur content.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

265 Someone earlier today pointed out that their oil is rougher than ours and requires a higher level of refining.
Posted by: Crusader

yeah its garbage, we and the chinese have the ability to refine such garbage not sure anybody else does

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (L8VMA)

266 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl

And she's already been traumatized by Trump calling her fat. I mean, geez, how much should the chunky cow have to endure.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (0Htd1)

267 Someone earlier today pointed out that their oil is rougher than ours and requires a higher level of refining.

Yeah. For some reason it's full of sulphur.

Go figure.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (COQGW)

268 263 when we heard the music (the popsicle guy, it turned out), she told us NOT to go outside as it was the tax man...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)

The tax man had a jingle???? In Jordan the music van was for propane tanks!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (wLjpr)

He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

269 It's the Devil's own crude.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)

270 24 ...Oh, and surgery is scheduled for 2:30 pm and should last 3-4 hours if all goes according to plan. So you probably won't get an update from Paul until tomorrow evening sometime - didn't want anyone to worry too soon!

Thank you SO MUCH for all of the prayers - we really do appreciate it! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)

Teresa - I'm praying for you (and Paul) now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (0CU3H)

271 Yeah. For some reason it's full of sulphur.

Venezuelan dinosaurs ate a lot of eggs.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (3nLb4)

272 Hey there everyone. Just finished hitting golf balls at an indoor simulator. Now enjoying a frosty cold beverage at the bar. Is it too late to bring one of these simulators in for the party on Saturday?
Posted by: Doof
**********
Sounds good...just as long as someone picks up the Santa suit from the dry cleaners before Saturday at noon. The dry cleaners on Main St, not the one on State St.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

273 His grandfather, Alexander II, was a reformer who liberated the serfs, was still assassinated by radicals despite his liberalism.

His legs got blown off by an anarchist's bomb.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (COQGW)

274 264 Venezuelan crude IIRC has a very high Sulphur content.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

Oh, THAT'S what Hugo meant when he mentioned the smell of Sulphur while at the podium at the UN...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

275 266 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl

And she's already been traumatized by Trump calling her fat. I mean, geez, how much should the chunky cow have to endure.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (0Htd1)

Watch out or she'll go whaling on you...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

276 Yeah Hugo Chavez was smelling his own farts that day.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (2GVsD)

277 On hunger strike, eh?
What would you be having today, shish kabob or en Fuego California burrito? Chef's surprise? OK.

- GITMO Guard

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)

278 Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?

Am I being too cynical & paranoid?

---
I believe the government is untrustworthy. I help people I know. And not all of them. Not everyone is helpable.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (6p0Jv)

279 "The Wednesday ONT has no time for hidden musical themes"

Hidden musical themes are dumb

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (XvF0J)

280 Hey there everyone. Just finished hitting golf balls at an indoor simulator.

why do you need some simulator, easier to go indoors

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (L8VMA)

281
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

Hmmm...just realized that Mom also told us she never lied...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

282 255 215 Is Raul Castro still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma

As much as you can be at his age and situation.

If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)

Blast out TR's face and replace it with Trump on Rushmore.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 11:12 PM (0CU3H)

283
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

Dang, your mom was tough! My kids were little when we were in Jordan and asked for money for popsicles when they heard the music. The disappointment that followed when the driver started to hand them a tank of gas...

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:12 PM (wLjpr)

284 What imposing peak in the lower 48 we can rename Mt. Trump?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (2GVsD)

285 279 "The Wednesday ONT has no time for hidden musical themes"

Hidden musical themes are dumb
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11

You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

286 That wing toilet is frigging hysterical. I can't stop laughing. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (snZF9)

287 283
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

Dang, your mom was tough! My kids were little when we were in Jordan and asked for money for popsicles when they heard the music. The disappointment that followed when the driver started to hand them a tank of gas...

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:12 PM (wLjpr)

LOL! The looks on their faces must've been priceless!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

288 If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)
______________________

I'm starting to wonder whether Trump dangled a carrot in front of Marco Rubio. "Look. If you show me complete allegiance, and do what I say rather than whomever was giving you your marching orders before, I'll take a stab at Cuba. Still have relatives down there, don't you?"

Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)

289 Sounds good...just as long as someone picks up the Santa suit from the dry cleaners before Saturday at noon. The dry cleaners on Main St, not the one on State St.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

Have we figured out who's wearing said suit?

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (XvF0J)

290 285 279 "The Wednesday ONT has no time for hidden musical themes"

Hidden musical themes are dumb
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11

You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

She has beans?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (ynpvh)

291 >> What imposing peak in the lower 48 we can rename Mt. Trump?

Hell, let's name Olympus Mons on Mars after him, the biggest mountain in the whole damned solar system...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (w6EFb)

292
Hidden musical themes are dumb
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (XvF0J)

________

"Hey!" - Sir Edward Elgar

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (tgvbd)

293 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl

FINGERS CANNOT MELT PUSSY!

Posted by: rosie o'doughnuts at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (AX0w3)

294 264 Venezuelan crude IIRC has a very high Sulphur content.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

Heh. I remember during the 90s, one of the areas that Clinton made a nature preserve and hence not allowed to be exploited by mining, had a vast field of coal with an ultra LOW sulfur content... which was opposed to the Chinese coal which had a high sulfur content.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (bss/y)

295 yeah its garbage, we and the chinese have the ability to refine such garbage not sure anybody else does
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (L8VMA)

The Cubans probably use it for bunker fuel to power the power stations.
It is also useful for making diesel, which sweet light crude doesn't do so well.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (rbvCR)

296 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (M4qcY)

Are we at war with any of the participants in this?

Kinda puts the whole US Navy Freedom of the Seas mission in perspective.

We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (mP0Kj)

297 Many of us grew up with the "eat, there's starving children in China (or Africa)" rule.

Back when Nixon first went to China, the Doonesbury character Duke (I think it was, based on Hunter S. Thompson) went with him. They were at a state dinner, and Duke did a great double-take when a mother sitting near him said to her child, "Eat. There are starving children in Appalachia."

Once upon a time, Doonesbury was still funny.

Posted by: mindful webworker - At last as funny as first-season SNL at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (zKAC0)

298 239
Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?

Am I being too cynical & paranoid?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (H1HTt)

There were rumors (just rumors, no public evidence or public accusations) that the General in charge of the Southern Command, who was forced into early retirement by Hegseth just prior to this all starting, had way too many personal contacts and personal relationships with those running both Venezuela and Columbia.

And on a completely unrelated note, the CFO of the DEA under Obama was just arrested and charged with setting up a multimillion dollar money laundering scheme for the Cartels.
(OH but no he never took money from the cartels while he was part of the DEA's top level, nah why would you think that?)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (M4qcY)

299 The Cubans probably use it for bunker fuel to power the power stations.
It is also useful for making diesel, which sweet light crude doesn't do so well.
Posted by: Kin

asphalt

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (L8VMA)

300 293 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl

FINGERS CANNOT MELT PUSSY!

Posted by: rosie o'doughnuts at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (AX0w3)

The Paolo has his ways...

Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (ynpvh)

301 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

Beans?

Boobs autocucumber?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (bss/y)

302 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

Haha! Nice callback

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (XvF0J)

303 I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.
Posted by: Piper

I've made stained glass cookies a time or two. They came out okay, kind of a pain to make. Snow globe cookies sound...complicated.

Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (B1U/i)

304 I wonder, did the US lean on Caracas not to pop Hugo Chavez after his first coup attempt failed?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)

305 291 >> What imposing peak in the lower 48 we can rename Mt. Trump?

Hell, let's name Olympus Mons on Mars after him, the biggest mountain in the whole damned solar system...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (w6EFb)

I dunno. Whenever I hear about Olympus Mons, Mons Pubis pops in my head...

Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (ynpvh)

306 If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)

Carve his face on the moon. Leftists will be forced to see it until the end of the solar system.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (snZF9)

307 ...off sock...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:17 PM (ynpvh)

308
It makes absolutely No Sense we tolerated Castro to rule an island 90 miles off our shores.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:17 PM (H1HTt)

309 301 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

Beans?

Boobs autocucumber?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10

Apparently I caused a ruckus last night and then dipped on the ONT, leaving the mess in my wake to Doof. Some people are just touchy about their fiber, I guess!

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:17 PM (Wmg4n)

310 His face on the Moon?

Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)

311
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.
Posted by: Piper

________

If not, you have a mobile garbage disposal to take them off your hands.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (tgvbd)

312 Pammy Anderson, LOL. I liked how Tripping the Rift portrayed her...

https://youtu.be/qLEdrGFQ9nM

Guess, hahahahaha!

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (rdVOm)

313 guessing we're screwing with venezuela, besides the obvious reginal hegemony thing, to fuck with china's access to crude, then off to Argentina so we toss the sat tracking site out.

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:19 PM (L8VMA)

314 301 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

Beans?

Boobs autocucumber?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (bss/y)

If she was Mexican, that WOULD be an insult. Never insult a Mexican woman's beans...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:19 PM (ynpvh)

315 I'm starting to wonder whether Trump dangled a carrot in front of Marco Rubio. "Look. If you show me complete allegiance, and do what I say rather than whomever was giving you your marching orders before, I'll take a stab at Cuba. Still have relatives down there, don't you?"
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)

Marco has always had it in for Castroagonia, I think that was why he was a neocon to begin with. It is part and parcel to being a Cuban in Florida. The end of Communist Cuba was probably his ask.
Rubio is going to give a speech in the Plaza de la Revolucion to announce the new, free Cuba if he has anything to say about it,

It was pointed out to me that Rubio is the most powerful SoS since Kissinger. That is not by accident on anyone's part

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:19 PM (rbvCR)

316
I've made stained glass cookies a time or two. They came out okay, kind of a pain to make. Snow globe cookies sound...complicated.
Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered

I know. I don’t know why I get myself into these things.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:20 PM (Wmg4n)

317 We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?
Posted by: Romeo13

They made the rules. And yes, they're at war with us.

Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:20 PM (Y8DZL)

318 I am off to bed. I will do a cookie update tomorrow.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:21 PM (Wmg4n)

319 Night Piper.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)

320 Teresa - prayers up!

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 10, 2025 11:21 PM (3ZUWJ)

321 Here is something that caught me by surprise.

Back in 2020, the IIRG was going to kidnap an American citizen who was born in Iran, stuff her on a boat, take her to Venezuela, and then fly her to Tehran to make her vanish.

Luckily the FBI was not asleep this time or working for the other side. They stopped the plot by relocating the woman.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

322 Cookies...I remember at one workplace a vendor had left us cookies, and I mean GIANT cookies: about 8" diameter cookies. One mechanical engineer was looking at the one on his plate and loudly commented, "Look at the size of THOSE cookies!" just as a female programmer walked by...she apparently thought he was talking about her chest...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)

323 301 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)
Beans?
Boobs autocucumber?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Thank you for that. I was trying to figure out what "beans" was a euphemism for.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (0Htd1)

324 How did people not see Bing Crosby as a dysfunctional old alcoholic dad? I hate watching his movies.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (6p0Jv)

325 asphalt
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (L8VMA)

I saw a vid that supposedly of the outflow of a Cuban oil well. It was so thick that the workers standing at the end of the pipe were cutting it with machetes as it came out like it was some unending can of jellied cranberry sauce.

Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

326 I need to snooze also. Ciao.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

327 We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (mP0Kj)

What we are doing right now is telling the entire world that WE rule the seas now, and they do not. Sure Iran, go ahead and FA ; your FO is coming.

Both Cuba and Venezuela are tottering on the edge of collapse. I think it was Nietzche who said that anything ready to fall deserves to be pushed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (4IClK)

328 Prayers, Teresa.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)

329 Night Anna Puma.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (ynpvh)

330 The police scanner incident with the transformer reminds me of something that happened to me. There was a thunderstorm in the area and there was a flash of lightning, simultaneous crack of thunder and my power goes out. I call the local power company and tell them that lightning hit the transformer across the street. They ask how I know. I explain that there was lightning, simultaneous thunder, my power is out and the transformer across the street is on fire and there is black smoke pouring off it. I tell them that I am guessing a bit about the lightning hitting the transformer but the fact it is on fire seems relevant. They laughed and promised a service truck as soon as possible.

Posted by: JB1000 at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (tLjC6)

331 I saw a vid that supposedly of the outflow of a Cuban oil well. It was so thick that the workers standing at the end of the pipe were cutting it with machetes as it came out like it was some unending can of jellied cranberry sauce.

Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kin

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (L8VMA)

332 We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?
----

Its pretty easy once you embrace that announced wars don't come even close to the number of enemies that are already actively working against you.

And I could complain about Iran putting plastics into a regular garbage can--I look forward to the day its referred to again as "Persia".

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (Cjcf6)

333
Both Cuba and Venezuela are tottering on the edge of collapse. I think it was Nietzche who said that anything ready to fall deserves to be pushed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (4IClK)

Nietzche was a cat?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:25 PM (ynpvh)

334
House dogs given a last turnout, kennel dogs put up and fed, evening prayers said. Good night, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:25 PM (tgvbd)

335 317 We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?
Posted by: Romeo13

They made the rules. And yes, they're at war with us.
Posted by: Auspex
---

Yes. Be done with formalities and take them over. Or, in cases like Ukraine, disassociate from them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:26 PM (CnLH3)

336 Both Cuba and Venezuela are tottering on the edge of collapse. I think it was Nietzche who said that anything ready to fall deserves to be pushed.

he's great in theory, otherwise not so much

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:26 PM (L8VMA)

337 Migawd. Raimundo has achieved Variety-Speak!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:27 PM (rbvCR)

338 Night Hadrian

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)

339 Take Cuba and develop it, not as a state but as a property. It would make a beautiful tourist destination.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:28 PM (CnLH3)

340 Toilet bomb on a Skyraider flying from the Big E, USS Enterprise. For model airplane builders, its available to add to a scale model airplane. Thanks for a great post!

Posted by: KungPow at December 10, 2025 11:29 PM (Rw2Dy)

341 I think I'll retire for the evening as well. Gotta start prepping for my surgery Monday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)

342 I saw a vid that supposedly of the outflow of a Cuban oil well. It was so thick that the workers standing at the end of the pipe were cutting it with machetes as it came out like it was some unending can of jellied cranberry sauce.

Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

That sounds like some of the Venezuelan fields, too. People who say "Venezuela has more oil than the Saudis" don't understand that a lot of it is thick hard to deal with glop like that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:30 PM (4IClK)

343 2 I think I'll retire for the evening as well. Gotta start prepping for my surgery Monday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

God Bless. May your surgery go well

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:31 PM (6p0Jv)

344 Have we figured out who's wearing said suit?
Posted by: Doof
**************
Excellent question, but way above my pay grade. Night all....

Posted by: The Grateful at December 10, 2025 11:31 PM (IQ6Gq)

345 His grandfather, Alexander II, was a reformer who liberated the serfs, was still assassinated by radicals despite his liberalism.
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His legs got blown off by an anarchist's bomb.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (COQGW)

Lenin's brother was hanged in the aftermath of that assassination. Some say it helped radicalize ol' Vlad. That's not something easily dismissed.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)

346 Good evening morons e grazie Dino

I absolutely love polynike's painting on top. Energy, color, and creativity. *chef's kiss*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 11:32 PM (A0sqA)

347 Thank you for that. I was trying to figure out what "beans" was a euphemism for.
Posted by: nerdygirl

It was a euphemism for beans, believe it or not. Previous ONT wanderings included the health benefits of beans, after the Content included record-breaking farts.

And also Pamela Anderson.

Though it should have been George Wendt.

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 11:32 PM (nhCoE)

348 he's great in theory, otherwise not so much
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:26 PM (L8VMA)

"The difference between theory and practice; well in theory there isn't any. But in practice, there is."

- Yogi Berra

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:34 PM (4IClK)

349 Hello Horde, praying for you, Teresa.

JQ, I will grab the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, no worries. How did things go with your BIL?

Seems like everybody is making cookies, I'll bring a pot of meatballs and a big tray of chicken wings on Saturday.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 11:35 PM (0nHVk)

350 DataRepublican has a lot of stuff about Venezuela if you search her posts.

She calls it the hub of all sorts of anti-US subversion, foreign (China being a big one) and domestic (they support Antifa, and Soros shit).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 11:36 PM (w6EFb)

351 TIFW
Hitting my knees for ya.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 11:37 PM (2WIwB)

352 If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)

Blast out TR's face and replace it with Trump on Rushmore.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Crazy Horse would work.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (/lPRQ)

353 Apparently New Jersey has a "medically assisted suicide" law now?

You know what's not "medical"? "Assisting" people commit suicide. Every damned individual who lifted a finger to make this happen deserves a lot more than just being called out for it.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (Cjcf6)

354 Once upon a time, Doonesbury was still funny.
Posted by: mindful webworker - At last as funny as first-season SNL at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (zKAC0)

I remember one from the Sunday funny pages in the 1990s.

It had the college prof guy talking to a class about what would be required.

He said 10 years ago, it was 7 books and two papers. 5 years ago it was 4 books and a paper. This year is 1 book.

A kid in the back stood up and said, 'I have to read a book? I'm outta here.'

Yep, it could still be funny.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (gKDq2)

355 Hello Horde, praying for you, Teresa.

JQ, I will grab the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, no worries. How did things go with your BIL?

Seems like everybody is making cookies, I'll bring a pot of meatballs and a big tray of chicken wings on Saturday.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
----------

Thanks, DDS! You're a life-saver!

Hmm. Can never go wrong with a crockpot of Lil Smokies in BBQ sauce. I'll bring that.

*Chivas rocks for Debby*

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:41 PM (rdVOm)

356 "310 His face on the Moon?

Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)"

I kinda had that idea first you bastards!

Posted by: Chainface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:42 PM (ZfTMG)

357 enator Chris Van Hollen@ChrisVanHollen . 7h

As Trump continues to manufacture a cover story for armed conflict with Venezuela, I'm calling on Congress to block him from using taxpayer dollars to launch a regime change war.
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Before the communists took over Venezuela was a jewel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:43 PM (CnLH3)

358 Damnedable autocorrect!

Posted by: Chairface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:43 PM (ZfTMG)

359 Debby-- all's well with BIL. He's fixed up & headed home. I did *not* need to drive out there today. Thank God. Roads are good and weather is unseasonably warm, so it wouldn't have been SO bad, but I'm no longer the Road Queen of my misspent youth, haha.

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:45 PM (rdVOm)

360 Well, this has been a busy buzzy ONT chat. Gotta go now. Can't wake up in the morning if I don't go to sleep.

See you later. In time.
https://youtu.be/52Imasc8Zw8

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - all in due time, my dear, all in due time at December 10, 2025 11:45 PM (zKAC0)

361 Hmm. Can never go wrong with a crockpot of Lil Smokies in BBQ sauce. I'll bring that.
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I earnestly believe God Himself has a sense of humor. I also believe, with no basis, that God sometimes despite being God is mildly surprised with what we humans come up with. I think God Himself's first reaction to Lil Smokies in BBQ sauce was "Ok...I didn't see that one coming...its way better than I imagined."

Forgive me for my heresy.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:46 PM (Cjcf6)

362 'Night, mindful!

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:46 PM (rdVOm)

363 Grok, Democrat foreign interventions beginning 1993, Bill Clinton forward.

https://tinyurl.com/ym2xndwu

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:48 PM (CnLH3)

364 Forgive me for my heresy.
Posted by: Crusader
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I think you made a fair point... Uh-oh...

(not Catholic, but maybe I should *confess* anyway?)

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

365 enator Chris Van Hollen@ChrisVanHollen . 7h

As Trump continues to manufacture a cover story for armed conflict with Venezuela, I'm calling on Congress to block him from using taxpayer dollars to launch a regime change war.
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Cover story? So many anti-American politicians in Congress.

And this mf'er can tweet that with a straight face wihile voting to send Ukraine billions more on top of the 140 billion we've already given. Ukraine who completed a coup with our help.

Talk about cover stories.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:50 PM (KDPiq)

366 354 Apparently New Jersey has a "medically assisted suicide" law now?

You know what's not "medical"? "Assisting" people commit suicide. Every damned individual who lifted a finger to make this happen deserves a lot more than just being called out for it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (Cjcf6)
____________________

Well now...that explains something I was curious about. NJ recently had an aggressive effort to push through legislation that would change the state from an "Opt In" organ donation to "Opt-Out" organ donation.

What this means is currently you have to sign up to donate organs. But, in changing to Opt-Out, you would be required to remove yourself from default donation.

Why is this important? Well, consider that Canada has the MAID program for assisted suicide. Canada now leads the world in organ donations resulting from Euthanasia. There is mucho dinero to be made on organ donation from a bunch of different parties. Opt Out increases the "stock"...so once again...follow the money, and you have your ghoul.

Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:51 PM (dIske)

367 Not to go all QDoba, but this is interesting article from the Max Planck Society

Reddit field experiment examines what distinguishes lurkers from power users

https://tinyurl.com/5ddvmet7

Online discussions are often dominated by a small group of active users, while the majority remain silent. This imbalance can distort perceptions of public opinion and fuel polarization. The question is to understand why a small minority are highly active while the majority remain silent—and what that means for perceptions of public opinion.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:52 PM (rbvCR)

368 Ace and Musk have retweeted this fellow.

Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal . 6h
"CHINA'S CARIBBEAN OIL REFINERY IS THE REAL REASON TRUMP IS CIRCLING VENEZUELA WITH CARRIER GROUPS"

China built a massive refinery in the Caribbean to process Venezuela's ultra-heavy crude after U.S. sanctions.

Now Beijing refines it on-site, skips the Atlantic crossing, and pockets the profit.

Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou just dropped the quiet part out loud on stream:

"If you want to know when America is serious about attacking a country, always watch for naval movements.

A month ago, I said 'no invasion of Venezuela' because we hadn't sent one. Then the USS Gerald R. Ford and 11 warships showed up.

Now we're serious

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:53 PM (CnLH3)

369 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)

I'm praying it goes well, Teresa.

Posted by: GWB at December 10, 2025 11:53 PM (01WzZ)

370 https://youtu.be/mgD1kBRLh5k

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:54 PM (rdVOm)

371 Seems like everybody is making cookies, I'll bring a pot of meatballs and a big tray of chicken wings on Saturday.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 11:35 PM (0nHVk)

DDS -- Hello!!

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:55 PM (Wc8sE)

372 357 "310 His face on the Moon?

Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)"

I kinda had that idea first you bastards!
Posted by: Chainface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:42 PM (ZfTMG)

Give me a 'C'!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:56 PM (xcxpd)

373 That6h could part of the answer to Kindletot's question.

Now we're serious.

We're not at war with Venezuela. We don't buy their oil anymore. The drugs transiting Venezuela are Colombian/Ecuadorian headed to Europe, not America.The Indians and the Chinese built new refineries to handle Venezuelan oil, and they ship the oil there.

The Chinese are swimming in money.

They decided instead of shipping the Venezuelan oil all the way to China, they'll just build the refinery in the Caribbean, refine it right there, and ship it out from the Caribbean.

And the United States doesn't like that."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:57 PM (CnLH3)

374 Lest we forget, Hugo Chavez nationalized the oil industry and surrounded the 14 billion dollar Exxon Mobil oil refinery with military personnel, and gave them 120 days to get the fuck out of the county. I wonder how many Americans are ignorant of this fact? 99.9% I would guess!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:00 AM (CnLH3)

375 The question is to understand why a small minority are highly active while the majority remain silent—and what that means for perceptions of public opinion.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:52 PM (rbvCR)

This isn't difficult: The small minority are highly active because we're mouthy. It's not bloody rocket science.

Posted by: RickZ at December 11, 2025 12:00 AM (gKDq2)

376 Here is something that caught me by surprise.

Back in 2020, the IIRG was going to kidnap an American citizen who was born in Iran, stuff her on a boat, take her to Venezuela, and then fly her to Tehran to make her vanish.

Luckily the FBI was not asleep this time or working for the other side. They stopped the plot by relocating the woman.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Iran has Magic Dirt too.
I did not know that.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 11, 2025 12:01 AM (/lPRQ)

377 Itinerant Alley Butcher, I love the idea of repurposing the Crazy Horse rock carving. Has that ever reached completion?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:04 AM (0nHVk)

378 My wife took all of the left over Halloween candy and made cookies, Snicker, Twix, M&M's Million Dollar Bars, Reeses PBC, etc.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 12:06 AM (XV/Pl)

379 Well hey, Doof, can I buy you a drink?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:07 AM (0nHVk)

380 @DOGEai_tx . 6h
...
The Regarding Venezuela, US naval deployments aren't about regime change—they're enforcing hemispheric sovereignty under the Monroe Doctrine 2.0.

China's refinery gambit in the Caribbean is economic warfare, exploiting Venezuela's collapsed state to bypass sanctions and control energy flows. Every barrel processed there funds Beijing's aggression and cartel pipelines poisoning our streets.

Strategic deterrence isn't optional; it's essential to prevent hostile powers from turning our backyard into a launchpad for chaos. Weakness invites predation—strength secures peace.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:08 AM (CnLH3)

381
I think Trump (and Rubio -- he's a big player in this, too) want to do a regime change without firing a shot.

Venezuela is a hub for all sorts of anti-US subversion by our enemies, Chicoms, Iran, globohomo, etc. This is Trump asserting the Monroe Doctrine, call it the Donroe Doctrine. Stay out of our hemisphere, you fuckers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:10 AM (w6EFb)

382 Wasn't it Jessie Jackson who rather hilariously introduced the notion of a "serial" hinger strike (I'll go without eating lunch, and then you go without eating dinner, etc)?

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 12:10 AM (2L+MU)

383 Best wishes, Teresa. God bless you and yours, and speed you to a full recovery.

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 12:11 AM (2L+MU)

384 382 "hunger" not "hinger".

Sigh...Measure twice, cut once.

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 12:12 AM (2L+MU)

385 Well hey, Doof, can I buy you a drink?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:07 AM (0nHVk)

I'd be honored. Bourbon. Neat. Highest proof they have here tonight!

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 12:12 AM (Wc8sE)

386 *Wild Turkey 101 for Doof*

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)

387 Smartest thing Central and South American countries can do is, get with the program.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:16 AM (CnLH3)

388 jim - prayers up for Wonderful Monday ...

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 11, 2025 12:17 AM (3ZUWJ)

389

John Candy had a bit on an old episode of SCTV where he was going to eat continuously until there was peace in the Middle East.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 12:19 AM (pkeXY)

390 *Wild Turkey 101 for Doof*
Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)

*nods and smiles*

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 12:19 AM (Wc8sE)

391 372 357 "310 His face on the Moon?

Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)"

I kinda had that idea first you bastards!
Posted by: Chairface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:42 PM (ZfTMG)

Give me a 'C'!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:56 PM (xcxpd)

Makes me proud that my then 12 year old son wanted to be Chairface for Halloween last year even though no one at school would get it. Unfortunately, met by my wife's Tick strenghed eye-roll and 'No'...

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 11, 2025 12:20 AM (ZfTMG)

392 Just reading that while Cuba has publicly condemned the imperial US military build up, they are privately talking about "what the region will look like without Maduro".

They've already got the message.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (w6EFb)

I think Trump could pull Cuba out of Communism. Practice some heavy-duty carrot and stick diplomacy with Cuba's current leaders. Offer them safe haven in the USA if they abandon Communism, and hold "free" elections to put a Trump-approved figure in control. Then back the new guy to the hilt with money and supplies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:26 AM (npFr7)

393 Anybody a fan of Centerville Pies ?

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 11, 2025 12:29 AM (3ZUWJ)

394 yRusty, my oldest went as Buddy Ryan when he was in the 4th grade, nobody got it, but he was happy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:30 AM (0nHVk)

395 Venezuelan crude IIRC has a very high Sulphur content.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

More effort to refine it, but the pure sulfur byproduct is an important industrial feedstock, and has market value. There used to be giant blocks of sulfur next to gas plants in Alberta that processed "sour" gas into sweet gas. Gone now; the sulfur was all sold.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:32 AM (npFr7)

396
Well, well. Sweden's Princess Sophia has an Epstein connection:

https://is.gd/76vR38

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:34 AM (w6EFb)

397 The Monroe Doctrine is definitely in play here based on China instead of European powers interfering in the Caribbean /Latin America hemisphere.

Posted by: No Soup For you !! at December 11, 2025 12:34 AM (KDPiq)

398 *clocks out*

G'night, horde. It's been a very long day.

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 12:34 AM (rdVOm)

399 I suggested El Seed, since he had an actual head. But no, years of crazy costumes finally broke my wife.

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 11, 2025 12:35 AM (ZfTMG)

400 Off soup Nazi sock

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 12:35 AM (KDPiq)

401 That was supposed to be tRusty, but I occasionally have very fat fingers here late a night, I am noticing real changes with my vision as I get older.

Doof, the honor is mine, and thanks for the h/t the other day, made me smile.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:36 AM (0nHVk)

402 Well, I guess I'm done for the night. It's bourbon time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 12:38 AM (snZF9)

403 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:32 AM (npFr7)

We have a city in SW Louisiana named Sulphur . Yes sulphur was once mined there.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 12:39 AM (KDPiq)

404 I saw a vid that supposedly of the outflow of a Cuban oil well. It was so thick that the workers standing at the end of the pipe were cutting it with machetes as it came out like it was some unending can of jellied cranberry sauce.

Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

I was on a job with a Canadian drilling engineer who worked some wells in Cuba, and he told me about witnessing that. Some of the Cuban wells tap reservoirs in porous volcanic rock that were fed from hydrocarbon-rich shales out in the basin.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:39 AM (npFr7)

405 Make the Western Hemisphere Great Again.

Exxon is the only US refinery that cracks Venezuelan tar.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:42 AM (CnLH3)

406 That sounds like some of the Venezuelan fields, too. People who say "Venezuela has more oil than the Saudis" don't understand that a lot of it is thick hard to deal with glop like that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:30 PM (4IClK)

The oil in the Athabaska "tar" sands is like that too. Took a huge capital investment to build the mines, and separating plants, and the upgrader that hydrogenates the heavy crude, and makes a lighter sweet crude with it, but the resource is so huge, it was worth the effort.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:43 AM (npFr7)

407 Dear Santa,

I want a Joe Diffie mullet for Christmas. I'll leave some cookies and moonshine out for you and Leroy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 12:48 AM (1zOXE)

408 Smartmatic voting machines were invented by Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate, who founded the company in 2000. They initially focused on developing secure voting technology in response to the challenges faced during the 2000 U.S. presidential election
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Smartmatic was founded in 2000 by three engineers: Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate, who are Venezuelan. However, Smartmatic is now a UK-based company

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:54 AM (CnLH3)

409 The Independents Dilemma@IndieDilemma . 10m

Trump wants all the Smartmatic and Dominion voting machine corruption exposed before the 2026 election so the Dems can't cheat as much anymore!

Venezuela was the center of that as the Smartmatic machines were set up in order for Maduro to steal his elections( which he did in the last election, look it up) and then they used them in the USA

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:54 AM (CnLH3)

410 I want a Joe Diffie mullet for Christmas. I'll leave some cookies and moonshine out for you and Leroy.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 12:48 AM (1zOXE)

I'm sure some here would just settle for hair for Christmas, no special cut needed.

Posted by: RickZ at December 11, 2025 12:55 AM (gKDq2)

411 I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

It became true after Sally Struthers showed up there...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 11, 2025 01:06 AM (l5srl)

412 2006 CNN REPORT of voting machine FRAUD using Smartmatic/Dominion voting machines in VENEZUELA.

This is the real focus of us being in Venezuela. They helped OVERTHROW OUR GOVT AND 71 OTHERS
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https://tinyurl.com/yk3hae74

youtube.com/watch?v=PJpjrgPrdHY

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:07 AM (CnLH3)

413 Well, past 2300 here. Going to call it a night. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 01:11 AM (npFr7)

414 'Night AOP and JQ and Horde, I need to be horizontal, at least until the sinuses kick in. I am going to enjoy a few last sips and sit and behold my Christmas tree.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 01:14 AM (0nHVk)

415 I wonder if polynikes chose a specific era of rhe Strip?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Was there a big ferris wheel thingy on the west side of the strip at any time? I don't remember that but there have been long periods, like 10+ years, where I didn't hit LV. Today, there's the High Roller, but that's right behind Paris.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 11, 2025 01:42 AM (49MXB)

416
ONT is oh so boring
ONT has us snoring
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Maj. Snoozefest at December 11, 2025 01:52 AM (O1WpD)

417
Anybody a fan of Centerville Pies ?
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic

==============

I'm not sure. Maybe I want to be?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 11, 2025 02:05 AM (1N/bM)

418 ONT is oh so boring
ONT has us snoring
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Maj. Snoozefest at December 11, 2025 01:52 AM (O1WpD)

yup, paint is dry.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 02:28 AM (snZF9)

419 yup, paint is dry.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 02:28 AM (snZF9)

If it's lead-based, we can eat it and get special powers.

Posted by: I'm so tired at December 11, 2025 02:54 AM (O1WpD)

420 24 ...Oh, and surgery is scheduled for 2:30 pm and should last 3-4 hours if all goes according to plan. So you probably won't get an update from Paul until tomorrow evening sometime - didn't want anyone to worry too soon!

Thank you SO MUCH for all of the prayers - we really do appreciate it! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)

Teresa, if you are still here, and even if you aren't, you are always in my prayers, dear heart. Paul as well. He is a rock. But even rocks need love.

All is well, all is well, and all manner of things are well, in the sight of Our Lord.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 02:55 AM (6Bc88)

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Posted by: Anonymous at December 11, 2025 03:06 AM (NxtE8)

422 We're all gonna be rich!

Posted by: spam delicious spam at December 11, 2025 03:32 AM (O1WpD)

423 Oh, BTW, polynikes, I love your painting of the Las Vegas Strip! We will be going there in a little over two months - we have never been there, and we are quite looking forward to our trip 😊❤

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 03:38 AM (SRRAx)

424

Posted by:
at December 11, 2025 03:47 AM (1OGkI)

425 423 Oh, BTW, polynikes, I love your painting of the Las Vegas Strip! We will be going there in a little over two months - we have never been there, and we are quite looking forward to our trip 😊❤
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 03:38 AM (SRRAx)

Don't stay too long. I find that about three days of LV is more than enough, if you are on or near the strip.

Off the strip is different. Tours to Hoover Dam, hikes in the desert parks, etc., make it tolerable.

But the level of pathetic miserable people tends to wear anyone down over time. Plus the constant smell of weed and desperation is off-putting. Probably not my favorite place, if you couldn't tell!

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 11, 2025 03:48 AM (6Bc88)

426 2006 CNN REPORT of voting machine FRAUD using Smartmatic/Dominion voting machines in VENEZUELA.

This is the real focus of us being in Venezuela. They helped OVERTHROW OUR GOVT AND 71 OTHERS
---

https://tinyurl.com/yk3hae74

youtube.com/watch?v=PJpjrgPrdHY

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:07 AM (CnLH3)
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I remember reading this after the elections on some X account whom everyone thought was crazy. The guy got a lot of other things right, too.

I recall posting it here in comments back than but I don't recall if Ace or others were willing the publicize it at the time.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 03:51 AM (sQBXy)

427 I remember reading this after the elections...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 03:51 AM (sQBXy)
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2020 elections.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 11, 2025 03:54 AM (sQBXy)

428 That time of the day again

Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 03:56 AM (Ia/+0)

429

Posted by:

at December 11, 2025 03:58 AM (tbn6Q)

430 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

431 428 That time of the day again
Posted by: Skip at December 11, 2025 03:56 AM (Ia/+0)

You say that like it's a bad thing?

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

432 >>>Bonus points if you know why an "E" was added to the toilet bomb.

E-missions?

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:31 AM (RuTUS)

433 103 The head strapped to the wing pylon was used to illustrate the bomb shortage that was occurring while LBJ and McNamara was saying there was no bomb shortage.

The "E" is for excellence. Can't you just feel the sarcasm for it being placed on the toilet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (2GVsD)

Posted by: m at December 11, 2025 04:33 AM (RuTUS)

434 Silver at $62.50 per oz. I point this out not because Silver's price in itself is important, but because it shows how badly the U.S. dollar has degraded during my life time. 4 pre-1965 quarters plus 4 pre-1965 dimes = 1 oz of silver.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 11, 2025 05:49 AM (Da7Vv)

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